Subscriptions - spoiling the surprise. (Hey, Rachel!)
Yes, I know this is, technically, feedback, but I thought other people might want to know about it as well.
Did you know that anybody that subscribes to you can see all your projects, not just the published ones?
If you did, good for you. I didn't, and now it turns out that quite a few people have been peeping at projects that I may not finish for some time, if at all, and all without me knowing. One recent planned project I had high hopes for has just had a setback today, and now may not happen. Subscribers may have been looking forward to it, and I may now be disappointing people without being able to prevent it.
I'm not saying that anybody who subscribes to me at the moment would spoil the surprise for other members, but there is always the chance that somebody could spoil things. I think many of you reading this will know the kind of person I mean, even an actual example.
That means that there is at least one surprise project out there (not one of mine) that could be spoiled by what is probably just a line of dodgy script.
So, if you are planning any surprise projects, don't start writing them up yet, unless you have no subscribers, and if you are reading this and able to fix the bug, please, fix it quickly.
UPDATE: Link to proper "feedback" thread
Discussions
11 years ago
Kiteman, shame you can't tell, as far as I know it's only ones you made since they subscribed because I was suddenly getting comments on unpublished 'ibles, thankfully the top secret ones are hidden for now, I'm not completely sure about it all though since there was a comment made on a test 'ible but only by one subscriber of mine who may have been on before then...
Reply 11 years ago
I've just had a look around my existing subscriptions, and I can't see things I used to. I wonder if it's fixed?
Reply 11 years ago
. Now all the iBles showing up in my subs are published.
Reply 11 years ago
Seems so, I asked Adrian to have a look at mine, all the unfinished projects are invisible again.
Phew!
Reply 11 years ago
Ah safety at last...
11 years ago
Go to a published version of an ible of yours. Go to the stats box, click subscribers, it will display whom is subscribed to you.
Reply 11 years ago
kay! thnx
Reply 11 years ago
Why did you remove the original question?
I strikes me that some valuable members may not be able to check who is subscribing to them because they haven't got a published project (remember how long it was before Goodhart produced an ible?).
Reply 11 years ago
. As a workaround, I think it will work if they create a dummy iBle, but don't publish it. This won't work if the subscription is for a specific iBle, but it appears to me that all subs are tied to the user. Worth a try.
Reply 11 years ago
If they what again?
Reply 11 years ago
. Create an empty iBle but don't publish it. . Or start a topic.
Reply 11 years ago
OIC! To see who is subscribed to you. I thought you meant to keep people from viewing your unpublished ibles...I was sitting here trying to figure out how that would help, lol.
Reply 11 years ago
. If you can't run with the big dogs, you need to stay under the porch. heehee
Reply 11 years ago
Rsssssssssssssssssssp :P Just misunderstood what the point was.
Reply 11 years ago
forums work too
Reply 11 years ago
Hasty thing, which didn't work due to fast replies! ;-)
11 years ago
I don't subscribe to people. This is ibles, not myspace
Reply 11 years ago
I feel it makes it easier to keep up with friends projects....
Reply 11 years ago
So bitter for being so young! :P
Reply 11 years ago
Hehe, your not the only one that says that
Reply 11 years ago
This is Kiteman. How can you not subscribe?
11 years ago
teehee
subscribes to kiteman to check his unpublished.
no, i seriously subscribed to you, but unsubscribed 5 seconds later
Reply 11 years ago
the problem is the 39 others
11 years ago
Update: Added a link
11 years ago
Hmmmm, I could see this being exploited in many different ways....
Not cool...
Lftndbt runs off to check Kipkays unpublished to steal his ideas"
11 years ago
Ahh... But peeking was so fun!
Reply 11 years ago
Draws curtains.
Reply 11 years ago
takes a clear marble and a piece of paper...
Reply 11 years ago
Gets confused...
Reply 11 years ago
rolls paper into tube and adds marble, creating peep-scope, peeps through curtains...
GREAT SPEG ALMIGHTY!!!
Reply 11 years ago
Crash....
11 years ago
Dearie me, I am glad I moved a few things off site...
Reply 11 years ago
Lol, I just went through and removed some... =D
11 years ago
oh dear... does this count for collaborations also?
Reply 11 years ago
My thoughts exactly, and yes, it does.
Reply 11 years ago
yes, i just double checked that. Not good, good thing the member in questions isnt 'super' popular. I cant see it on the collaberators pages.
11 years ago
. A Private checkbox, such that only the author and collabs would be able to access an iBle? . . Subscribing to users is a nice feature (I just started using it today), but I can see where it may not be good to see everything. Eg, it would have made keeping the t-shirt project impossible to hide from Goodhart for so long. . There's some potential for abuse, but I would hate to lose subscribing to users. A few controls, such as a private checkbox, should nip a lot of abuse in the bud. Maybe even a "Don't let these users subscribe to me" list.
Reply 11 years ago
Just keeping unpublished projects from turning up in subscription notifications would solve it.
Reply 11 years ago
. ROFLMAO Sometimes I forget to KISS
Reply 11 years ago
~~ keeping ~~