Nathan, thanks so much for taking my input into consideration as you continue to build out this useful tool. I look forward to seeing how it evolves over time, and in the meantime, I'm telling everyone I know about new.space!
To provide a specific use case, I've begun using new.space as a way to share photos & videos taken after an event with others who have attended. For example, I might share pics taken from my camera with a corporate client after an on-site training I deliver. Or I might share pics from my daughter's school assembly with other parents in the class.
I would find it very useful to be able to control "add," "view/download," or "modify" access. Ideally, I could toggle what access people can have when I share the public link with them (like Google Docs). So maybe I'd want to allow others to also upload their photos from an event, but limiting their access to only view/download/add, which prevents them from deleting photos others have added (they can only modify/delete their own files added)
Google Drive and Dropbox offer similar functionality, where you can select whether you want others to be able to read-only or modify. Dropbox also allows you to set up "request" folders where people can add photos to a folder, but can't modify the folder's contents once they've uploaded those photos. I suppose the hard part would be allowing others to add, but not allowing them to delete what others have contributed.
Joseph, thanks for the detailed response 🙇 I've captured this into our notes to discuss. Access controls are definitely something we want to get to in the future, we (the Shareup team) also have the need to distribute spaces that others cannot modify. If you look at the spaces I linked to in this newsletter post you'll see they are "read-only," so we are already working hard on this and hope to have more to talk about soon 💪
Being able to only modify what one added isn't super difficult technically, we'd just need to make sure the UX would make sense and everyone would understand why everything is working the way it is 😅 We'll discuss this soon as a team and see how it can fit into our roadmap.
Thanks again for taking the time to write and let me know if you ever need any help or have any other feedback about new.space 🫡
Nathan, I've loved using new.space over the past month since discovering it recently. To clarify the use case of sharing photos, if you share the link to share the space with someone, it sounds like they can add their own files, but do they also have full edit access to other's photos? Or just their own. E.g., could they delete files others have uploaded into the same space?
Joseph, yes, all members of a space are able to add to or delete from the space, currently. Over time we do want to make permissions more granular, but I don’t have anything to announce about that today. In a high-trust environment like friends and family it is usually a good thing that everyone is equal.
Do you have a specific use case in mind that might need more granular permissions? I’d love to capture that for the team so we can include that in our future planning 💪
Nathan, thanks so much for taking my input into consideration as you continue to build out this useful tool. I look forward to seeing how it evolves over time, and in the meantime, I'm telling everyone I know about new.space!
To provide a specific use case, I've begun using new.space as a way to share photos & videos taken after an event with others who have attended. For example, I might share pics taken from my camera with a corporate client after an on-site training I deliver. Or I might share pics from my daughter's school assembly with other parents in the class.
I would find it very useful to be able to control "add," "view/download," or "modify" access. Ideally, I could toggle what access people can have when I share the public link with them (like Google Docs). So maybe I'd want to allow others to also upload their photos from an event, but limiting their access to only view/download/add, which prevents them from deleting photos others have added (they can only modify/delete their own files added)
Google Drive and Dropbox offer similar functionality, where you can select whether you want others to be able to read-only or modify. Dropbox also allows you to set up "request" folders where people can add photos to a folder, but can't modify the folder's contents once they've uploaded those photos. I suppose the hard part would be allowing others to add, but not allowing them to delete what others have contributed.
Joseph, thanks for the detailed response 🙇 I've captured this into our notes to discuss. Access controls are definitely something we want to get to in the future, we (the Shareup team) also have the need to distribute spaces that others cannot modify. If you look at the spaces I linked to in this newsletter post you'll see they are "read-only," so we are already working hard on this and hope to have more to talk about soon 💪
Being able to only modify what one added isn't super difficult technically, we'd just need to make sure the UX would make sense and everyone would understand why everything is working the way it is 😅 We'll discuss this soon as a team and see how it can fit into our roadmap.
Thanks again for taking the time to write and let me know if you ever need any help or have any other feedback about new.space 🫡
Nathan, I've loved using new.space over the past month since discovering it recently. To clarify the use case of sharing photos, if you share the link to share the space with someone, it sounds like they can add their own files, but do they also have full edit access to other's photos? Or just their own. E.g., could they delete files others have uploaded into the same space?
Joseph, yes, all members of a space are able to add to or delete from the space, currently. Over time we do want to make permissions more granular, but I don’t have anything to announce about that today. In a high-trust environment like friends and family it is usually a good thing that everyone is equal.
Do you have a specific use case in mind that might need more granular permissions? I’d love to capture that for the team so we can include that in our future planning 💪