The default privacy posture on The Dirty Mule is private. Nothing about you is publicly visible until you choose to make it so.
What’s private by default
- Your profile page at
/wheelers/your-username/— only you and admins can see it - Your saved trails and places — only you see these, regardless of profile visibility
- Your trips — only you and people you invite
- Your email address — never displayed publicly anywhere
What’s never private
- Public trail ratings, reviews, and condition reports you submit — these are publicly visible on the trail page, attributed to your username (or “anonymous” if you choose)
- Comments or messages you send in public-facing UI
Making your profile public
Go to your account page, click the Profile tab, and check Make my profile public. When public, anyone — including not-logged-in visitors — can see your bio, rigs, badges, and run history at /wheelers/your-username/. Your saved trails and trips remain private regardless.
You can switch this off again any time. When private, the profile page shows visitors a friendly “this wheeler keeps a low profile” message instead.
Trip privacy
Trips are private to you (and any crew members you’ve invited). You can share a specific trip with a link by generating a share token from the trip’s edit panel — anyone with that link can view the trip read-only without an account.
Generated share links can be revoked. Revoking invalidates the link immediately.
What other wheelers see about you
When you submit a public action — rating a trail, writing a condition report, contributing a new trail — your display name and username appear next to that contribution. If your profile is public, others can click through to see more. If private, the link goes nowhere useful and they just see your name.