This is a request to please reconsider the display of users' names in Photo Center when multiple people are editing a gallery, that was changed in 1.83.2 to the generic “Photo User”. Knowing there is someone else editing the gallery you’re trying to edit is a good thing, but to not know who that person is disrupts workflow and makes multi-user collaboration more difficult. The creators of galleries and individual photo credits are already public-facing, and these users displayed in Photo Center are only viewable by our staff, not the general public.
This runs contrary to the experience in Composer, where not only can you see who currently owns the lock on a story, but a record exists of all users who have made a change to the article in Revision History. (Also please do not get rid of this information, it would be detrimental to our newsrooms' workflow.)
I am all for the protection of PII in the wild but this feels like an overreach, protecting our staff’s names from coworkers. In this case, transparency is more important.
Brian McAlister
I agreen with Ken Paulsen on this. Please restore it to the way it was. Thanks!
It would be very helpful to have this feature restored. The times when we have multiple users in galleries are often the biggest, breaking stories, where it's essential to be know who else might be making consequential edits.