What is my livedot link, and how do I claim it?
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Your livedot link, such as livedot.me/thandi, is your follow link with a name you choose: one link for every race, in Windline and RunFast. Claim it in Account at app.windline.tech. It shows what your follow link shows, race by race, and works on a race only while People I approve is ticked. It isn’t a social profile.
What it is
Your livedot link is your follow link with a name you choose: livedot.me and your name, such as livedot.me/thandi. Share it once, in your bio or your club’s group chat, and it works for every race you go live on, in Windline and in RunFast.
It isn’t a social profile. There are no posts, no followers list and no bio: it shows where you are while you race, and the races you have coming up.
Claim it
- Sign in at app.windline.tech and open Account.
- Under Your livedot link, type a name after livedot.me/. Pasting a whole link works too.
- Windline checks it as you type: Available, Taken, or Not allowed with the reason.
- Click Claim.
How this works, at the foot of the card, opens the short version of the rules below. Release my handle is under it.
It’s yours straight away. The card shows it whole, livedot.me and your name, with Copy and, where your browser can share, Share. Under it: “One link for every race. Share it once.” You need a confirmed email address and your first and last name on your account. If a name isn’t available, see why a livedot name is reserved or taken.
In the Windline app on iPhone and Android, it’s Settings → Your livedot link, with the same check, Copy and Share. It comes in the apps’ next update. livedot.me itself has no sign-in: you claim your link in Windline or RunFast.
The name rules
- 3 to 30 characters: the letters a to z, numbers and hyphens.
- Start with a letter, and end with a letter or a number.
- No double hyphens.
- Capitals don’t count: livedot.me/Thandi is livedot.me/thandi.
Some names are kept back: livedot’s own pages, our names, well-known events (kept for their organisers), brands and sport bodies, club and organiser pages, and offensive words. Club and organiser pages live at livedot.me/their-name too, so the two share one set of names.
What people see
Someone who opens your livedot link sees exactly what your follow link would show them, race by race. They need no app and no account.
| When | What they see |
|---|---|
| You’re racing | They go straight into the race’s live view on windline.tech, with Stay with on, following your dot. In two races at once, both show, and they choose. |
| You’re not racing | Your first name and the first letter of your last name, your photo if you’ve added one, your public races coming up with live tracking on, or “No races coming up”. Never a private race. |
| No one has the name | “No one at livedot.me/…”, with a search and Get your event live. |
On your livedot page, Follow keeps you on their list on that device, and they can open you in the Windline app for alerts when you start. Your follow code never shows in the address. Once the apps’ next update is out, a tap on your link opens the Windline app on phones that have it.
Private races
A private race never appears on your livedot page: not by name, not by date, and not while you’re live on it. People following you on a private race use your follow link, never your livedot link. It shows you on the race while People I approve is ticked, with your first and last kilometre and your times hidden.
Search engines
Your livedot page can show in search engines only while you’re Findable by anyone on a public race with live tracking on, live or coming up. It then shows only the races you’re Findable on, and never a private race. The rest of the time, it tells search engines not to show it. See Findable by anyone.
People I approve controls it, race by race
Your livedot link works on a race only while People I approve is ticked on that race’s Live tracking card, the same as your follow link. Untick it, and your livedot link shows nothing live for that race, and the race leaves your list of races coming up. See who can see you.
A follow code is random, but a name is easy to guess. Anyone who knows your livedot link can follow you on the races where your link works:
- To stop that on one race, untick People I approve on it.
- To stop it everywhere, release your livedot link.
- Reset link gives you a new follow link, and doesn’t change your livedot link.
Change it
You can change your livedot link once every 30 days, counted from when you claimed it or last changed it. Type the new name under Change it, click Change, then Change again to confirm.
- Your old link keeps working for 30 days, and takes people to the new one.
- No one else can claim the old name for 90 days. It’s held for you: type it in again and Windline says “Held for you: take it back”. Taking it back counts as a change.
- Until you can change again, the card gives the date instead of the field: “You can change it again from” and the day. After a release, it says “You released your link lately: you can claim one again from” and the day.
Release it
Click Release my handle, then Release:
- Your livedot link stops at once, everywhere: on Windline and RunFast. An old name still redirecting to it stops too.
- Anyone who followed you through it stops following. Your follow link keeps working.
- The name is held for you for 90 days. No one else can claim it, and you can take it back 30 days after your last change. After 90 days, anyone can claim it.
One link for Windline and RunFast
You have one livedot link across both apps. If you have a RunFast account with the same confirmed email address, the two link by themselves: claim it in either app, and the other account gets it too, straight away or the next time you open Your livedot link there. The card then shows “Windline and RunFast” beside its title, and your livedot page shows your races from both apps and opens the one you’re racing in.
If your RunFast account uses a different email address, or hasn’t confirmed it, the two aren’t linked.
If you delete your account
Your livedot link stops at once, and no one can claim it for 90 days. If it’s on your RunFast account too (the card shows “Windline and RunFast” beside its title), it stays with that account. See deleting your account.
The rules
The rules for livedot links, including when we can take one back, are in the Terms of Use. What’s kept, and for how long, is in Privacy.
Your livedot link is in Account at app.windline.tech now, and comes to Settings in the iPhone and Android apps in their next update. Anyone can open a livedot link in any browser.