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Comment by kstrauser

2 months ago

If I were the user, I would’ve been unsatisfied with that answer. They had logs showing that yes, someone did appear to access their notes. No one seems to have corrected the misunderstanding at the time, which might’ve turned them back into a happy Roam user.

Don’t do that. Things like this are an opportunity to overcommunicate. Explain in detail to the user, who’s smart enough to use the tools to reveal the information in the first place. Write up a FAQ entry explaining this for the next person so you can point them right to it. Don’t just reply to say basically “you didn’t actually see that” and leave it at that.

Thank you

Yes, definitely a communication misstep on our part, and we could've handled it much better

I have a second comment there too, but got delayed in posting because HN rate-limited my account for too many comments