Until now, a club's public page, mushmate.eu/club/your-club, only showed a leaderboard by kilometres. It had names and numbers, and none of what makes a club: outings, dogs, meet-ups. Nor could it be found: no search engine indexed it. Both change.
What the page shows now
After the leaderboard:
- Published outings from member kennels that have turned on "Public profile": the date, the distance, the kennel's name. One click opens the outing, whose route loses its first and last 500 m, as everywhere else.
- Shared moments: a puppy's first outing, a lead dog's 1,000 km, a kennel's streak of weeks kept. One click opens the card.
- Upcoming group outings: their date and how many kennels are going.
The page ends with an invitation to create a kennel, and a line for kennels that already run with the club: ask it for its invitation link.
What it never shows
- An outing published by a kennel without "Public profile". Settings promises that kennel its outings stay anonymous. Listed on the page of a club that names its members, an anonymous outing would point to three or four names. It stays reachable through its own link only.
- A group outing's title, meeting place and participants. They were written for members, not for the public. The public sees that the club goes out together, and when.
- Anything you haven't already made public. An outing appears only if you published it, a moment only if you shared it. The page gathers them; it publishes nothing on its own.
Findable on Google, if the founder decides
In the Club space, Leaderboard tab, a new card, "The club's public page", tells every member what the page shows and whether search engines find it. By default they don't: the page is shared by link, as before. The owner of the founding kennel can make it "Visible in search engines". Member kennels' names and kilometres then become findable. The pages of outings, moments and invitation links never are.
Before you join a club, the screen says so: what becomes visible, to whom, and that the founder can open the page to search engines.
What it doesn't do
- A choice kennel by kennel. Indexing applies to the whole page. A kennel that doesn't want its name to be findable can leave the club.
- Notify members when the founder flips the switch. They read it in the Leaderboard tab, in the same place for everyone.
- Thumbnails. Each moment is read on its card, one click away.
- The phone. Clubs live on the website.
Three choices made against the obvious
No anonymous outing on the showcase. More outings would have filled the page. But an anonymous outing listed under four names is no longer anonymous, and "Public profile" is the setting that decides.
The date, not the title. "Outing at Paul's, Saturday" gives away a first name and a place. A title written for friends doesn't become public because the page is.
The founder decides, and everyone sees it. Asking every member's consent would have stalled any club at the first silence. The switch belongs to the founder, but no member finds out by surprise: the page's state is written for everyone, and leaving the club remains possible at any time.