Public Timelines are inaccessible when not logged in

Closed

Feature: Timelines
Reported by: Those2Nerds
Opened: 5 Mar 2026
Assigned to: mikolaszko

Important

Description

Public timelines on public Worlds should be accessible to everyone regardless of their logged in, follower, or subscriber status. However, these timelines are currently inaccessible to anyone who is logged out of World Anvil. When trying to browse to the timeline while logged out, you're instead taken to a generic "Welcome" page, with no indication of what you tried to visit or why it's not showing. I've tried with three different timelines from three different Worlds, all from people who also noticed this issue. I'm using Vivaldi as my browser, though I suspect this isn't browser-specific.

Steps to Reproduce

Copy the share link of a public timeline that's on a public world
Browse to it while logged in and you'll see the full timeline as expected
Log out and try again, and you'll be taken to a generic "Welcome" screen instead

History

Comments and updates to this report

mikolaszko 5 Mar 2026 · 15:28 Assignee

Assigned mikolaszko

mikolaszko 5 Mar 2026 · 15:28 Assignee

Yeah there has been a regression of some sorts while the project was being made, we are working on it

mikolaszko 5 Mar 2026 · 15:31 Assignee

Added tag Important

mikolaszko 5 Mar 2026 · 16:54 Assignee

Okay, there has been an intermediate solution put in place. its not perfect and if you have a private world/private timeline you wont be able to access the normal fallback privacy page but if you use it as intended -> public world and public timeline and logged off you will be able to access it / user that is not an owner

Those2Nerds 5 Mar 2026 · 19:20

Confirming I can now access public timelines on public worlds while logged out. Thank you so much!

mikolaszko 18 Mar 2026 · 11:57 Assignee

set this bug to closed

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