Two different pages decide how much of you other people see. It
is worth knowing which is which.
Your public profile
/profile/public ("Public profile") is the
page other readers can reach. What you put there is what they
see:
- your headline and pronouns,
- your about me text,
- your website,
- the languages you speak,
- your cover image,
- your social links,
- your favourite authors, and
- the stories you highlight.
Every one of those is optional. An empty field simply does not
appear.
Personal details visibility
The same page carries a "Personal details visibility" block.
It sets, per field, who may see it:
- Public — anyone,
- Followers only — only people who follow you,
- Only me — nobody but you.
The fields it covers are location, age, gender and
relationship. They start from whatever you chose, and you can
change any of them at any time. If in doubt, set a field to
Only me — nothing breaks, the field just stops being shown.
What is never shown to anyone
The entries under "Personal details" on
/profile/account are private
administrative data. Your email address, date of birth,
address, phone number, timezone and marital
status are not put on your public profile.
Note the difference between date of birth and age: your birth
date itself is never displayed, while age is one of the
fields in the visibility block above — so if you would rather
nobody knew, set age to Only me.
Your trophies are also private: /profile/trophies
shows your own, and trophies are not shown on public author
pages.
Your name and your address on the site
There is no free-text display name on OutaStory. The name
people see is built as "First [Middle] Last" from the three
name fields on /profile/account ("My
Account"). First and last name are required; change them there
and the public name changes with them.
On the same page, "Author URL" is your profile slug — the
outastory.com/authors/… address other people can link to. It
is public by nature, so pick something you are happy to have
seen. There is an availability check while you type, and the old
address keeps working for a while after you change it.
Publishing under a different identity
If you would rather publish under something other than your legal
name, OutaStory has pen names at
/profile/pen-names ("My pen names"). Each
pen name carries its own name, slug, bio and avatar.
Two conditions apply: the feature is behind a flag, so it is not
necessarily available on your account, and it stays blocked until
your legal name is complete on
/profile/account. If you do not see the
page, that is why.
Related
- Cookies, consent and tracking
- Downloading a copy of your data
- The privacy policy for the full account of
what we hold and why.