Community, Your Public Profile and Privacy Controls

GYMKA has a social side, but it is opt-in by design. Nothing about your training is public until you decide it is. This guide covers what the community offers and every control you have over your own visibility.

What is in the Community tab

• Chat, the shared conversation, including group chats.
• Ranks, the leaderboards, built on per-exercise calibrated tiers.
• Messages, direct conversations with other lifters.

Once you have logged a lift you unlock a mastery tag, a small badge shown beside your name in chat that reflects your strength tier.

Your public profile

Every account has a profile page at /u/ plus your user ID. You manage it in Settings → Privacy & Social, and the Profile tab shows a live preview of exactly what visitors see. It starts with one switch:

• Private (the default): visitors see your username, picture and follower counts, and nothing else.
• Public: your body map and your training record become visible too.

A public profile shows sets logged, exercises trained, gym days, personal records, total volume lifted and your best tier, alongside your level and day and week streaks. Below that sit your cardio totals, sessions, distance and time, a tier spread showing how many exercises sit at each rank, when you joined, when you last trained, and your top lifts.

Public does not have to mean everything. Under What people can see, each part of the page has its own switch: level and streaks, body map and top lifts, training totals, cardio, habit clocks, follower counts, and when you joined and last trained. Anything switched off is withheld by the server, not just left off the screen.

People can follow or message you either way. Your follower and following counts show too, unless you switch them off.

Social links

Settings → Privacy & Social lets you add optional links to Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Facebook, Strava or your own website. Tap a platform, paste your profile link or type your handle, and it appears as an icon on your profile.

Each link has its own show-on-profile switch, so you can keep one saved without publishing it. GYMKA stores only the handle and rebuilds the link itself, which means a profile can never link somewhere unexpected.

Deleting your own messages

Every message you have sent, in the community chat, a direct message or a group, carries a small bin icon beneath it. Tap it, confirm, and the message is gone for everyone in that conversation, not just hidden on your side. There is no undo, so the confirmation is deliberate.

You can only delete your own messages. Moderators can remove anyone’s, which is how reported content is taken down.

Blocking and reporting

Any user-posted content can be reported, and any user can be blocked, blocking hides their content from you and stops them contacting you. Reports go to a moderation queue that is actually reviewed, and an offending message can be deleted outright from it. GYMKA’s terms carry a zero-tolerance policy for abusive content, and accounts that post it are removed.

Your data, and deleting it

Settings → Account holds account deletion. It is a genuine cascade: your lifts, routines, cardio sessions, meals, messages, profiles and account record are all removed, not flagged as hidden. The full detail of what is stored and why is in the privacy policy, linked from Settings → Support & Info.

If you want the training benefits and none of the social side, leave the profile private and never open Community. Every feature in the app works exactly the same.