Sharing a submission or result publicly
Make a submission or result visible to anyone, only to specific people, or revoke sharing.
Each submission/result has three visibility states:
- Private. Only you can see it. This is the default.
- Public. Anyone with the link can read the result. The result also appears on your public profile.
- Invite only. Only the email addresses you list can see the result. They need a Vilvik account to open the link.
You change the state from the Share menu on the submission/result page.
What becomes visible when you make a result public¶
- The result's name and description.
- The fitness chart and the best solution found.
- The parameters used.
- The fitness function code, if you provided one. If your code has secrets in it, do not share publicly.
- Your run report, if you wrote one. See Run report below.
What does not become visible:
- Your email address or any account details beyond your username and any profile fields you marked public.
- The downloads (raw data files) unless you turn that on too.
Run report (write-up)¶
The submission page has a Report section where you can attach a longer write-up to the run: what problem you were trying to solve, how you picked the parameters, what surprised you, what worked. It supports basic markdown (headings, bold, italics, lists, links, code blocks, blockquotes, tables). HTML you paste in is rendered as text, not as HTML.
The report is private until you make the submission public. While the submission is public, the report is visible alongside the results. To hide the report on a specific public submission without erasing it, open the share modal and untick Report (write-up) in the section list. Empty reports are never shown.
If your submission is in the public gallery, runs with a report carry a small Notes pill on their gallery card so readers can spot the ones with write-ups.
Inviting specific people¶
Pick Invite only and add their email addresses. They will get an email with a link. If they do not have a Vilvik account, they will be asked to create one before they can read the result. You can revoke an invite at any time.
Listed in the public gallery¶
When a submission is Public, the share modal also offers a List in public gallery checkbox. Tick it to make the submission discoverable in the community gallery; leave it unticked to keep the submission accessible only by direct link. The same modal exposes two further opt-ins, letting visitors re-execute or edit the submission as a draft. See Public gallery for what each option does on the viewer side.
Continuing from a shared result¶
If someone opens your public result, they can press Continue to fork it into their own account. Their continue does not affect your result. See Continue a submission.
Revoking sharing¶
Open the share menu and switch back to Private. The link stops working immediately. People who already created a new result out of it or downloaded files keep their copy; we cannot retract that.
Sharing a problem (not just your result)¶
The above is about sharing one of your own runs. If you want to share the problem itself (so others can try it), use the Share button on a quick problem page. That link opens a public page introducing the problem, with a preview image and a "Try it free" button, so anyone can open it even before signing in. See Sharing and recording.