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Privacy settings for profile

Are more granular privacy controls in the roadmap at all? For example, hiding activity from public view (e.g., followers only, or totally private)?
Sorry , but there are no additional privacy features like hiding your profile to others as then , they won't be able to see your activity(s) and etc. Sure , you can set that whether other players can follow you or not , can they message / challenge you or not ( to a specific condition ) , can they invite you to study or not......etc.
You can check them here :-
lichess.org/account/preferences/privacy
Thanks @Peeyush_Sonkar -- I'm aware of the existing controls and am curious if more granular settings are in the development roadmap (or if there is such a thing). I understand this would disallow other users from seeing my activity -- that's the point :)!

Just thinking about this more, does Lichess conduct user surveys at all? I'd assume the roadmap is likely informed by some combination of:
-- 1) maintain basic expectations of a world-class chess server (e.g., table stakes stuff like latency, board features, etc.).
-- 2) above-and-beyond stuff that are of obvious benefit to a high % of users (e.g., studies, and now personal opening explorer, etc).
-- 3) developer interest (e.g., literally the stuff that volunteers *want* to build :)
-- 4) expressed user interest (this forum, user surveys)

It's always interesting to me to get to peek behind the curtain of well-run FOSS projects from an organization, development workflow, and prioritization perspective.
I think for the most part the settings offered are fine, but I'd also like more granular settings. For example, you can either allow people to follow you or not, but now you can't know who is following you and while I get why they made this decision it leaves the door open for stalking. I suggest to add an option like "Allow people to follow me (with permission)" because if people who follow you but you are not aware of are treated as "friends" and that makes little sense.

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