Following friends and sharing your profile
Find people by username or display name from the Following page's search, and follow them. Following is one-directional, like it should be: you following someone doesn't oblige them to follow you. When two people follow each other, Stick considers them friends, a status that matters for visibility, below. You'll see a small badge when you've gained new followers since you last looked.
The timeline
The Following page shows a combined timeline of recent plays from everyone you follow, a straightforward reverse-chronological list of what your people are actually listening to, with album art. It's the closest thing Stick has to a feed, and it's built entirely from plays, not posts. If a friend's live connection is set up (Apple Music or a Plex webhook), you're seeing their listening close to real time.
Been listening together, same road trip, same party, same album on repeat all weekend? You can copy plays from a friend's history into your own library, original timestamps preserved, duplicates skipped, so the time you spent listening side by side shows up in both of your stats.
Your profile
Your profile page collects your display name, bio and avatar with your
headline numbers and top artists, albums and tracks over a period you pick
(from 7 days to all time). Edit all of it from the profile page's
Edit Profile dialog. Your profile lives at
stick.tools/u/yourusername.
Who sees what: the visibility model
Visibility is controlled per section, each with three levels: Private (only you), Friends (mutual follows only) and Public.
- Activity visibility covers your listening data, recent plays, top lists, summary numbers, and whether your plays appear in followers' timelines.
- Profile visibility covers the profile page itself. Setting it to Public makes your profile a real public web page: anyone with the link can see it, logged in or not, and search engines can index it.
The defaults are conservative: profiles start private, activity starts friends-only. Nothing becomes more visible without you explicitly changing a setting, and the settings say plainly what each level means before you pick it. A public profile only ever shows what public activity visibility would show: your display name, bio, headline numbers, top lists and recent plays. Never your email, your imports, or anything about who you follow.
A useful middle ground: profile public, activity friends. People who find your profile see who you are and can follow you, but your actual listening stays between friends.
Changing your mind
Nothing here is a one-way door. Drop a visibility level and the change is immediate: set activity back to Friends and your plays vanish from non-friends' views on their next load; set your profile back to Private and the public page stops being served, visitors get the login page instead. Unfollowing is equally undramatic: no notification is sent, their plays simply leave your timeline. And since search engines periodically re-crawl, a formerly-public profile falls out of results on their schedule, the page itself is gone from the open web the moment you flip the setting.
Why share at all?
The old scrobbling web ran on exactly this: a public page of your listening that said more about you than any bio could. If that's your thing, a public Stick profile is that page, your real stats, computed from your whole history, de-duplicated and properly tagged, at a URL you can put wherever you like. And if it's not your thing, leave everything private and Stick works exactly the same, the social layer is optional by design.