A Partyreel profile is a simple page: your name and photo, one line about you if you write one, and the parties you have been to, whether you hosted them or just brought a camera. It exists only if you claim a handle, and nothing on it is a number: no follower counts, no likes, no stats.
Claim a handle
- Account menu
- Account
- Public profile
Your handle is the last part of your profile address, partyreel.com/u/your-name. In the Public profile card, type one into the Profile handle field and tap Save handle. Lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only, 3 to 30 characters, and Partyreel checks availability as you type. Handles are free on every plan, including the free one. (A custom link for an event is a different thing, set in that event's Share panel, and it's on every plan too.)
Right after your photos land on an album, Partyreel offers you one too, because that is the moment your name appears on something. Tapping Claim there brings you straight to this card.
View profile opens your page. Change and Remove do what they say, with one warning worth reading: the old address stops working right away, with no redirect, and the old handle becomes available to anyone.
Your bio
Under the handle there is one line about you, up to 160 characters, shown under your name on your page. It is optional and you can clear it whenever you like by emptying the box and saving. It is one line of plain words: no links, no web addresses, and the same rules about profanity and impersonation that apply to your display name.
What shows on your profile
Your events are one group of cards, each marked Host or Guest.
- Events you host appear only when you turn on Show on my profile in that event's settings (the "Profile" card). Each one opens its album, and a Private album still meets whoever opens it at its gate (the password, your yes, your invite list), or stays closed at Only me.
- Events you added photos to can appear when your photos there have a confirmed email behind them and the album is open to anyone with the link, but none of them do until you say so: the Events you added photos to switches on your account page are off by default, and turning one on is what publishes it there. On an event that asks everyone to add a photo before the album opens, the card shows only to the host and to people who have added their own photo there. These cards show the event and its cover but do not open: being on a guest list is not a way in. Turning one off, or never turning it on, never takes you off that event's own guest list. More in the guest list, and what shows on your profile.
Following
Open any host's profile and tap Follow, and their page is a tap away from your own: the people you follow are listed on your profile page, where only you see them, so you can find a friend's next published album without asking for the link. The button then reads Following, and tapping it again unfollows.
Following is open to anyone with an account, but the graph is private: only you can see who you follow, in Connections on your profile page and in the Connections card on your account page, and that card tells you how many people follow you, never who. Nobody else sees any of it. In the card, the Following beside a name is the way to stop: it switches off at once and the person leaves the list.
Reporting and blocking
The more-options menu on anyone's profile holds both.
Report this person sends what you write to our team for review. They are not told who reported them, reporting doesn't block them, and nothing about your view changes.
Block is mutual and silent: you stop following each other, neither of you can follow the other again while the block is on, and they aren't told. Blocked people are listed in your Connections card, where Unblock undoes it.
A block only affects following. It doesn't hide an album from someone who has its link; for that, see who can see your event.