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sizuq orbit

A link hub — one page of links instead of a feed of writing. What it is, how to make one, and where it lives.

What it is

An orbit is a single page of links: the one address you give out when someone asks where to find you. No writing, no dates, no reading — just the places you want people to go, arranged the way you want them.

It is not a separate product you sign up for. An orbit is one of the shapes a garden can take, so everything you already know about gardens applies: it has its own address, it can sit on a domain you own, and it is yours to name.

Making one

There are two routes to the same place, and which one you take depends on whether you already have a garden you want to convert.

  1. From orbit.sizuq.com, which walks you through creating one and picking how it looks.
  2. Or from an existing garden's settings, by changing its layout to Link hub.

Either way you end up with the same thing: a garden whose layout is Link hub, edited from its own screen in settings. Your name, avatar and bio come from your profile — an orbit does not ask you to write them a second time.

Your gardens

It takes the whole page

An orbit is drawn full-bleed. The garden header, the menu and the drawer are all absent, because a link hub that carries a navigation bar is two designs arguing with each other.

That has one consequence worth expecting: the things those chrome elements would have carried are not there either. A language switcher, a menu of pages, a link back to sizuq — none of them appear on an orbit, whatever you have set elsewhere.

Where you edit it

orbit.sizuq.com is the entrance: it introduces orbit, creates one, and lists the ones you have. Editing an orbit's contents, and everything about your account, still happens on sizuq.com.

The split is the same one gardens have. Anything that changes your account — billing, security, your handle — lives in one place, and visiting it from anywhere else simply sends you there.

Next: filling it with links