good enough to be frustrating
Somehow I got to this page after saving a post. I kinda understand it (the default to uploading is world-viewable?) but it's really hard to understand what it means and how i got here.
I made a friends-and-family post, and uploaded a picture while doing it. It should just be a friends-and-family pic.
and why does my post have to have a title?
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This is good feedback... So are you saying that if you upload a photo into a post, and then save a post as friends only, that you'd expect that when you save the post we'd change the privacy on the photo to match the post?
The particular warning you got is one that we thought long and hard about. The enclosure is "more open" than the post, which could be a problem (you accidentally put a photo in that you didn't want the world to see), but isn't necessarily a problem. ("Hey, friends -- check out my snarky comment on this public photo of mine.")
Oh, and the warnings definitely need better styling.
What do you expect to have happen?
I got a similar error when I had a world viewable picture (curry) in a friends only post. The tone of the error message suggested to me that I had made a mistake, not that I *may* have made a mistake. "Alert: Privacy Conflict" is too dire.
I'm not sure what I expect... I thought I'd uploaded this pic in the context of creating a post. (Meaning, I hadn't uploaded the photo at some prior point.) Because I was in that context, I didn't even read the privacy settings on the photo, I was just click-click-clicking until I could get back to finish what I was writing.
So, I'd actually probably not even want to be prompted for privacy on the photo if I'm inserting from within a post, and just have the system inherit my post's settings for the new photo.
If we *have* to have a message like this, I'd expect it to say:
Your post is viewable to your friends and family. -- and just so you know, the photo in that post is viewable to the whole world, not just your friends and family. If that's not a problem, cool, otherwise you can _change privacy settings on [photo name]_.
Just to keep replying to myself, it's not just that I don't want that message. It's if the message has to be there, it should be in the list of actions, as next steps, instead of like some weird scary popup. We can highlight the "just so you know" part if we really want to make sure to call attention to it.
Right now, if I had a typical spyware-laden machine, I'd read that box like one of those CLICK HERE popups.