Public activity page
A workspace can publish a public activity page. Anyone can open it, without signing in. It lists who contributed to the workspace’s public repositories. It counts work and does not grade it.
Open the page at the workspace’s address.
When your instance uses workspace subdomains, this is an address such as https://acme.hephaestus.build.
Otherwise, use the workspace path, such as https://hephaestus.build/w/acme.
Sign-in and account settings use the instance address in both cases.
Your light or dark theme stays the same on every workspace address.
Members who are signed in open their own workspace home at that address instead.
What the page shows
The page shows the same people table as Workspace activity, with only public work:
- Public repositories only. Work in a private repository never appears.
- Pull requests, reviews and issues. On GitLab, merge requests, reviews and issues.
- People, not bots. Automation accounts never appear.
Select a name to open that person’s activity for the selected range and repositories. Their profile link opens GitHub or GitLab. Below the totals, Repositories shows where they contributed, and Timeline lists their public work. Select a work title to open it at the provider. Select a pull request, review or issue total to see its weekly counts and timeline. On GitLab, the pull request total is called Merge requests.
Weeks start on Monday in UTC. Select Show weekly contributions to read the exact contribution counts by week. There is no team list.
To change the view:
- Choose 30 days, 90 days, 12 months or All time, or select Custom range.
- To count only some repositories, select them under Repository.
- To sort the table, select a column heading.
The address of the page keeps the range, the repositories, the sort and the open person or activity detail. Share it, and others see the same view.
The page never shows practices, feedback, Slack, Outline, or the content of an AI review.
Who is on it
Workspace members and people who signed in to Hephaestus are on the page only after they choose to show. People who contributed without an account are not named, unless a workspace admin chooses to name them. The page counts people who are not named as a number of contributors, such as and 3 more contributors. Their work is not in the page’s figures.
Workspace admins, and instance admins who manage a workspace, can see whether you answered the question. The list of members does not say which way you chose, but anyone who knows your work can see whether the page shows you.
Show or hide yourself
Your choice takes effect at once and covers every public activity page, in every workspace. Until you choose, every public page hides you.
- In a workspace with a public page, a notice at the top of your page asks you. Select Show me or Hide me. Both answers have the same weight. Select Decide later to hide the notice for this visit. It returns on your next visit until you answer.
- In User settings, turn on Show me on public activity pages to show. Turn it off to hide.
After you answer, the notice closes and a message confirms your choice. User settings always shows your saved choice.
Other people see the change when they load the page again. A page that is already open in a browser keeps its contents until it loads again.
If you have no account and prefer not to sign in, ask your instance’s privacy contact. A workspace admin can hide you from the page.
Search engines
A public page asks search engines not to list it, unless the workspace allows them. That is a request. Anyone with the address can open the page.