AW/privacy experiment

[fishbulb]

I'm curious as to how searchable proboards is. Here's a recent picture of J that I haven't posted anywhere else yet (except for my non-shared photobucket account so I could upload it here). I've set my PB privacy settings to only registered users can see my profile and activity. If you're bored or curious, you can try to search for it on the interwebs to see how secure PB is (or isn't). If not, enjoy the cuteness!

[bennieangel]

Did you search & did it show up?

[fishbulb]

I haven't tried yet. I want to do it from my work computer so it won't have a memory cache of this pic or these links.

[bandteacher]

I'm too lazy to search but that pic is adorbs.

[kewii]

I searched because I was curious. A bunch of people's avatars came up. Some siggies. A picture or two, but not that one.

[RandomName]

I was curious too. Like mentioned a few avatars come up: babycaps, @highpeak, bunny, @babylentilbean that I can identify. I'm mobile so that was only a quick look.

Eta: OP I didn't see your LO

[lincbeesmom]

I didn't see your picture when I searched! That's good!

[g33kyg1rly]

It can actually take a while for Google to index stuff (weeks or more sometimes). It depends how active a site is how often Google scans it for new content to index, and this site became super active just recently. I wouldn't count on the fact that images aren't showing up yet to mean that they won't later.

Which brings up a question:

Out of curiosity, now that we have "our own" board off TB, is there a reason why we can't make the boards (or at least the threads), only visible once you login? That would prevent Google from indexing any of it, and I think we'd all be comfortable sharing a lot more. (tags NariaDreaming @theorphania wordsy)

[bsouls]

There is an option to make your posts only visible to registered users, but I haven't logged out to see what that looks like. Like, if someone with that setting makes a thread - is the whole thread not visible?

[bsouls]

Ok, I signed out and I can still view everything.

Nevermind, I misread the privacy settings - all the privacy setting allows for is for members only to see the profile - not your content. That would be a great feature.

[fishbulb]

Thanks for checking everyone! Good point though g33kyg1rly. I think I'll leave it up for a while and we'll see what happens.

[wordsy]

Jan 26, 2015 21:58:28 GMT -5 g33kyg1rly said:

It can actually take a while for Google to index stuff (weeks or more sometimes). It depends how active a site is how often Google scans it for new content to index, and this site became super active just recently. I wouldn't count on the fact that images aren't showing up yet to mean that they won't later.

Which brings up a question:

Out of curiosity, now that we have "our own" board off TB, is there a reason why we can't make the boards (or at least the threads), only visible once you login? That would prevent Google from indexing any of it, and I think we'd all be comfortable sharing a lot more. (tags NariaDreaming @theorphania wordsy)

This is a good question and something we have been talking about only a little. I think the idea is to remain open to new members and try to continue to build the community. That said, we have not made a decision about how to handle this idea except to say that we will remain public for now. As with everything else, we will talk more publicly about this stuff when we get to that point on our to-do list and welcome input from the membership. 

I know that sounds kinda (crappy) vague, and I do not mean it to. Just that our immediate to-do list is still in the "making the trains run on time" level, and that is a "what do we want the trains to look like" question. 

[RandomName]

Jan 27, 2015 9:08:42 GMT -5 @highpeak said:

Jan 26, 2015 17:58:09 GMT -5 RandomName said:

I was curious too. Like mentioned a few avatars come up: babycaps, @highpeak, bunny, @babylentilbean that I can identify. I'm mobile so that was only a quick look.

Eta: OP I didn't see your LO

Ok, out of curiosity, did you just google search usernames or (if you know them) real names? I'm not ok with my real name bringing this up, but my username is ok seeing as only people here know it anyway.

I googled variants of proboards, March 14, and BMB.

[Deleted]

Jan 27, 2015 0:05:33 GMT -5 wordsy said:

Jan 26, 2015 21:58:28 GMT -5 g33kyg1rly said:

It can actually take a while for Google to index stuff (weeks or more sometimes). It depends how active a site is how often Google scans it for new content to index, and this site became super active just recently. I wouldn't count on the fact that images aren't showing up yet to mean that they won't later.

Which brings up a question:

Out of curiosity, now that we have "our own" board off TB, is there a reason why we can't make the boards (or at least the threads), only visible once you login? That would prevent Google from indexing any of it, and I think we'd all be comfortable sharing a lot more. (tags NariaDreaming @theorphania wordsy)

This is a good question and something we have been talking about only a little. I think the idea is to remain open to new members and try to continue to build the community. That said, we have not made a decision about how to handle this idea except to say that we will remain public for now. As with everything else, we will talk more publicly about this stuff when we get to that point on our to-do list and welcome input from the membership. 

I know that sounds kinda (crappy) vague, and I do not mean it to. Just that our immediate to-do list is still in the "making the trains run on time" level, and that is a "what do we want the trains to look like" question. 

FTR I think this is fair not creepy. Personally I would like to see this site grow and continue to fuck the bump over by taking all its traffic!

Buuuuut-i'm a vindictive evil bitch