Share with people and teams
Invite anyone by email, add a note they'll actually read, and spin up a team without leaving the dialog. Sharing a hike now takes one place and a few seconds.
Sharing used to live in two places: a Share button for the link and a separate Access screen for who could open it. Over the last week we folded both into one Share dialog and kept adding to it. You can now invite people by email, tell them why in a comment, and create a team, all without leaving the hike you're looking at.
Invite anyone by email
Type an email and click Share. The person gets view access right away, even if they don't have a UI Hike account yet. Access applies the moment they sign in with that address.
Who has access lists everyone in one place: you as the owner, each team with its member count and a small Team badge, and each person you invited. Remove anyone with the ×. If general access is still Restricted when you invite someone, the dialog warns you and offers a one-click switch to link access.
Say why you're sharing
A link on its own doesn't say why it matters. Click Share with comment under the email box (it reads Add comment once you've typed an address) and a separate view opens with who it's going to, a larger comment box and its own Share button. It works the same way it does in the Chrome extension.
Press Escape or the back arrow to return without losing what you wrote. The comment then sits under the email box as a one-line preview you can click to edit, or clear with the ×.
The comment shows up in the invite email, quoted and signed with your name. Invites now come from Your name via UI Hike, and replies go straight to you, not to a no-reply inbox.
Create a team from the dialog
Sharing with the same five people again? Make them a team. Add team lists every team you can give access to, with its color and member count, and Create new team sits at the bottom.
Give the team a name and a color, and optionally invite people by email. Create and share makes the team and gives it access to this hike in one step. Each person you add gets an email with the hike and their own link to join the team.
The Add team button is ringed in the colors of the teams you can add, and washes with that color on hover. It's a quick way to see that there's a team you haven't given access yet.
Choose who can open it
General access works the same for hike projects and published hikes. Restricted keeps it to the people and teams above, with sign-in required. Anyone with the link can view without signing in, and it isn't listed or indexed. Public lists it in public collections and lets search engines index it, so we ask you to confirm before anything goes Public. Changes save as you make them and show a short Saved confirmation.
If you open a shared link while signed out, you now land back on that hike after you sign in instead of on the home page.