Your public address, and what changing it costs

How the address is put together, what visitors see when the page is offline, and why changing your ID is the one setting to think about twice.

On this page

The address is your ID

Your page lives at youcanfind.me/yourname, where the last part is the ID you chose when you signed up. There's no other form of the address to learn, and no query strings to keep track of.

You'll find it, with a copy button, at the top of the page editor once the page is online.

Online and offline

One switch controls whether the address serves your page. Off, and visitors get a placeholder instead — your content is untouched and comes back the moment you switch it on again.

Use it freely. Taking a page down for a week while you rework it is normal, and it beats leaving something half-finished in front of whoever happens to open the link.

What the address serves

One address, one published page. Which page that is — your links page, your resume, or a page you built in Creative Space — is a setting, not a different URL.

Changing your ID

You can change it in Personal Info. Before you do, two consequences are worth reading twice:

Your old ID is released immediately. The moment the change goes through, it goes back into the pool and anyone can claim it. There's no grace period and no way to reserve it.

Every existing link breaks. Whatever is already printed on a card, sitting in an email signature, or pinned in someone's bio points at the old address, and the old address no longer points at you — it may soon point at somebody else.

There's also a cooldown: after a change, the next one is thirty days away. That's there to stop IDs from being churned, and it means a hasty change is a decision you'll live with for a month.

What makes a workable ID

Between five and thirty characters, letters, digits, hyphens and underscores, and at least one letter — a string of only digits isn't allowed.

Beyond the rules, the useful test is reading it aloud. You'll be saying this address to people, and anything that needs spelling out letter by letter will cost you the same thirty seconds every time.

Changing it anyway

Sometimes you should — a name change, a handle you've outgrown, an ID you picked in a hurry. When that happens, change it early rather than after a hiring round or a launch, and spend an afternoon updating the places you know about: profile bios, email signature, anywhere the link is pinned.

The rest will find you eventually, as long as you're not changing it twice a year.

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