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Edit your public profile

Settings > Profile changes what people see on your public page at /your-handle, from your name and bio to your avatar and pinned skills.

Your public profile lives at /<your-handle>. Anyone can open it, signed in or not. To edit it, open Profile settings (from Settings, choose Edit public profile). The page is titled Public profile.

The Your profile card shows a live preview as you type (beside the form on a wide screen, above it on a narrow one). Nothing changes until you press Save changes in the bar at the bottom. Discard puts back what you had.

What you can set

  • About you: Display name (required), pronouns, a short bio, company (start with @ to link an organisation, like @acme), location, and an optional box to display your current local time.
  • Links: your website or portfolio and up to four social profile links, each shown with its own icon (GitHub, LinkedIn, X and others). Every link must use https. If you signed in with GitHub, you can choose to show your GitHub account. It stays hidden until you tick the box.
  • Avatar: press Change avatar under the preview. Pick a default avatar from one of the style tabs, or choose Use an image link and paste a link to your GitHub avatar (avatars.githubusercontent.com) or an image uploaded to Deftro. Links to other sites are refused, because an image from another site lets it see everyone who views your profile. Remove clears it. Press Done, then save your profile to apply it.
  • Featured work: pin the public skills and prompts you want people to see first.
  • Achievements: show or hide the whole badge section. To hide a single badge, open it on your profile and use the eye.

View public profile in the bottom bar opens the page as others see it.

Your handle

Your handle is the @name in your profile address and in your artifact addresses (handle/slug). It is picked when you first sign in, from your GitHub login or your email address. It cannot be changed from settings.

What is public

Everything on this form is shown on your profile, along with your public artifacts and their stars and installs. Your email address is not shown. Private artifacts, and artifacts shared only inside an organisation, stay off your profile.

Followers

Under the avatar, a person's profile shows how many followers they have and how many accounts they follow, and an organisation shows its followers. Press Follow on someone's profile, and Following to stop. They are not notified and get no email. Banned followers are not counted. The numbers can take about a minute to catch up, so one may be off by one right after you press.

Code: self_follow

During maintenance the Follow button is paused and says so. You cannot follow yourself; your own profile has no button, so this shows only through the API. An account can follow people from a day after signing up, and can follow or unfollow up to 120 times an hour and 500 times a day.

Invite friends

Below the form, Invite people gives you a personal link. People who sign up through it and then publish or install something count toward your Connector badge.

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