# Sharing a board

> The three visibility levels, what the public viewer shows, and what happens when somebody forks your board.

Source: https://www.revquix.com/docs/canvas/sharing-a-board
Last verified: 2026-09-04

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Every board starts private. **Share** offers three levels, and the middle one is the reason there
are three rather than two.

| Level                    | Who can read it                                                                                  |
| ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Private**              | Only you.                                                                                        |
| **Anyone with the link** | Readable by anyone you send the link to. Not listed anywhere, and not indexed by search engines. |
| **Public**               | Readable by anyone, and search engines may index it.                                             |

> **Note** - Why link-only is separate from public
>
> Sending a diagram to one colleague and publishing it to the internet are different intentions.
> Collapsing them into one switch makes the safer one unavailable, so a board you only meant to show
> one person ends up indexed.

The board's current level is shown as a badge on the board and in your list, so you can tell at a
glance which of your boards are reachable.

## The link

A share link appears once the board leaves Private. It uses a separate public id, not the board's
own id - so the link you hand out cannot be edited into an address for anything else of yours.

Going back to Private makes the link stop working.

## What a visitor sees

A shared board opens in a read-only viewer. Visitors can look, pan and zoom, and the animation plays
if the board has one. They cannot edit it, and they do not need a Revquix account.

## Forking

The viewer offers **Fork this into your Revquix**, which copies the board into the visitor's own
account.

> **Note** - A fork is a copy, and copies do not stay in step
>
> The forked board is entirely theirs - editing it does not touch yours, and editing yours does not
> change theirs. If you want a diagram that stays current in two places, that is an [embed](https://www.revquix.com/docs/canvas/embedding-a-board-in-a-post) or a [project link](https://www.revquix.com/docs/canvas/pairing-with-a-project), not a fork.

## Related

- [Embedding a board in a post](https://www.revquix.com/docs/canvas/embedding-a-board-in-a-post) - Putting a board in an article.

- [What is public](https://www.revquix.com/docs/account/what-is-public) - Everything else that is visible about you.