Hey okay, this is something that i haven't seen done with basically anything else: Is it possible to make specific fronts private? like Kyle is added to front, this is visible to everyone just fine; he leaves and comes back the next day but doesn't want to have people asking him questions or some shit, so he adds himself to front on private, his personal information is still available but this exact instance of fronting is not public.
even just a like, setting to have it private or public by default and the option to toggle it would be great.
the feeling of constant observation that can build when people have access to who is fronting all the time can get really fucking draining and lead to weird paranoia of who will or won't see that you're fronting. This is a way that the right to privacy is revoked for systems. singlets can log on anywhere and say whatever they want, have any specific emotion that they can keep completely private and choose to express whenever they want-- a system who Ever wants to be addressed correctly (and especially for systems with high alter counts or frequent switches where asking every time is unrealistic) is stuck with each alter either choosing to be a complete ghost or not with no flexibility. sometimes you just dont want the specific response that people give You as an alter and with the Existant Or Not privacy that other tools provide, you cannot easily dodge it.
(i also wish that any field stuff had a per person basis too because sometimes you dont want your mom to see "dyke" as your gender, similar situation where systems lose access to situational determination)
(a) this kind of thing is currently addressable via use of proxies; you can set a proxy to "expand front" -- so when the proxy is added to front, it shows as "proxy name [member name]", but you can also turn that off! so you can make a "someone else" proxy with that setting off, add whomever doesn't want to be perceived to it, and add that one to front. it creates a front entry where that member's presence is saved internally, but that's not displayed.
beyond that, though, we do have plans :)
(b) we want to add a "silent front"/"private front" option for logging switches in standalone; this would create a switch without sending a notification, or maybe without being publicly-visible at all... maybe both. maybe four options, based on the existing privacy levels...
(c) we're also adding granular front privacy + field privacy settings! with the standalone platform, you'll be able to set some member info (ex. description, variant collection, etc.) to one of four privacy states, including fronting status! you can then assign those privacy states to friends who have you added, and they'll only see things included in that state. :)
this isn't implemented yet, because we have no idea how to handle that while we're still bound to discord ui as a helper bot. but it's one of our top planned features :) i'm sure it'll evolve more once it hits any testing stages, too.
