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Move "Privacy State" setting into "Access" section

User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · World management · Created by Bladeswillfall
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privacy access configuration menu settings option options setting
I'm proposing the following:
  To summarise, I'd like to propose moving the world's "Privacy State" from the "Configuration" section into the "Access" section. Simple as that.

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

Given the icon for "Access" - a padlock, it makes sense to me that any privacy/security settings would be in here and not under "configuration".  

How does this feature request address the current situation?

It makes the site more user-friendly in my opinion and simultaneously more intuitive.

The Team's Response

Hello beans! Thank you all so much for contributing your thoughts on this.   Reading through your comments and both side of the argument I think that renaming the ACCESS to "Subscribers & Authors" will be a better idea to clear this out.   In addition I will move the privacy change selector on a more prominent place on the world configuration.   Once again thank you very much for your feedback.   UPDATE: All done will be deploying later on today.
Current score

19/300 Votes · +3050 points

Votes Cast

  • +300

    by ynix
    on 2021-10-25 19:09
    I'm always clicking on access whenever I want to change if a world if public or private.
  • +100

    by Kayne
    on 2021-10-24 07:47
  • +300

    by TheSneakyDestroyer
    on 2021-10-23 17:53
  • +100

    by SilverLeaves
    on 2021-10-17 20:51
  • +200

    by Shewstone Publishing
    on 2021-10-17 13:02
  • +50

    by allyziemage
    on 2021-10-15 22:10
    I agree this is ambiguous, but maybe renaming "Access" to like "Users" or something would be better? I always forget subscriber/author information is in "Access" personally.
  • +50

    by JebGodofJebs
    on 2021-10-14 10:59
  • +300

    by bladesmoss
    on 2021-10-13 14:27
  • +300

    by Game Master Guru
    on 2021-10-13 05:01
  • +100

    by Scalenex
    on 2021-10-13 04:24
  • +10

    by Hanhula
    on 2021-10-11 04:36
  • +300

    by ewarlock
    on 2021-10-11 03:32
  • +200

    by scholarmage
    on 2021-10-10 13:43
    When I opened my (private from the outset) world to take part in Summer Camp, I went hunting through the settings & was surprised to discover accessing the world was set in Configuration, instead of Access. A number of the settings are definitely not where I personally look for them intuitively, so I think this would be a step in the right direction.
  • +20

    by Vantaj
    on 2021-10-10 13:20
  • +20

    by Adcheryl
    on 2021-10-09 14:52
  • +300

    by DMFW
    on 2021-10-09 10:58
    Whilst access is more than just privacy, privacy definitely falls within access. If I didn't know where to find the privacy settings, I'd think of looking for it under access before configuration, so this makes sense to me.
  • +100

    by The Otherworlds
    on 2021-10-09 02:32
  • -100

    by amelianite
    on 2021-10-09 01:32
    I feel that moving it to "access" would be linking it to a subscriber group of some sort. That would not, in turn, put the "WORLD" into a private state. In "configuration" you are updating the world's status, such as the privacy state or the world description or genres. Meanwhile, "access" is more for subscribers, subscriber groups, and what type of author you are to a world.
  • +100

    by 2b2t
    on 2021-10-09 00:23
  • +300

    by Bladeswillfall
    on 2021-10-08 22:15