Link permissions (moved)

This page describes a control that no longer exists. Shares used to carry two separate settings: a visibility tier (public / unlisted / members) for who could read, and a link_permission tier (none / can_view / can_comment / can_suggest) for what a URL-holder could do beyond reading. The two were folded into one ordered access ladder, and the link_permission column was dropped.

Read Access and passwords instead. The short version:

Old pair Now
unlisted + none access: view
unlisted + can_comment access: comment (the default for new shares)
unlisted + can_suggest access: suggest
members + anything access: restricted
public + a tier the same rung, plus indexed: true

Set it with anchorify access <slug-or-id> restricted|view|comment|suggest [--index|--no-index], on the share settings page, or via POST /api/v1/shares/:id/access. The old anchorify link-perm subcommand and the POST /api/v1/shares/:id/link-permission endpoint were both removed — they don't silently no-op, they fail.

Two things that carried over unchanged:

  • Rate limiting. Comments and suggestions from URL-holders go through the same per-IP token bucket as authenticated writes. See Rate limits.
  • Per-recipient grants. The ladder is one setting for everyone holding the link. "This person can edit, that person can only read" still means an explicit grant — see Doc-level roles.