I’ve advocated for increased inter-user privacy controls on behalf of myself and other FetLife users for several years
If you were one of the people who used the FetLife Exporter hosted on this site and were sent a vaguley threatening email from Susan Wright telling you to delete your content, you should also be certain to read the update posted on the Exporter tool by following this link.
P.S. I don’t have any FetLife users’ passwords; none of the tools I wrote saves or logs any of them, by design. (Read the code if you need to be double-dom sure.) HOWEVER, I did get an email from a FetLife user who Susan Wright contacted who told me that Susan Wright had changed her account’s password without her consent. (Here’s a PDF of the timeline of events as the user shared them with me [and in plain text].) So in other words, when the FetLife staff tells you “Don’t ever give your FetLife password to anyone,” what they’re saying is, “because we’ll just take it anyway.” I sent them back this note:
