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Private posts on a public community
I use my Imzy blog as a kind of journal among other things, in which I sometimes write about my daily life. Some of these posts are more personal than others, and there are things that, while I don't mind sharing them with the few people who have joined my community, I don't particularly want to share with the entire world.
I don't want to make my community private, but I would love to have the option to restrict some posts to members only. An even better feature would be the ability to create a list of people who are allowed to view private posts, but that may harder to implement.
Thanks for reading! I believe this feature would be useful for many people.




I second this. I would love to have this kind of feature available.
Definitely agree. The ability to manage the privacy level of individual posts would be fantastic.
Fourthing! And a related question: I know we can't make private communities public, but what about the reverse?
You can turn any community private whenever you want. It's in your community settings. You can also switch back and forth between public and restricted. You just can't betray someone's trust by making something they said privately suddenly public.
Can you tell me more about how you would like this would work? For example, restricting it to members only doesn't work well if it's a public community, since anyone could join it and then view those posts.
If it's a specific list of people, do you put those people into that list, or can they request access? Are you choosing from the named members of your community, or can you add just anyone?
I think it would be best to have both options. I'd like to be able to manually add people I trust and I'm familiar with, but if someone wanted to access my private posts for whatever reason (like, say, we have become friendly acquaintances, and I haven't thought of adding them to the list yet, but they enjoy reading what I post and would like to know more about me), they could send me a request that I would be free to accept or deny.
I feel it'd make more sense if only members of a community could be added to the list; after all, if someone is invested enough to want to read private posts in a community, it must mean they are already familiar with the blogger (or the subject matter the community is about, for those communities that aren't blogs).
EDIT: Thinking about this now, I wonder if it would be better to have this option available for personal blogs only? Is there a context in which a community about a tv show, for example, would need private posts as an option? And then how would the leaders of such a community decide who gets to be on the list? I'm just throwing these thoughts out there, curious to know what other people think!
This sounds like a great idea - some granularity of access control would be excellent.
I totally agree! I would love this sort of feature.