Sharing projects, visibility and creator profiles
The difference between private, unlisted and public projects on Codexe, how the gallery and leaderboard work, and what a public creator profile shows.
Three visibility levels
Every project has exactly one visibility setting, and it controls everything about who can reach it.
- Private - the default. Only you can open it. The share URL returns not-found for everyone else, including people who somehow guess the id.
- Unlisted - anyone with the link can view it, but it does not appear in the gallery and it is marked
noindex, so search engines are asked not to list it. Use this to send work to one person. - Public - listed in the gallery, eligible for the leaderboard, and indexable. Use this when you want the project found.
The gallery
The gallery lists every public, finished project, filterable by platform and sortable by activity or recency. Projects marked as templates appear under their own filter and can be cloned as a starting point for someone else’s build.
The leaderboard
The leaderboard ranks creators by the net community votes across their public projects, with views and project count breaking ties. Only public, finished projects count toward it.
Creator profiles
Publishing a project gives you a public profile at /u/<your-id> showing your display name, your public projects, aggregate stats and any badges you have unlocked. It contains only information derived from public activity.
Profiles with real published work are submitted to search engines; near-empty ones are deliberately excluded, so a profile becomes discoverable once you have published a couple of projects.
Changing your mind
Visibility can be changed at any time. Switching a public project back to private removes it from the gallery and the leaderboard immediately. Search engines that already crawled the public version will drop it on their next visit rather than instantly.