The manual
Every route in the sidebar, what it actually does, and whether you need an account for it. Read this once and you won't have to guess what a nav item is for — hover any sidebar link and you get the same one-liner as a bubble.
You are browsing as a guest — sign in for the Create, Account and Admin rows.
- Open anyone, no account
- Sign-in required the sidebar hides it and the page sends you to /login
- Admins only needs the admin role
Feed
Anyone| Route | What it's for | Logged out | Logged in |
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Home/ | Start here. Hero + platform stats, trending tags, the tabbed feed (Following / Explore / For You) with search and sorting, the FAQ and a step-by-step tutorial. | Open | Open |
Explore/explore | The full public catalogue. Search by title or tag, sort by newest / oldest / most liked, and narrow it down by category (source domain) or topic. | Open | Open |
Daily Dose/daily-dose | A short, curated list: the five most-liked links posted in the last day. Falls back to random links when the day is quiet. | Open | Open |
Random/random | Hit play and get a random link every 10 seconds. Good for discovering something you would never have searched for. | Open | Open |
Amazing Websites/websites | The same filters as Explore, scoped to the "Website" topic — hand-picked sites instead of every link. | Open | Open |
Discover
Anyone| Route | What it's for | Logged out | Logged in |
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Users/users | A searchable grid of every member. Open a profile to follow them, see their stats and browse the links they shared. | Open | Open |
Leaderboard/leaderboard | Ranks members by the likes their links collected over the last week, month or all time, and shows your own position. | Open | Open |
Tags/tags | Free-form tags across the whole platform, with usage counts. A tag page lists every link carrying it. | Open | Open |
Topics/topics | Around 60 curated topics, grouped into topic-types. Every link must pick one; a topic page filters the feed to it. | Open | Open |
Categories/categories | Domain-based grouping — YouTube, GitHub, news sites and so on. Pick a domain to see every link pointing at it. | Open | Open |
Tools/tools | The developer tools, free and fully public: URL Shortener (24h), Low Weight File Transfer and Text Share (5 min / 1 hour / 24 hours), each with a QR code. Rate-limited per IP. | Open | Open |
Guest Pool/guest-pool | A public, read-only pool of tool output made without an account — short links, files and texts, each with its own countdown. No destroy button: guest rows can only expire, and signed-in output never lands here. | OpenBuilt for guests, open to everyone. No account needed either way. | Open |
Manual/manual | The manual: every sidebar route explained side by side for logged-out visitors and signed-in members, so you know where things live before hunting for them. | Open | Open |
Create
Signed in| Route | What it's for | Logged out | Logged in |
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My Links/manage/links | Your personal dashboard: totals and likes/views/clicks, a searchable and sortable table of your links, plus bulk delete, bulk visibility (public / followers / private) and bulk tagging. | Sign-in requiredHidden when logged out; the data needs a session. | Open |
Post Link/submit | Paste a URL and LnkZoo fetches the title, description, preview image and suggested tags for you to edit. Title, description and a topic are required; you pick the visibility (public / followers / private). | Sign-in required | Open |
Bulk Upload/submit/bulk | Drop in a list of URLs and they are parsed in parallel with streamed progress, auto-tagging via AI and a downloadable report. Regular users get 10 per batch, admins unlimited. | Sign-in required | Open |
Account
Signed in| Route | What it's for | Logged out | Logged in |
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Bookmarks/bookmarks | Everything you saved with the bookmark button on a link card, separated into your own links and everyone else's. | Sign-in required | Open |
Notifications/notifications | Your notification log with read/unread state. The bell in the topbar previews the latest ones. | Sign-in required | Open |
Settings/settings | Account preferences and the sign-out button. Profile details (avatar, cover, bio, website, interests, username) are edited from your own profile instead. | Sign-in required | Open |
Feedback/feedback | A public report board: a title, a description and an optional screenshot, marked public or private per report. Admins triage statuses; you can delete your own. | OpenReads the public board; posting a report needs a sign-in. | Open |
Your Profile/profile | Where your shared links live, along with your header, bio, streak, follower counts and — on your own profile — the Tool Links section listing (and destroying) the short links, files and texts you created while signed in. | Sign-in requiredProfiles need a session; the sidebar link goes to sign-in instead. | Open |
Admin
Admins| Route | What it's for | Logged out | Logged in |
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Dashboard/admin/dashboard | KPIs, growth and engagement charts with a 7D / 30D / 90D / all-time range switcher, plus the flagged-links panel and the feedback triage table. | Sign-in required | Admins only |
Users/admin/users | Every account with an inline role selector (user / prouser / admin) and a ban toggle. | Sign-in required | Admins only |