Your page, stitches, blog and feed

Everyone on the site has a page of their own. It gathers what you are willing to share: a few words about yourself, your charts in the catalogue, badges, your stitching and a wall of short posts. Your blog lives there too – for longer texts with headings and lists. And the «Feed» collects posts from the people you follow, so you do not have to visit their pages one by one. Below is how to use all of this, and what the site deliberately does not let you do.

How to open your page

Click your name with the «@» sign in the header. The page address is /en/@your-username, and you can give it to anyone. Under the large «@username» your trust level is written in grey («Newcomer», «Member» or «Regular»), then your display name, your status and a line like «0 followers · following 0 · here since …».

Below come the blocks: «Badges», «Standing», «Stitching», «Finished pieces», «In the gallery», «Stash», the «Blog» link and the «Wall». You decide what strangers see: «Settings» has a «Who sees what» block, and every line in it has three values – «Everyone», «Signed-in people» and «Only me». For example, with «My wall» set to «Only me», a guest sees nothing under «Wall» but «Nothing here yet.». Settings are covered in detail in Account and settings.

If you change your username, the old page address stops working. The site deliberately does not redirect from the old name to the new one, so hand out the new address again.

Stitches – short posts on the wall

A «stitch» is a short post without a title, up to 500 characters. It is a way to say «started a new chart» or to show what an evening produced.

Open your page and type into the «What are you stitching?» field under «Wall». The same field is at the top of the «Feed».
Click «Publish». The stitch opens on its own page, and a line with an «Open the stitch» link appears on your wall.
To mention somebody, write their username after «@», for example @anna. The mention becomes a link, and that person gets a «… mentioned you» notification.

An empty stitch cannot be published, and the field simply does not accept characters past 500. If you post too often, the site asks you to wait: «That is a lot of stitches in one hour».

Every stitch has buttons under it:

«Like» – mark the post. The number of hearts shows in the feed next to the stitch. You cannot like your own post.
«Pass on» – repeat somebody's stitch on your own wall. A «passed on a stitch» line appears there with the original text. If the author later deletes the original, the line stays, but the text is replaced with «The stitch is gone.».
«Save» – put the stitch into the «Library», section «Saved stitches». Pressing it again takes it out.
«Reply» – the field at the bottom of a stitch's page. A reply becomes a stitch of its own with an «in reply to» link, and the original's «Replies» counter goes up.
«Delete» – only on your own posts. The stitch is deleted at once, without a question, so press it on purpose.

Besides your own posts, lines about events appear on the wall by themselves: «published a chart:», «wrote a post:», «finished a piece», «earned a badge:» and a weekly summary of your stitching. These automatic lines cannot be switched off. If a blog post goes back to drafts or a chart leaves the catalogue, the line about it disappears from the wall.

The blog: longer posts

The blog is for texts that do not fit in 500 characters: a technique explained, the story of a finished piece, a thread review. The blog address is /en/@your-username/blog.

How to write a post:

Open your page, click the «Blog» link, then «Write a post».
Fill in «Title» and «One-line summary» – the summary is shown on the list and in search results.
Write the «Text» in Markdown: **bold**, ## heading, lines starting with - become a list, and links work too. HTML tags are removed; only the text between them stays. Mentions like @name become links.
Click «Save as draft» if you want to come back later, or «Publish».

Only you see a draft – its page carries the notice «This is a draft. Only you can see it.». A stranger opening a draft's address gets the «This page is closed» page, and the draft does not appear in the blog list.

Once published, the post gets a date, and a «wrote a post:» line appears on your wall. To change the post, open it and click «Edit». The same place has «Return to drafts» – the post is hidden from everyone, and the comments under it are kept until you publish again. «Delete» removes the post at once, without a question.

Comments on the blog

Anyone can read a blog, even without signing in. Only signed-in people can comment. At the bottom of a post, type into «Your comment» and click «Send». A comment is at most 2000 characters.

You can delete your own comment with «Delete». The author of the post can also delete any comment under their post. When somebody comments on your post, you get a notification.

Following and the «Feed»

To follow somebody, open their page and click «Follow». The button turns into «Unfollow», their follower count goes up, and they get a «… followed you» notification. Your own page has no such button. A guest who is not signed in cannot follow anyone.

The «Feed» in the header shows stitches and automatic lines from the people you follow, mixed with your own – newest first. There is no algorithm: the feed does not decide what matters more, it simply goes by time. At the bottom there is an «Older» link for earlier posts. If the feed is empty, you do not follow anybody yet.

Following does not open what is closed. If somebody has set «My wall» to «Only me», their posts will not appear in your feed even though you follow them.

Likes and the «Library»

A chart's card in the catalogue has a heart button «♡» with a number. Click it – the heart fills in, and the chart goes into the «Library», section «Liked». A second click takes the mark off. The «📑 Save» button puts the chart into the «Saved» section.

The «Library» in the header gathers all of this in one place: «Saved», «Saved stitches», «Liked» and, if you have bought charts, «Bought». Likes on stitches do not go into the «Library» – they stay under the post itself.

How to report a stitch or a blog post

If a post breaks the community rules, open its page. At the bottom there is a «Report this post» card (on a stitch) or «Report this article» (on a blog post). Choose a category, for example «Spam or advertising», describe the problem in «What exactly is wrong» if you like, and click «Send».

A moderator will look at the report. The author is not told who sent it, and gets no notification about it.
You cannot report the same post again until a moderator has looked at the first report.
You cannot report your own posts – you can simply delete them.
Reporting opens at the «Member» trust level. It arrives on its own once your email is confirmed and you have spent a little time on the site.
Without signing in, a post has a «Report this without an account» link at the bottom – it leads to the general form for reporting a violation.

There is no separate report button on a blog comment: if a comment breaks the rules, report the post and say in «What exactly is wrong» which comment you mean. More about reports is in Rules, reports and support.

If a post has been reported seriously enough, it may be hidden until a moderator decides. In that case you will see «This stitch is hidden while it is looked at» and the reason instead of the post.

How your posts are translated into the other languages

The site works in three languages: Russian, English and Ukrainian. So that readers of another language can understand you too, what you publish is translated through an external language-model service (see the «Privacy Policy»): stitches, the title, summary and text of blog posts, blog comments, and also chart descriptions and reviews.

The site works out the original language from the text. If the text does not tell, it takes the language from your profile. It will not ask you on every publication.
A translation does not appear at once, but a few minutes after publication. For brand-new accounts, posts are translated only once the account has settled in on the site a little.
Translated text carries the label «Translated automatically». If a person has checked the translation, it says «Translated automatically, checked by a person» or «Translated by a person».
The «Show the original» button shows the text as the author wrote it, right in place, and «Show the translation» switches back. The «Open the original (…)» link leads to the same page in the author's language.
Very short texts, links, @name mentions, thread codes and sizes are not translated – they are shown as they are.

Comments are translated by the machine only; nobody proofreads them. If a translation sounds odd, click «Show the original». Posts that have not yet passed a moderator's check are not translated.