Terranos Manual

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Guest and public browsing ​

Ana's friend sends her a Terranos link on WhatsApp: "Look at this trip." Ana taps it. The activity opens in a browser, she scrolls through the route, the meeting point, who's organizing — all without a Terranos account. She'll only need one if she decides to join.

That's guest mode. It exists for people who want to know what Terranos contains before they create an account.

What you can do as a guest ​

  • Open Discover and browse public activity cards.
  • Open any public activity page — you'll see the title, image, organizer name, schedule, route summary, costs, difficulty, and participant count.
  • Follow shared links and deep links to specific activities (see Sharing and invites).
  • Read Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
  • Open the public profile of an organizer to see their past public activities.

What you cannot do as a guest ​

For obvious reasons, anything that needs an identity is locked:

  • Joining an activity, leaving an activity, or sitting on a waitlist.
  • Posting a comment or writing a review.
  • Sending a message or opening any thread (Messages, Transport, Equipment).
  • Reserving a seat in someone's car or offering one.
  • Declaring equipment for an activity.
  • Bookmarking an activity to come back to later.
  • Seeing participant identities on activities you haven't joined.
  • Using live tracking.

When you tap any of these, the app explains what's locked and offers a one-tap path to sign in.

When you should create an account ​

Three signals that guest mode isn't enough anymore:

  1. You found a trip you actually want to go on. Joining requires a profile.
  2. You want to know who else is going. Participant lists are visible only to people who joined, the organizer, and admins.
  3. You want to come back to this activity later. Bookmarks live in your profile, so you need one.

Sign-in is in Account and login. After that, Getting started walks you through the first ten minutes.

When someone sends you a public Terranos link, you don't need an account to see the activity. The link works in any browser. If you have the app installed, the link opens it; if you don't, the browser shows the public page with a button to install. See Sharing and invites for how the link shape works.

When something looks off ​

  • Discover is empty as a guest. That's normal in a fresh install. The list filters to upcoming public activities; if the feed is light, try the search bar or change the date filter.
  • An activity says "not found" when you open the link. The organizer may have unpublished it, or the share link was revoked. The link is dead either way — ask the person who sent it for an updated one.
  • Some activity details are missing. Some fields (like exact meeting-point coordinates) are only shown to participants. That's by design — it keeps the spot from being indexed by search engines.