Are you making a distinction between users and contacts?
If not, then perhaps this is what you should consider. It’s generally good practice anyway.
A user email is associated with a user of the app. It’s what they use to login, and as a general rule it should be kept private (unless the user explicitly agrees otherwise).
A contact email can be associated with a user, or with a business. It might be a personal email address, but in many (most?) cases it won’t be. It’s usually something generic like contact@ or enquiries@. Contact email addresses in this context are almost by definition public, so you don’t have to worry about trying to secure them.
Some are public, ie. you can find on their websites, but some are private. I would like for businesses to contact each other if wanted. They already know they are part of this internal communication network.
Okay, but I would still recommend creating that separation between users and contacts.
Then you can allow your business owners to choose how they should be contacted, rather than it being fixed to their login email address.
Do you have businesses with multiple users of the app? If yes, how do you mange that currently? ie. Which one is used as the business contact? Are they all listed, or do you pick one?
I would suggest reading this thread from this point to the end. I think it explains a very similar problem with similar obstacles. There is a bit more technical explanation on why this is so hard to achieve.
Thanks!! I’m wondering how Instagram does it where you can email someone from their page, I guess they have their own security for that?
Do you know if I use another tool which pulls the information from the google sheet for businesses to be in contact, would have the same downloaded data problem as glide?
Instagram has a team of developers building a single app from homegrown code whereas Glide is an all in one solution that tries to cater to millions of different app types with easy to use no-code tools. I’m sure Instagram works quite differently and handles a lot more processing server side when it comes to security. I don’t know if it’s quite fair to compare the two in functionality.
I’m not familiar with other tools or how they work. Other than code development at my day job, Glide is the only no-code solution that I use in my spare time.
I guess we will have to wait for chat to become a feature for communication between users (also where you can choose which users have this feature), where emails won’t be needed. Thanks!
