Instance settings
What the instance calls itself, who can join, what language it defaults to, and the public page.
Settings → General, for admins. Three things about the instance live here, alongside your own name, password and appearance. The public page has a page of its own, at Settings → Public list.
Name
What the instance calls itself — Brunnen Street, not nooks. It appears in the sidebar, on printed sheets and on a public page, so a household name reads better than a product name.
Signup
On by default. Somebody can ask for an account from the sign-in screen, and the request waits in Activity until an admin approves or ignores it. An approved one hands back a temporary password to pass on, the same as adding somebody by hand.
Every account is still an admin's decision. This setting decides who may ask, not who gets in: with it on, anybody who can reach the instance may ask, so if yours is on the internet expect requests to arrive and be decided.
Turn it off and the link goes from the sign-in screen and the request is refused, for somebody typing the address as well. You then add people by hand from Settings → Members.
Default language
The language of anything nobody chose a language for: the public page, a printed sheet, and a member who has not picked one. Members choose their own, and theirs wins.
The public page
One list, published read-only at a stable link. Alongside it:
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Show quantities and dates | On | The metadata a shopper actually needs |
| Show names | Off | Contributor names on the rows |
| Offer to join | Off | A quiet link at the foot for a visitor to ask for an account |
Names are off by default because a public page is about what needs buying rather than about who lives at the address.
Unpublish and the link stops working. A visitor never sees any other list and cannot discover that another one exists.
Deleting the instance
At the foot of settings, and it does what it says: every list, item, member and token. Back it up first — see Back up.