friendica/friendica — pull request #443 by fermionic (2012-08-25 03:35:46+00:00)
Title: automatically make posts private for new users

In my experience, less technically oriented persons who sign up for Friendica expect it to automatically protect their privacy. Additionally, for such people the steps to set a default private group for new contacts and posts adds a significant amount of complexity in signing up. Therefore, I propose that we automatically use the private group that's created for new users as the default private group for any contacts they add and for their posts.

I've included a htconfig.php option that restores the old behavior, but this pull will make the behavior I'm proposing the default behavior.

This is just my opinion. If you think that the old behavior is better suited for the types of Friendica installations that are common, I'm happy to make that the default instead.