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).
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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)
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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.
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🔔 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.
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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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Sorry SW these are all terrible ideas - I will probably stay but I feel uncomfortable with all these things, especially our posts being able to be viewed by people outside of this site. Awful decision and a temporary fix isn't going to help one bit.
@OogieBoogie ummmmmmmmmmmm if I don't have to click anything then that would be a whole lot easier and I don't see any choice to put something limited on this reply to you.. so.. my response is potentially visible to anyone who runs a specific search that leads to this thread?
I will not be posting any stories or questions on here from now on - I didn't post a lot anyway but I need, because of my profession to be extremely careful of my digital footprint.
@OogieBoogie I know you meant well. It's fine you tried to help (although the 🤷♀️ might be seen in another way) it's just I have to be very careful and while I don't post anything that's not true or that I am ashamed of, I DO have to not be searchable if possible. I am very, very disappointed - it's completely ruined it here for me and I will now have to be much more limited on here
I'm not totally keen on this change. But life does that. I dont agree with it, but then, it's like your neighbour cutting down their hedge... You may have liked the privacy, but it's not your hedge.
All, we can do now use the adaptions they gave us. And be more conscious.
You could always delete your replies on others posts if you weren't sure.
Oh, and the reason I go um.. Is because I type as I speak, and i try to use emojis as expressively honestly as I can.
There wasn't any sarcasm in my reply at all. I was just to trying to be helpful.
@Nuno if this is an issue for people, having their replies possibly seen on google... Would you be able to have an icon visable on posts that indicates the privacy level of a post, you know like the moods?
