Posts are the content behind a profile’s Blogs tab. Long-form writing you publish under your own @handle, separate from any project or template.
Reading and editing are different surfaces
A published post reads at /post/:slug. Editing it happens at a different URL, /post/:slug/edit, signed in and only if you’re the owner. The backend answers a plain 404 (never 403) for a post that isn’t yours, so this URL can’t be used to discover that someone else has a draft.
The editor is never indexed, and a signed-out visitor is redirected to sign in before it ever loads. Its Preview is how you see an unpublished draft rendered: the public reader at /post/:slug never serves a draft, even to its own owner.
The slug is minted once
A post’s slug, the part of the URL after /post/, is assigned the first time you publish, and frozen from then on. A draft that’s never been published has no slug yet, so its edit link addresses it by id instead; publishing is what gives it the permanent URL. This is also why you can’t change a post’s URL after the fact by renaming it later.
Posts vs. the Flowy journal
/post/:slug is for creator posts: yours. It’s a different surface from the Flowy journal at /blog/:slug, which is Flowy’s own editorial content. The two are kept apart deliberately: the journal’s URLs were already indexed before creator posts existed, so they stay at /blog/:slug rather than moving. Each surface redirects to the other if you reach it through the wrong door, so any given post resolves to exactly one canonical URL. Last modified on August 29, 2026
