A feature I'd love to have is anonymous posts and comments as my genre is a sensitive background. Currently using another community that has this feature
+1 I’d like to avoid things like herd mentality, shame to express owns differing opinion, group think, “cancel” etc. Nobody should be hold back to express themselves due to social pressure. A toggle to make post private is much needed for this. This request in conjunction with https://heartbeat.canny.io/feature-requests/p/option-for-anonymous-users
I'd really like this feature to be made available soon 🙏 My community is set up as an incubator-type space where women can practice expressing themselves freely. For this, sometimes we need the option for private posting. Plz consider upvoting and prioritizing this feature soon!
Michelle Dittmer
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Apr 26, 2025
Working with parents of teens, protecting their kids privacy when dealing with sensitive issues like sexuality, addiction, mental health struggles, etc. is crucial. There is also lots of shame when parents want to express their parenting shortcomings but they need support - being anonymous means that they will get the support they need while saving face and protecting their kid's privacy. Without this feature, my community will not grow.
Emily Armstrong
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Jan 22, 2025
We have lost users recently and when asked why this was their response - they can’t post anonymously and due to sensitive nature of some things need to be able to. We need the ability for users to post/comment anon!
Jeroen (CTO 👨💻)
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Nov 18, 2024
Doesn’t have much votes, but this might be misrepresenting due to selection bias. Wonder how many people discard Heartbeat for FB Groups or Discourse when prospecting their community platform of choice! Would be an interesting differentiator to some of the other trending community platforms that don’t have it.
Drew Drinkwater
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Dec 23, 2023
Super important. I think it would be a good rule of thumb to follow and "copy" big communities such as Facebook. I am apart of a FB community where anonymous post are crucial for engagement
Shane Haron
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Dec 11, 2023
Any updates
Nicola Payne
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Nov 20, 2022
I'd really like this too - it works well on FB - isn't overused and it would work well for my corporate professionals! Pretty please put it on the roadmap!
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Jeroen (CTO 👨💻)
Jun 15, 2022
+1
I’d like to avoid things like herd mentality, shame to express owns differing opinion, group think, “cancel” etc. Nobody should be hold back to express themselves due to social pressure. A toggle to make post private is much needed for this.
This request in conjunction with https://heartbeat.canny.io/feature-requests/p/option-for-anonymous-users
Jeroen (CTO 👨💻)
Jun 15, 2022
and this https://heartbeat.canny.io/feature-requests/p/option-to-disable-online-widget
Mousami Pandey
Aug 13, 2025
I'd really like this feature to be made available soon 🙏 My community is set up as an incubator-type space where women can practice expressing themselves freely. For this, sometimes we need the option for private posting. Plz consider upvoting and prioritizing this feature soon!
Michelle Dittmer
Apr 26, 2025
Working with parents of teens, protecting their kids privacy when dealing with sensitive issues like sexuality, addiction, mental health struggles, etc. is crucial. There is also lots of shame when parents want to express their parenting shortcomings but they need support - being anonymous means that they will get the support they need while saving face and protecting their kid's privacy. Without this feature, my community will not grow.
Emily Armstrong
Jan 22, 2025
We have lost users recently and when asked why this was their response - they can’t post anonymously and due to sensitive nature of some things need to be able to. We need the ability for users to post/comment anon!
Jeroen (CTO 👨💻)
Nov 18, 2024
Doesn’t have much votes, but this might be misrepresenting due to selection bias. Wonder how many people discard Heartbeat for FB Groups or Discourse when prospecting their community platform of choice! Would be an interesting differentiator to some of the other trending community platforms that don’t have it.
Drew Drinkwater
Dec 23, 2023
Super important. I think it would be a good rule of thumb to follow and "copy" big communities such as Facebook. I am apart of a FB community where anonymous post are crucial for engagement
Shane Haron
Dec 11, 2023
Any updates
Nicola Payne
Nov 20, 2022
I'd really like this too - it works well on FB - isn't overused and it would work well for my corporate professionals! Pretty please put it on the roadmap!
Luiz Cristofari
Oct 14, 2022
This is a must have option.