Where members manage their profile, requests and connections

What the member portal for communities shows

How members sign in

1. 1The member opens the member page address their organisers share.
2. 2They enter the WhatsApp number they use with the community, with the country code, and tap Send me a code after a bot check.
3. 3A 6-digit code arrives on WhatsApp from the community's number. It works for 10 minutes.
4. 4They enter the code and tap Sign in.

The form answers the same way whether or not a number belongs to a member, so nobody can use it to find out who is in a community. After 5 wrong codes the member asks for a new one, and signing out can end every session on other phones and computers at once.

Connections from completed introductions

A connection appears only after a double opt-in introduction finishes: both people said yes and both numbers were sent. A request that is still open, was declined or expired never shows anyone's number. Members see the details in Your connections.

• Each connection shows the other person's name, headline, city and approved photo, You asked or They asked with the request summary, and when they were introduced.
• Up to 5 of their answers that they marked as shown in introductions are listed too.
• On WhatsApp, /connections lists the 10 newest, and Send contact again resends a number once a day per connection, up to 5 times a day.
• Hide removes a connection from the member's own list. The other person still sees it and isn't told.

Who can see a member

• List me in the member directory: signed-in members, or anyone if the community made its directory public, see name, approved photo, headline, city and skills.
• Give me a public profile page: a page on the community's mini-site, only if the community allows public profiles.
• Let search engines show my public page: only with a public page. Turning it off asks search engines to drop the page.
• A photo shows to others only after an organiser approves it. The WhatsApp number is never shown, and switching a choice off removes the member straight away.

Contact requests and blocking

When the community allows Contact, a member listed in the directory or with a public profile can receive a contact request. The person asking confirms their WhatsApp number with a one-time code and writes one line of 10 to 300 characters, with phone numbers, emails and links removed. Only that member is asked, with Accept and Decline and 48 hours to answer, and the offer counts toward the usual 2 in 7 days. People who aren't members become guests, who can't receive requests and aren't listed.

Each requester can send 3 contact requests a day and 10 a week, and a member has at most 5 open at once. A member can block someone on WhatsApp after Decline, or from Requests or Connections on the portal. The blocked person can't send them contact requests in that community, isn't offered as a match and isn't told. Limits and guests: contact requests.