Frequency helps people find community near them, which only works if you trust
how your location is handled. So here's the deal, plainly: we never share your
exact location with anyone. Not other members, not on maps. Others only ever see
a coarse area or your city, and every control below is yours.
Everything here lives in Settings → Connections & Location, and changes save
instantly.
Who can find you
- Ghost mode. The master switch. One tap and you vanish from proximity and
maps entirely; every other setting below is paused until you turn it off.
- Show me in the Community directory. Whether you're listed in the member
directory at all.
- Who can find me nearby. No one, only your connections, or the whole
community. This controls who can surface you by location.
- Discoverability radius. Your own slider for how far away someone can be and
still discover you.
How precisely you're shown
You choose the most anyone can ever see:
- Hidden. No one sees your location at all.
- City. Others see only your city.
- Neighborhood. Others see a fuzzed area about a mile across, never your
exact spot.
Proximity features need a home location, so if you haven't set your city on your
profile yet, that's the first step.
Live location (optional)
By default, "near you" means near your home city. If you're traveling, or at a
festival and wanting to find your people there, you can turn on Live location.
Honest fine print, the same way the app says it:
- It's a snapshot, not a tracker. Turning it on captures your position once
via your browser; it updates when the app captures it again, not continuously.
Treat it as "roughly where I was."
- Still never exact. Your precision setting above applies exactly the same.
Live or not, others see the fuzzed area or city you chose, never coordinates.
- It doesn't widen your audience. "Who can find me nearby" still applies;
going live never exposes you to anyone it wouldn't have before.
- One tap off. Turning it off reverts to your home city. Ghost mode overrides
it entirely, anytime.
- Use it thoughtfully. Sharing where you are in real time always carries some
risk. Enable it in communities you trust, and when in doubt, leave it off.
What about maps?
The map on a circle's page plots the circle's public meeting spot and event
venues, never member locations. There are no member pins, period.
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