We have now added "Limited" as a post visibility / audience option, which acts as an intermediate between the other already two existing options of "Public" and "Private" post visibility.
Private (Friends/Circle only) posts have always been completely inaccessible to Google / Search Crawlers / Bots.
The new "Limited Posts" will also cause your post to be inaccessible to Google / Crawlers, as well as anyone else outside of your audience scope of: Friends/Circle + Relevant Users (those you interact with the most).
The current 3 Modes of Post Visibility, available to all SW users:
1) Public = Maximum reach of your shared content
2) Limited = Reduced reach, limited to Friends/Circle + Relevant Users (Cannot be Seen/Indexed by Google/Crawlers)
3) Private = Friends-Only (Cannot be Seen/Indexed by Google/Crawlers)
You can access this "Limited Visibility" feature when:
A) Creating a New Post
Simply click on the default "Public" button in the "Visibility" portion (Step 3), to define the post visibility / audience, if you so wish.
B) Editing an Existing Post (New) ☀️
1) Click on the small ✏️ Edit [Pencil] Icon, near the top of your existing post.
2) Then click the "Edit Visibility" option on the resulting prompt.
🔔 Available for a Limited Time Only:
Limit Posts Audience of All Existing Posts
To assist users in adjusting their post visibility settings more quickly, to their preferred general choice,
we have now made available for a LIMITED TIME, the ability to change ALL of your Post's visibility settings, in one action.
This can be done by using the "Limit Posts Audience" option, found at the Account Settings page:
Please note that this limited time feature DOES put additional heavy strain on our operating servers, to process a large number of internal changes consecutively.
For that reason, this option will only be available temporarily, for 1 week only.
Note: Changing the visibility of an existing post that is already Indexed in Google's search results, will not cause "Immediate Changes" to Google's list of results. This action of updating the results is only controlled by Google.
While changing your post to "Limited" or "Private" visibility will prevent Google from accessing / seeing your post, it can take some time (days or weeks) before Google updates their search results, and de-indexes your page completely from their listings.
We hope that these changes will accommodate more of our users unique preferences, and that it makes Similar Worlds more easier and comfortable to use and understand.
Kind regards! - The SW Team
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Is there an icon which indicates that my post has a limited visibility? I tried it out, but unless I check through the edit button, I do not see a difference between public and limited.
I don't need to see it for other users, but for my own posts it would be convenient.
@Classified I tried it too from the link above. I wonder if we broke it already. Mine was processing and came up with a notification that something went wrong.
@Classified Thank you. So you've been able to limit your posts. Do they show up limited so it's easy to tell they are? I went through the process, but I think it failed and now I don't have the option to do them all at once. Like you mentioned though, I'll wait for a little bit and try again later. :)
@JerseyGal The option is gone? 😮😮 Okie don't wait too long, because it's only available for one week. Maybe check tomorrow already and if it's still gone ask the admins.
If I edit the visibility of a post manually, I see it's set on limited, but I cannot tell otherwise.
@Classified It's so weird. It was like a glitch with mine and I broke it, Lol. So my pinned posts were on limited, so I switched those back to public as those I don't mind being searched, found, plus I have a lot not in my circle commenting on them.
Then I continue down to some other recent posts and they are public. If I go back to my first posts in 2016, they are limited. 🤷😂
