Sharing and Visibility

Sharing and Visibility

Recipes, cookbooks, and Meal Weeks each have a visibility setting:

• Public — viewable by anyone at its normal URL, and listed in the relevant browse page (/recipes for recipes, etc.). New recipes default to public; cookbooks and Meal Weeks default to private. You can change your own default for new recipes/cookbooks in Settings.
• Private — visible only to you.

There's no middle "unlisted" tier — just public or private.

Share links

Any public recipe, cookbook, or Meal Week can generate a shareable link (a short, random-token URL) from its page. A few things worth knowing:

• Since only public resources can be shared, a share link is really a convenience/short-link, not a privacy boundary — anyone who already knows the item is public can already reach it at its normal URL.
• Visibility is checked live on every visit: if you set something back to private, any existing share link for it stops working immediately — you don't need to remember to revoke it first.
• You can still explicitly revoke a share link at any time to generate a fresh one later.

Public profiles

Every user has a profile page at /u/<username> listing their public recipes and public cookbooks. Usernames are auto-generated when you first sign in and can be changed anytime in Settings.