Account and Privacy
This page covers the account choices that shape how public or private your Patcher workspace feels.
Account settings — sign-in method, display name, sharing defaults, and data-deletion controls.
Browsing without signing in
You can explore the public side of Patcher without an account, including modules, public racks, public patches, and public profiles.
What signing in unlocks
Once you have an account, you can:
save modules to your collection
build racks
create patches
use the full user area
manage your public profile settings
Sign-in
Patcher supports Google sign-in alongside email-and-password accounts.
Sign-in is linked: signing in again with the same Google identity resolves to the same account, so you do not end up with a second parallel account just because you used a different sign-in entry point next time.
A direct password-change control appears only when your account uses email sign-in exclusively. When Google sign-in is linked — either on its own or alongside email — password changes go through the change-account-type flow instead.
Public vs private items
Profile visibility and item visibility are separate choices.
New racks and patches start Public. You can switch them to Private before creation or at any time later.
Private racks and patches are unlisted: they are hidden from public browse and public-profile listings, but anyone with the token URL can still open them anonymously. Private is not a security boundary — use it to declutter listings, not to protect sensitive material.
For public discovery, both the item and the profile need to be public.
Profile visibility
Your public profile can be switched on or off from your signed-in workspace. When the profile is private, the public profile page at /u/:username is not available to other people.
Profile visibility does not change an item's own visibility. Making a profile Private does not make its existing Public racks or patches Private — that is a separate toggle on each item.
Display name
Your visible display name can be changed at any time from account controls. The underlying username is what makes your profile addressable at /u/:username; the display name is the label people see on the page. See Public Profiles for how the two interact.
Delete data vs delete account
Patcher offers two distinct removal flows so you can walk away from your data without losing the account, or leave entirely.
Delete data clears your workspace — modules, racks, patches, notes — while keeping the account itself. Useful when you want a clean slate but plan to sign back in.
Delete account removes the account and its data.
Both flows are intentional and destructive. Read the confirmation prompt carefully before continuing.
Telemetry
For details on how Patcher handles error monitoring and product analytics, see Telemetry and privacy.
Sharing carefully
Before making your profile public, review:
which racks should be public
which patches should be public
whether your profile link is ready to share
Support
If you need help with account-related issues, start here:
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