Members of public groups should be able to hide the group
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A member of a public group should be able to hide that group from their profile, as if it were a private group. There are multiple reasons somebody might want to do this. Here are a couple I can think of:
- If a user is a member of many groups, they may want some of those groups to stand out. For example, if you go to a lot of music events, you will end up with many club groups, which could make it difficult for other users to see another group on your profile which is more important to you, such as an event that you organize.
- Having group membership as public effectively forces users to display the group to access group events. For various reasons, not all users are equally open about their interests. For example, not everybody would want to have a bottle feeding cafe group in their profile, but others would. This creates a problem for group owners: make the group public, alienating users who don't want the group in their profile, or make the group private, making it difficult for the group to be discovered. People who are normally very private might not want to join many public groups at all.
I've seen on other platforms users have a checkbox on the group settings screen that allows them to hide the group from their profile. It seems like a simple solution.
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Deantwo
This post seems old and can likely be closed as completed.
Salbug
You can already though.
Chdata
Salbug: so essentially they need to add it to the website menu as well
dmx512
Salbug: this does not work currently
GenesisAria
dmx512: Seems buggy ingame, i set it via vrcx nightly and it works perfectly. Probably api communication issues.
DarkSwordsman
> vrchat: "we aren't adding a clock because it might have negative impacts on social interactions"
> also vrchat: "lul, you're in a public instance? good luck hiding your groups"
kawashirov
Agree, as I understood, right now owner of the group can hide/show members, but member itself can't rly control who and how can see their membership. This is bad practice that WILL cause major misunderstanding, confusion and conflicts at some point. People should be able to control own privacy as primary feature, and group owner preferencies should be secondary feature.
It would be better if players can choose, who can see membership (no one, friends, friends+, anyone) and owner can optionally restrict visibility to more privvate one. It's also should be consistent: if membership can't be seen on group page, it's should not be seen in user profile.
dmx512
this feature exists in theory but seems to be broken
Zеkk
I agree with this, your HARD CORE ROCK AND ROLE METAL BANGER group doesn't need to know that you attend Saturday morning knitting unless you want them to. You don't tell every "group" you join irl what other groups you hang out with do you. Some things random people just don't need to know. I think this is especially important for certain groups too, for example, lets say you have an Alcoholics Anonymous group in VRC, that might not be something you want just displayed on your profile. But is definitely the type of group that would probably be a public group based on its purpose alone.
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Nothing against this particular music group or the bottle feeding cafe. They're just the first group I joined and the first potential group I could think of that people in public instances would likely ridicule.