That said, no Phind links will be indexed unless you actively share the link to your conversation on an indexable site (like Twitter), which implies that you wish the link to be public anyway. I assure you that this is not an intentional dark pattern.
Even more so for users who are not logged in.
I find it very surprising that I type something into your service and that gets hosted on the open internet for everybody to see.
And as a logged out user, I have no way to ever delete it.
For logged out users, you really should not store the input at all.
I am curious however how the Explore tab is populated? Are those conversations created by employees for demonstration purposes, or were they sourced from user interactions?
Did you expect anything else from an Internet-based cloud service? In fact, you just did that on this site, but I doubt you thought it's surprising?
Looking forward to a lot of public updates! Repost back on HN when you all have resolved and I’ll start using the tool again.