Many thanks to jrbl who in Public by Default has this to say about osmosoft's handling of the recent change to Public by Default:
First, I very much dislike not being told that my tiddlers would suddenly start being created public. That shit is weak. It is not, I repeat not, good to assume that I read blog. I don't. I generally forget that it's there at all. In fact, I want to never have to read it again, if I don't want to.I'm very grateful to jrbl for making his anger visible; some users might silently stop using the service, without giving us a chance to understand what happened. I think this is a great example of where osmosoft needs to pay attention as it steps up to running a service, on top of it's normal software development activities.
From my perspective, all my ephemera just started being public without warning, and I didn't notice right away, either. I've been bookmarking things as public on jrbl-bookmarks for days because I use the cool javascript sidebar bookmarklet for firefox that bengillies made, and I didn't notice that the 'public' radio button was picked. Boy I'm glad I wasn't bookmarking porn sites.
At the very least, I would have liked for my first tiddlyspace load after the change went live to open my backstage and give me a note telling me about the change. Something. But no.
Bad osmosoft. No cookie for you.