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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. The weekly review counts can add up to more than the range’s total: each week counts its distinct reviewed work separately. There is no team list.

To change the view:

  1. Choose 30 days, 90 days, 12 months or All time, or select Custom range.
  2. To count only some repositories, select them under Repository.
  3. 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​

Everyone who contributed to the public repositories, whether or not they are members. People who hid themselves are not on the page, and their work does not count in its totals.

Hide yourself​

You can hide yourself in three ways. Each takes effect at once and covers every public activity page, in every workspace.

  • The first time you open a workspace with a public page, a step asks Show me or Hide me. Both answers have the same weight. Select Decide later, or press Escape, to answer on a later visit.
  • On the page, select Sign in, and sign in with the GitHub or GitLab account that did the work. The same step then asks Show me or Hide me.
  • In User settings, turn off Show me on public activity pages. Turn it on again to return.

Other people see the change when they load the page again. A shared cache can delay that by up to a minute. 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 the workspace’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.