Sharing

Your profile

Your profile shows you as a collector, section by section, each with its own audience from Only you to Anyone. Other people's names never appear on it.

The header of your profile shows your @username, avatar and bio, and your name as the Your name row allows. Each section under it has its own audience.

Choose who sees a section

What a profile shows and never shows

Your profile is who you are as a collector: your Top 10s, what you are into right now, what you play most, a few items from your shelves, stories, a few stats, your wishlist and your For trade list. Each section has its own audience: Only you, Friends, Followers or Anyone. Most start at Friends, and A few stats starts at Only you. On your own page, each item under Currently into and Most time spent opens your copy of it; a visitor never gets that way in.

Other people's names never appear on it, and neither do feelings, session notes or the dates of single sessions.

An item on your profile shows your rating beside it while Show my ratings is on in Settings > Who sees what, to whoever that section already reaches. Off, your ratings are yours alone.

An item on your profile carries your shared note on it too, to whoever that section already reaches: printed under the title in a Top 10, and read by opening the item everywhere else. None is shown while Show my shared notes is off in Settings > Who sees what, and a private note never is.

What a visitor can do on it

A closed profile, and what a stranger always sees

Showcases

A showcase is a few photos of your collection as a whole (a bookcase, a display case, a painted army), one showcase per shelf. It sits on your profile.

Starting one, its audience and likes

Start one from your own profile with Start a showcase. Choose its audience before Add a photo: Only you keeps the first photo private from the moment it is saved. Each showcase keeps its own audience, and who can comment is never wider than who can see it.

Anyone who can see a showcase can like its photos; there is no dislike. A showcase holds up to 3 photos, 30 with Supporter.

Share links

A share link makes one thing public on purpose, shows you what a stranger will see first, and can be turned off any time.

Make a link

Open what you want to show and press its Share button: Share shelf on a shelf, for example. Every place opens the same Share sheet: first the ticket, what is shared and whose, with its number on the stub, then the link and Copy link. The card, where there is one, comes below with Save as image.

Open Options to choose what the page shows, one line each, with ? for the full story. Its summary line says what is chosen. The Preview of the public page at the foot is what anyone with the link gets.

Press Copy link: that makes the link and copies it. On a phone, Share to an app beside it sends it to a chat instead, with the card's picture attached where there is one and the app takes it. Turn off in the foot takes the link back.

What a link shows depends on what kind of page it is and the options you pick, and the share sheet's Preview shows exactly that before the link exists. On every link, money (what you paid, spent or budgeted) and private item notes stay private, and nobody else is named unless you make a Circle link With names.

Link

Can show, if you choose

Never shows

A shelf or a Top 10

Your ratings and shared item notes (by their switches in Settings > Who sees what), and with Show time and feelings, how often you logged each item and the feeling you logged most

Session notes, headlines, the dates of single sessions, other people's names

A ranking, a tier list or one item

Your ratings and shared item notes, by the same switches

Feelings, session notes, headlines, session dates, other people's names

A wishlist, a window of stats, a figure or a build

The page itself, with figures as of Monday for someone who is not your friend

Feelings, session notes, headlines, session dates, other people's names

A card of your year's recap

Its figures, and on the lines card the headlines you wrote, none from a session you kept out of feeds

Other people's names (the Circle card names Circles, never a person), session notes

A Circle's year

With names: the names you gave the table, the date of each night and the headlines written for those nights. Without names: Player 1, Night 1 and no headlines

Feelings, session notes, a headline from a session kept out of feeds

What can be a link, and its number

A share link is one thing made public on purpose: a Top 10, a year's recap card, a shelf, a wishlist, a window of stats, one figure or build, a Circle's year. The address in your browser's bar is not one: someone signed out who opens it gets a Members only notice, which tells them to ask you for a share link and names that page's Share control.

A shared Top 10 and a shared shelf

A shared Top 10 sets each rank on a graded slab, as a profile's does.

A shared shelf can show the time spent with each item, if you switch that on, and a visitor can order it by Most played or show only what was never played.

A shared Top 10, shelf, ranking or single item shows your rating beside each item that has one, by the same switch: Show my ratings, in Settings > Who sees what. An item you keep off public pages never shows one.

A shared Top 10, shelf, ranking or single item carries your shared note on each item as well, by a switch of its own: Show my shared notes, in Settings > Who sees what. The shared note of an item you keep off public pages is never shown, and a private note never is, on any page.

Visitors, and a link you turned off

A visitor gets the page at once, before the rest of ShelfChronicles loads. Under its title the page says it is by your @handle on ShelfChronicles and, in one sentence, what kind of page it is; on a phone a shelf or a wishlist is a list, a small cover, the title and a line about it in each row. Signed out, they have the same two ways on at every kind of link: Create your free account, then Try the sample, beside the title on a computer, over one line on what ShelfChronicles is, and in one slim bar at the bottom of a phone. An item with more to show than its row prints, such as your note on it, opens that in place under itself; a signed-in member's press opens a sheet instead, where they can add it to their own shelf. Your @handle on the page opens your profile only for a visitor your profile is open to; for anyone else it is plain text. Pasted into a chat, a link draws its own picture, never with cover art: a Top 10 its ranks, a recap its big figure, a Circle its figures and most played titles with nobody named, a shelf or a wishlist its spines. A link counts each visitor once and remembers nothing about who they were.

A link you turned off tells whoever opens it whose it was and the day it went off, so a friend knows to ask you for a new one.

A Circle's link is the group's page, for people with no account: its nights and hours, the standings, the recent nights with who won, what is played most and each game's best score. You choose With names or Without names before the link is made; without, people read as Player 1, Player 2 and nights are numbered, not dated. With names, each recent night also shows the headlines written for its sessions, each with its writer's name: yours, and those of members of a shared Circle who logged the same night. A session someone kept out of feeds never shows its headline, and a member is told this on the Circle's page. Without names, headlines are left out. ShelfChronicles never features a page that shows names, and search engines are asked to leave a Circle's page out.

Who sees what

Stopping a share link, and turning it back on

Show my ratings

Show my ratings is one switch for every rating you have given, and it starts on. On, a rating goes where its item goes: whoever can already see an item on your profile or on a page you share sees what you gave it. Off, only you see your ratings.

Show my shared notes

Show my shared notes is one switch for every shared note on an item, and it starts on. On, a shared note goes where its item goes. Off, nobody but you reads any of them. Private notes do not depend on it, only you ever see those, on or off.

Who sees a session

Going quiet

Pick A week, Two weeks or A month.

Press Come back now to end it sooner.

Sections open to Anyone or Followers show to friends only, share and invite links rest, and search finds you only for friends. Your friends and your live tables carry on.

It ends by itself after a week, two weeks or a month, and everything comes back exactly as it was.

Figures as of Monday

Someone who is not your friend sees your figures as they stood on Monday: hours, sessions, what you played most. Your friends see them live.

Why Monday

The reason is what live numbers give away. A stranger who checks your profile on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday morning learns that you were home playing in between. Weekly figures say the same about your year and nothing about your evenings. "Currently into" is shown in no order for the same reason.

A rating keeps to Monday too, someone who is not your friend sees the ratings you gave before Monday, and one you gave or changed since is left out until the next Monday.

A shared note on an item keeps to Monday too: written or reworded since Monday, it reaches someone who is not your friend the next Monday.

Monday is your own Monday, in your time zone. A brand new account shows "Figures appear from" and a date instead of zeros. To show someone everything as it happens, be friends:

see Friends.