One of the quickest ways to retreat into some privacy is to take your city “off the map” temporarily or for as long as you like by disabling your Publicity setting. In doing so, new posts will not be promoted sitewide, and your city won’t receive tourists through “Visit a random city.”
Though changing your publicity setting will help you fly under the radar, any posts that were reposted by others may still lead visitors back to your city.
Additionally, previous posts that were tagged and sent to their related universal landmark will still appear in those landmarks unless you first go to the post's edit form and uncheck the universal option.
Once you disable your publicity setting, your city’s original founding announcement will also be unpublished, and tags associated with your tribe and city motto will be retroactively removed from the Heartland until you decide to republicize your city.
Disabling the publicity setting will also prevent others from joining your tribe. Only those who receive a postcard invitation from you will be able to join.
Here’s how to change your city’s publicity setting:
- Choose Profile from the 3 dot Manage menu
- Select the Edit profile link
- On desktop click Promote in the left column menu; on mobile tap the three line menu and select Promote
- Click/tap No thanks. Don’t reveal my city at this time.
- Click/tap Save