Collections go public — share a channel list, embed it anywhere

When we shipped collections, they did one job: group a handful of Telegram channels so you could track them as a unit. Useful, but private — a notebook only your organization could open.

That never quite matched what people were doing with them. Collections were being curated: "the channels worth reading on the war", "every airdrop account that isn't a scam", "the Russian tech press, ranked". Lists like that are worth more when someone else can read them.

So collections are now publishable. This post walks through everything that landed.

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TL;DR

• Publish any collection to its own public link at statiko.io/c/{id} — no account needed to read it
• Order your channels by dragging them; the order you set is the order everyone sees
• Embed a collection on your blog or newsletter as a card or a strip — it updates itself
• Stars — anyone signed in can star a public collection, and every star lands on a new Starred page
• A dedicated settings page for each collection, where all of this lives

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Publish with one toggle

Every collection now has a visibility setting: Private (the default, and exactly how collections behaved before) or Public.

Flip it to Public and the collection is served at statiko.io/c/{id} to anyone with the link — signed in or not.

Private stays properly private. The link is unguessable, and nobody can tell a private collection apart from one that was never there.

You can also decide whether your name shows up. Show curator name puts a "Curated by" line — your name and avatar — on the public page and the embeds. Turn it off and the collection stands on its own.

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The public page

It looks like something you'd want to send someone: your title and description up top, your name underneath if you want it there, then the channels — each with its photo, handle, categories and subscriber count, one tap from the full channel view.

Three things sit in the header:

• Star — a running count that anyone signed in can add to. Not signed in? Tapping it explains why and brings you back here afterwards.
• Share — copies the link, tagged so we can tell where a visit came from.
• Summarize these daily — the interesting one. It hands the whole collection to Recaps.

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Embed it anywhere

A public collection is also a widget. Open Get embed code in settings, pick a variant, preview it, copy the snippet:

<iframe
  src="https://statiko.io/c/{id}/embed?style=card"
  width="100%"
  height="440"
  frameborder="0"
></iframe>

Here's that same card, live:

The card is built for a sidebar or the middle of an article: header, channel rows, a "view all" footer. The strip is a 148px-tall banner — title, overlapping avatars, channel and star counts, one button. Both read the same live data as the public page, so the embed updates itself as you add channels. You paste the snippet once.

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Stars, and a place to keep them

Any signed-in user can star any public collection, and every star shows up on the new Starred page under Collections in the sidebar.

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Try it

Open any collection, hit Settings, flip visibility to Public, and send someone the link. If the list is good, someone will star it.

And if you build something with the embed, tell us — we want to see where these end up.