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Publishing & Visibility

Keep a character private or share her with the community — how visibility works, the review that going public goes through, and discovery tags.

2 min readUpdated July 21, 2026

Every character you create starts private. Making her public — so the whole community can find and chat with her — is entirely opt-in, and it goes through a quick review first.

Private vs. public#

  • Private (default) — only you can find her and chat with her. Everything you do with her stays yours.
  • Public — discoverable by everyone on Explore, and open for anyone to start a chat with.

Making a character public#

From My Characters, choose Make Public on the character and confirm. She's then submitted for review — once approved, she goes live on Explore for the community.

Discovery tags#

When you submit a character for review, you pick her 10 discovery tags right in the publish dialog — they decide where she shows up when people browse and filter Explore. Tags are grouped across Style, Relationship, Orientation, Dynamic, Body, Hair, Ethnicity, Persona, Occupation, Scenario, Kink, and Tone — well-chosen tags put your character in front of the audience most likely to love her. The review team sees your tags and may refine them as part of approval.

Going public is a commitment#

Once a character is public, she can't be deleted — you'd have to take her private again first. Treat publishing as sharing her with the world: it opens her up to everyone, and there's a review gate on the way in to keep the community's public roster clean.

Where public characters show up#

Approved public characters appear in the Explore grid alongside the team's and community's characters, and anyone can start a conversation with them. Your private characters never appear there — they're visible only to you.