Sharing projects

To share a project with the community, go into a project and click the share project-button in the top right corner. This will open a modal where you have the option to turn on sharing.

When you toggle sharing, you will also get access to more options; like whether or not you want to include the journal and measurements. You can also add a description (similar to a caption on Instagram), and arrange the images you want to include in your shared project.

Note: you have to click save to confirm these options and share your project.

When you share a project, most of the information in it will be shared, unless you have chosen to omit it. When sharing a project you can decide to omit the journal and measurements, and you can uncheck the images you don't want to share. You can also choose to make individual journal entries private if there are specific ones you'd rather keep to yourself. You can do this in the Journal tab, when editing a journal entry.

When a project is shared, any new information or changes to the project will be included by default (unless you've chosen to omit it specifically, like the journal or measurements).

There are some details we don't include in the shared project:

• To do list
• To buy list
• Tags
• Which collection it belongs to
• Start date and/or deadline

Once a project is shared, you will be redirected to the public view of your project. This is located on a different URL than when you're working on or editing your project.

Editing link: threadloop.app/projects/XX
Public link: threadloop.app/members/username/projects/project-name

The editing URL is not unique and should not be shared with others, as it is just a sequential ID (for example; if it's the tenth project you've created on Threadloop it will be …projects/10). If you share it with someone who has a Threadloop account, and a project with the same number ID, they will just see their own project instead of yours. If you want to share a project with someone else, use the public link.
 

You will get two new buttons on top of the project when a project is shared: settings and public view. Settings will open the modal with your sharing options, and here you can choose to change any of these options or un-share the project by toggling it off and clicking save. The Public view-button will direct you to how the project looks like to other members.

When you're on the public view of a project, you can click the options button in the top right corner (three dots) and click Copy link.
 

Here is an example of how a project can look in both the edit and public view. As you can see, they're quite different!

You might also notice that there are some details added to the project's public view automatically, like the review/rating of patterns. This will show up if you have a review of a pattern you've included in the shared project.

Once you've shared a project with the community, you might receive compliments or comments on your project. You can manage if you receive notifications when someone compliments or comments on your project in your notification settings.

If the compliment notification is on, it will include the username of the person leaving a compliment, but not which compliments they have given. If the notification is turned off, the compliments will be received anonymously and are only found if clicking 'View compliments'.

Click 'View compliments' to see if your project has any. Only you can see these compliments and how many you've gotten.

The homepage will show a few latest shared and completed projects, but you can browse all shared projects at once to see what other sewists are up to. 

Here you can filter by many parameters of the project, or by the patterns and/or fabrics used. The filters will not be listed exhaustively here, but some special mentions are:

• Status - filter by status of the project, for instance to only see completed projects
• Pattern - see projects that use a specific pattern
• Designer - see projects using any pattern from a specific designer
• Fabric attributes - filter by structure, composition, color and print. To find projects using particular type of fabric, for example:
  • white (color)
  • striped (print)
  • silk (composition)
  • organza (structure)
• Pattern type, body type and age group - based on attributes of the pattern(s) used in the project
• Measurements - of the recipient, if shared. This can be filtered using a range like the members page filter
• Members - to view someone's projects with more control over filters and sorting
• Text search - will match on pattern name, designer, description, journal, and name of fabric used