It shouldn’t fall on us, the idea to attrack others to this place for our comments.
Like, that’s what a team should do by promoting this place on the main site or the scheduled emails. You can always mention on your profile about it or whenever you interact with other postcrossers about our community here.
In the old forum, it used to show up like some parts of the forum were open to anyone to look into but for other ones, we would have to login to access. Is it wrong to request the same type of attention and privacy that we once had?
Hmm, that’s interesting. I am certainly not saying that you are wrong to request more privacy. Pray forgive me for being a relatively new user; I never experienced the old forum.
The feature you are suggesting sounds like an ability for the forum users to customise the level of readability of their posts? Like in Facebook, you can set your posts to be open to everyone, to friends only, to friends of friends, etc. There is more control on who can read a given post.
I don’t know how easy it is to implement this kind of customisability, it would be left to the Admin team to answer …
I believe I can not be the only one who thought when they signed up that the forum posts can only be seen by other logged in users…? I mean, that’s kind of the thing with forums - they are usually only available to logged in users. If not, they should be proper marked, or give you some kind of message saying “you are now entering the open part of the forum, what you write here can be seen by people who are not logged in” or something.
I have experienced online stalkers, and I try to be careful with what I share, but it’s a jungle to navigate in.
I did this last night. I logged out and googled my user name. My posts were visible.
I (wrongly) assumed only logged in users could see our posts. I have privacy concerns due to a reasons I don’t deem necessary to define. While I’m careful what I post on the internet, I don’t feel everything needs to be available in a Google search. For that reason, I will restrict what I post from this point forward. This includes my responses in RRs to what people have written me to protect their privacy as well. You have the option to only allow logged in users to see your main prostcrossing profile. Silly of me to assume that applied to the forums.
I also just tried it from two different browsers in a separate system where I’ve never used PostCrossing. My tags and RR posts come up. So as the OP said, our forum posts are public.
Do you have additional information or can one of the mods comment on this including a timeline? It’s quite a concern and I think there should be transparency about the process.
are not visible on google