Default visibility of email addresses

Stream: Zulip meta

[Sebastian Ullrich]

You probably received an email from Zulip as well that users can now set visibility of their email address different from the organization default. I don't think we ever discussed what that default should be. Making them visible to everyone seems completely unnecessary to me. What do you think?

[Sebastian Ullrich]

These are the settings from the Zulips I'm registered with:

Coq: Only admins can view your email address
HoTT: Admins, moderators, members and guests can view your email address
Lean: Admins, moderators, members and guests can view your email address
rust-lang: Admins and moderators can view your email address
Types: Admins, moderators, members and guests can view your email address

[Bulhwi Cha]

In my opinion, email addresses should be invisible to members and guests by default.

[Mario Carneiro]

admins + moderators sounds good to me as well

[Sebastian Ullrich]

I've made it so

[Eric Rodriguez]

this seems to _not change existing settings_ so I think if people want that to take effect then change that individually

[Mario Carneiro]

oof, that's a problem

[Mario Carneiro]

I don't think we intended to grandfather in all 1000-some users with that setting

[Mario Carneiro]

...or did I misunderstand? I've never touched this setting on my own account and it says "admins + moderators" right now

[Johan Commelin]

I just checked my settings. I don't recall ever changing them.

1. It said "admins + mods + members + guests" and I had to change it to "admins + mods" manually.
2. "Let others see when I've read messages" had a checkmark. But I thought that we opted out of that settings as zulip org...

[Sebastian Ullrich]

I don't think we can do anything about existing users, this was simply a bad default on Zulip's side

[Sebastian Ullrich]

Johan Commelin said:

2. "Let others see when I've read messages" had a checkmark. But I thought that we opted out of that settings as zulip org...

Note the little "Read receipts are currently disabled in this organization" info

[Eric Wieser]

Mario Carneiro said:

I don't think we intended to grandfather in all 1000-some users with that setting

Maybe this is why Zulip sent out an email to everyone