Here is what Samantha Sun had to suggest to us:

One feature that I most like to see is the ability to ‘private’ a blog. Whether it’s a leveled type permission (show to friends only, show to me only, show to members only, public) or the ability to password the entire blog (or even individual posts!). Not sure if many would agree and want to see this feature (so here’s hoping). I know there’s a visibility feature – but right now it’s all or nothing – visible to public or not.

We here understand that privacy has become a very important issue for web services and we definitely will add lots of tools to help you maintain your privacy at the level that is convenient to you. In the future you will be able to limit who can see your entire blog or separate posts – your friends, your subscribers, all Profy users, anyone.

For the time being we have decided to focus on privacy features that are related to your reading and networking – in your profile you can choose who will see what you read and who will see your friends.

There are several levels of privacy now:

 

• Anyone – in this case anyone will be able to see your friends and feeds you read via the widgets on your blog (currently we do not have a widget for the feeds you read, you can only show blogs from your friends)
• Subscribers – all the Profy users
• Friends – people you have added to your network as friends
• Only me – no one will be able to see the information but yourself

If privacy is important to you and you do not want to share your reading lists and your friends lists with the world, do not forget to choose the appropriate settings in the profile.

I will be looking forward to seeing further feedback from users to publish in this ‘Talking to Profy Users’ series. 

Dear testers,

We have finally uploaded a new release of the product that includes a number of bug fixes and the results of our long-time optimization efforts. Besides, we have finally moved the product to ServePath which should also improve the general speed problems. So these results are finally here for all of you to test and I will really appreciate you taking a moment to follow these steps:

1. Logout from the product
2. Clear cache in your browser
3. Login again using Firebug or some stop watch to measure the time it takes for the dashboard to load

I would love to get the results from you in the comments below, on your Profy blogs or by email - any way that suits you better.

As always, I appreciate your support and your involvement in helping us make Profy better and bring it to the state when it is ready to be shown to public.