Ability to set annotation privacy setting to 'Public' by default.

[renoirb]

As a W3C spec contributor, most of the work is in the open. Some users asked why they can’t see their own annotations when not logged in.

Could it be possible to set as "Public" by default for our annotations.

Some notes

In hypothesis/h version @84c6283

Around this section or in annotation.coffee around value.permissions.

Current hypothesis/h @master branch

After some code reading, it feels like its not configurable. Closest to making it default might be to change directives/privacy.coffee at line 67. Set VISIBILITY_PUBLIC instead of VISIBILITY_PRIVATE.

[azaroth42]

+1 to defaulting to public

[dwhly]

Our newest branch does this.

[renoirb]

Great. How to make it so in our own. See updated description.

[tilgovi]

Our newest branch does this.

@dwhly no, it doesn't.

[shepazu]

@tilgovi, do you know how we can do this? Renoir found this line of code that he thought might help:
https://github.com/hypothesis/h/blob/84c62837cda5d717870a4a0d5ca2d669cd01f531/h/static/scripts/directives.coffee#L10

This doesn't seem like it should be hard to do.

[tilgovi]

That line does not help. That line is about determining when the drop-down says "Public" and when it says "Only Me".

The way to do it on the version of h you're using would be to change the line here to read: ['group:__world__', token.userId].

On our current master branch, the approach is different, but also cleaner, and doesn't require forking. After next week, or maybe late next week, I should be able to help you move to our latest code and make these changes.

[shepazu]

@tilgovi, thanks for the fix. Which line do we change, and will that still let people make private annotations if they choose?

[tilgovi]

Oh, sorry. I forgot to hit paste.

https://github.com/hypothesis/h/blob/84c62837cda5d717870a4a0d5ca2d669cd01f531/h/static/scripts/controllers.coffee#L171

[tilgovi]

will that still let people make private annotations if they choose

yes

[renoirb]

Thanks! i’ll do that!

[dwhly]

@dwhly no, it doesn't.

Yep. It does.

Create a new account-- the visibility defaults to public now. Just confirmed it again. I believe @aron made this change recently. Can't recall which pull request it was exactly.

[tilgovi]

Create a new account-- the visibility defaults to public now. Just confirmed it again.

I promise you that's not the case :-D.

Copying my message from the email thread:

No. It's not. The solution we implement with local storage isn't tied to your account, it's tied to your browser. Log in, even to your same account, with a private browsing window and you will see the default is private.

[dwhly]

I promise you that's not the case :-D.

Holy mother of god did I think I had you on that one. :)

[renoirb]

Deployed and running.