Sharing and publishing

One switch, three states

Sharing is a single control rather than a scatter of settings. A list is private, public, or open to anyone holding both the link and a password. Turning one on turns the others off, and the modal says what changed.

Publishing to everyone

A public list becomes a real page: its own address, its cover, its description, and every item laid out the way it is laid out for you. Reels play, videos play, and a reader can open any item on its own.

It carries a like count and a view count, and a Curate your own invitation for the visitor who wants one of their own. It is also indexable, which is how somebody who has never heard of you finds a collection you made.

Sending it to particular people

Not everything worth sharing is worth publishing. Share Privately sends a list to named people by handle or by email. They get it in their Shared tab, wearing the same cover it wears for you, and the list stays off the public web.

For a reader who has no account and should not need one, the third state is a link with a password on it. Anyone with both can open the page. Anyone with only the link cannot.

Running a list as a newsletter

A public list can collect subscribers. Turn Subscription on and a Subscribe button appears on the page; from then on, new things you add are mailed out on a schedule. A subscriber is someone with a Kyurations account who subscribed from the list's own page, and the issue goes to the verified email already on that account. There is no box where a stranger types an address, and no way to import one.

• The cadence is every week, every two weeks, or every four. Two weeks is the default.
• Each issue carries up to five items, written up as an issue rather than listed as links.
• Everything added since the last issue leads. If fewer than five things are new, the issue is topped up with the most recent older members so it still reads like an issue.
• Send yourself a sample first. It is the same email your subscribers will get.

Your profile, and Discover

Your handle is a page. Everything you have published sits on it, at an address you can put in a bio. Published collections also appear on Discover, which is the front door for people browsing rather than searching, and on subject pages grouping collections by what they are about.

Every published page carries the structured description search engines and AI assistants read, and a preview card built for it, so a link posted anywhere arrives looking like something rather than like a URL.

Taking it back

Switch sharing off and the page stops resolving. The share link is not recycled, the list is intact, and nothing you wrote is lost. A password link works the same way.

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