A strange convention

It was explained to me about why recent items don't show up on the modules main page

I did not know this. I find it a strange convention since public should be the world and members of course are members of the site. All members should be able to see these items.  If an item is set to members, members should be able to see it on the modules main page; why is that just restricted to public items?  It should be that public can not see items marked members but members can; even if on the module's main page.  This was confusing me and certainly is confusing my members.

Alex, I do consider this a bug.  Members should be able to see items marked for viewing by members.

Actually this already works this way.

When guest is is viewing public content, then only content with "public" privacy is shown.

When logged-in member is viewing public content, then only content with "public" and "members" privacy groups is shown. 

A member is both a member and the public.  I tested this on a module that had a post that was marked for members only.  I go to the home page of the module and there is NO content.  What?  I know there is content because I posted it.  Sure enough, if it is marked "member" a member can not see it.  I changed the content to "public" and it showed up.  This is strange behaviour that a member can not see "member" marked content on the home page of a module but can see content marked "public".

 I agree with what geek_girl is saying. What she is stating makes sense and one of the members here stated the following, and I quote;

"The convention in Dolphin modules is that only items with public view access are shown on the homepage and the main page for the module. However, if you browse (eg. browse by recent etc.), items with member view access will then show."

So what gives here....Public settings should allow Everyone to see it...Everywhere...regardless.

Member setting means just that...only a logged in Member can view it.

That is simple enough I think,

I want to change this strange convention even if Boonex likes it.  It just makes no sense that a member can not see content with the privacy set to "members" on a module's home page; it leads the members to think there is NO content; or less content, when there is.

Is this a global thing?  I noticed the module that lead to this has the same "convention".  I don't know if he just followed convention when creating the mod or if this is a "global" thing that the modules are using.

It maybe that this is not consistent across all the modules, if you provide the exact places where this happens - we will be able to fix this!

http://www.boonex.com/forums/#topic/Recipe-Mod-Support-Modzzz-.htm

Go to the end and see the post I made and the answer given.

Yes, there is a convention to show only public content on module homepage, but in Dolphin modules we consider that content is public related to the logged in member:

- for guests: public content is content which have only "public" privacy group

- for logged-in members: public content is content which have "public" or "members" privacy groups

This is convention we tried to use everywhere, if you notice that it works differently, please report and we will investigate the issue.