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mschoeningyesterday at 9:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

When you start contributing to a page you see this:

https://cleanshot.com/share/trYdqYFZ

This is pretty meh. We will deploy more explicit messaging while we mitigate this properly.


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janalsncmyesterday at 9:45 PM

The warning is too vague. “May become visible” kind of sounds like Notion doesn’t know whether they will become visible or not.

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nashashmiyesterday at 11:19 PM

Please also especially clarify that IDs of contributors will be public. Meh is good, but this was a bit too simple.

There is a way to mitigate this. Re-hash and cache the page to be meta-less for public URLs. I guess that requires a huge amount of coding for a team that has not built the product from the ground up. But I feel like a "copy and paste" could fix that (remove author data).