Welcome to the new Boards.ie platform - Version 1.0 :)

Hi NH. Yes, thanks, I found it in the meantime, it was not too obvious. I think just 'https://boards.ie/profile/preferences' works also. :)

Posting here is not on a completely public forum but joining up to a (semi)private forum/business... The difference between standing on a box in the middle of town and shouting versus going somewhere to talk with friends and foes 😆 indoors at a meeting where we all sign in and there are at least guiding principles/rules which you sign up to at the start.

Yes some comments make it out into the public domain but an entire transcript of the meeting and all previous meetings going back years doesnt normally unless decided/voted on in advance..but your profile like your address/email etc is not normally given out to the public along with absolutely everything you have ever said/written in one go. etc.

Most sites eg fakebk allow limiited public access to posts.. to see them all you have to join up and even then you personally choose how public within that setting your profile is and postings are.

What was most annoying in the changeover was the default public setting on your profile page rather than

a)it should have been private as a default and then you choose

or

b) a notice posted when you log on to the new site for the first time telling you of the change from the older site allowing you then to choose.

The site before the changeover allowed the public to see a basic profile/no email and a couple of recent posts not years worth of anyones ramblings! But most importantly regarding gdpr your email?The changes re showing more of the actual posting may possibly or not come under section 6 of the gdpr if I remember correctly but good business customer care practise would have been at least an eyes up before changing.

Anyhow it has been brought up now and people can decide for themselves to make their profile private or not as there is no in between option...yet?

GDPR is about data protection especially but not limited to identifying/personal data whether a once off or the possiblility of identifying some one from aggreate information like posts. It also explains the business/organisations/data controllers duty of care to the data one holds/controls etc.

Some people choose what to post depending on the above..since the boards changeover the profile page and the contents within became more public so I choose for my profile to become less public. before the change if one wanted you could put previous or older posts in folders in your profile page or allow just a tegistered user see them in an aggrated form.Yes a non signed up person could still search individually a post but they were not all handed on a plate in one go to anononymous member of the general public ( insert cake emoji😊)

It would have been nice to have a heads up on the enhanced general public access nature of our profile pages.

ps..Maybe boards could clarify what is exactly public on your profile page as only one option on edit. Maybe that would put minds at ease especially re email and maybe bring back folders for old posts?

As a test, I signed out. Both my profile and Kaisers is same as if I was signed in. No email address. Speckles remains as private. Do we all need to be “private “. Would stop the trawling for old posts thing that used to happen.

apologies to Kaiser and Speckles but you were 2 closest to hand in the discussion.

But more to it than that. Click on speckle’s profile picture

Was tested and i can receive PM with private set profile

You go here and make it private

everyone got it

Think it's time to cut them some slack. They are trying to address the issues.

...one of those would be if this global notification would come to your "notifications" or PM .

If only this were reddit so I could gild this comment.

It appeared on every thread header (scroll up the page , i know) or under your profile, no PM, no notification

Thanks again only time I'd have seen that is when this or another thread rolled over to a new page. Even went looking on the home page and nothing.