Sharing
Publish
Publish makes what other people see match your workspace. It is the only thing in ohm that shares anything, and it always shows you what will change first.
Publishing from the workspace is not built yet.
Before you publish
The status line lists what is waiting: posts you marked public or for friends, published posts you edited, and published posts you made private or deleted.
You can preview a post as it will appear before it is published. Your workspace already holds the post and its files.
The two steps
- You see the changes. What will be created, what will be replaced, what will be removed, who will be able to read each post, and the address it will have.
- You say yes. Only then does anything change.
What Publish does to each post
| Your workspace says | Published now | Publish does |
|---|---|---|
| Public | Nothing, or an older version | Creates or replaces the post in your account, with its files |
| Friends | Not shared yet, or an older version | Makes this version the one your friends are shown |
| Private, or the post is deleted | A public post or a shared friends version | Removes it |
| The same as what is published | Nothing |
Editing a published post does not change what readers see. They see the last version you published until you publish again.
Where a public post goes
A public post is written to your own account on the AT Protocol, in the repository that belongs to your identity. It is not kept on a platform of ours.
- Your website shows it. Your site is a view of what is in that repository.
- Other applications can read it. Every public post has the same shape on every site, so other software can find and read it.
- You can move it. The repository goes with your account to another host.
Public is for good
Other services copy a public post the moment it is written. Making it private later removes it from your account and your website. It does not remove it from every copy. The confirmation tells you this each time a public post is being removed.
Addresses
If you renamed or refiled a published post, Publish shows the new address before changing it. After a rename, the old address sends readers on to the new one.
What Publish does not do
Publish does not touch your folder, and Sync does not publish. An edit that arrives from your folder is a change waiting to be published, like any other.