Make your reading profile feel like yours

Public profiles are deliberately simple: a page of bookmarks and quotes that someone can follow in their RSS reader. But a link is more useful when people know whose reading it belongs to, and sharing works better when you have control over what appears there.

The latest profile updates add both.

Add a name and a little context

Your profile can now have an optional display name and description. Use the name people know you by, then add a sentence about what you read or why you share it. Descriptions support Markdown, so you can keep the introduction as plain or as expressive as you like.

The profile URL remains a system-generated ID rather than being tied to your display name. You can change how your profile is presented without having to change every link to it.

Choose how things are published

You can share bookmarks, quotes, or both. For each type, you can choose between automatic publishing and manual publishing:

• Automatic publishing adds new bookmarks or quotes to your profile as you save them.
• Manual publishing keeps them private until you explicitly choose to share them.

This gives you a useful default without taking away the ability to keep a particular item to yourself. Your profile is private until you enable it, and only the content covered by your settings is visible.

Reset the link when you need to

If a profile URL has been shared more widely than you intended, you can reset it from Settings. The old URL stops working for both the profile page and its RSS feed, and a new one is generated.

Resetting the URL is permanent, so it is designed as an intentional privacy control rather than something to do casually. Anyone you still want to follow your reading will need the new link.

Still RSS, still optional

There are no follower counts, likes, or notifications. People can read your profile on the web or subscribe to its RSS feed, without needing a Spoonfed account.

Public sharing remains opt-in and one-way. The new controls just make it easier to decide what that sharing looks like.