Features
Profile
Your avatar, cover, bio, and personal details — and how others see them.
Your profile is your home on Public. It shows your name, avatar, cover image, bio, and a feed of your own posts.
What's on your profile
- Avatar and cover images.
- Display name and username (your
@username). - Bio, location, date of birth, gender, and interests (up to 20 tags, each up to 50 characters).
- Stats: Posts, Following, Followers, plus the date you Joined.
- Your own posts (with the composer on top, on your own profile).
- Any badges you've earned through Challenges or Gamification.
- A verified badge if you're on the Pro subscription.
- A pro label that may appear on your comments and other interactions.
Open your profile
- Web: click your avatar in the sidebar/header, or visit
/u/your-usernameor/profile/your-id. - Android: tap your avatar.
Other people's profiles open at the same /u/:username and /profile/:id URLs.
Edit your profile
Profile editing lives in Settings:
- Web: open
/settings. Sections include Profile Settings (avatar, cover, username, full name, gender, date of birth, bio). - Android: open Settings from the Menu tab. The Profile Settings and Personal Details sections cover the same fields.
Username rules
- 3 to 30 characters.
- Letters, numbers, and underscores only.
- Must be unique across Public.
- A custom username (i.e., choosing your own short, branded one) is available on Creator and Pro plans. See Subscriptions.
What others see
Other people see everything on your profile that's public — name, avatar, cover, bio, location, gender (unless set to Hidden), date of birth, interests, posts, follower/following counts, and badges. Your email is never shown publicly.
If you want to limit interaction with someone specifically, block them.