Managing your profile

Your profile introduces the person behind the collection. It brings together your public name, username, avatar, biography, published collections, and links to places where people can find more of your work.

Open your profile settings

Select your avatar or account menu in the main navigation, then choose Account & Settings. Make your changes and select Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

Use View Profile from the account menu whenever you want to see the public result.

Update your public identity

The Your Info section includes:

• Full Name — displayed with your username on your public profile.
• Username — your unique Akurium identity and part of your public profile address.
• Email Address — used for signing in and account communication; it is not displayed publicly.
• About Me — a public biography where you can introduce yourself and your collecting interests.

The About Me editor supports basic formatting, lists, and links. A short explanation of what you collect—or why you collect it—is often more memorable than a complete inventory.

Choose an avatar

Your avatar appears on your profile, in navigation, beside comments and activity, and anywhere Akurium identifies you as a collector.

In Profile Settings, select an image in the Avatar field. Use the image editor to crop or adjust it, then save the profile.

Choose an image that remains recognizable at small sizes. A portrait, distinctive object, personal mark, or simple logo usually works better than a photograph with many tiny details.

Change your username

Usernames contain 3–30 lowercase letters, numbers, periods, or underscores. Akurium converts the value to lowercase when it is saved.

Your username forms your public address:

akurium.com/@yourusername

Changing it therefore changes the visible address of your profile, collections, and items. Akurium may redirect older username links, but it is still wise to update places where you have shared the old address.

Caution

Choose username changes deliberately. The new username must be available, and changing it affects the identity people recognize across Akurium.

Add your biography

Use About Me for information that belongs to you rather than to one collection. You might include:

• What you collect
• How the interest began
• The period, region, maker, or style that interests you
• Your approach to photography, research, restoration, or display
• What you hope other collectors will discover

Collection-specific stories belong in collection descriptions, while facts about individual objects belong in item descriptions and attributes.

Link to your work elsewhere

The Elsewhere fields can add links for:

• A website
• Instagram
• Facebook
• YouTube
• X
• Snapchat
• TikTok

Enter the part requested by the field. Akurium displays the service’s URL prefix for you, so a social field may expect a username or channel path rather than another full URL.

Only filled links appear publicly. Remove a value and save the profile when you no longer want that destination shown.

Change your email address

Update Email Address under Your Info, then save your changes. The new address becomes the email associated with your Akurium account and the one you use for email-and-password sign-in.

Use an address you control and can access. It is needed for password resets and other important account messages.

Change your password

In Change Password:

1. Enter your current password when requested.
2. Enter a new password.
3. Enter it again under Confirm New Password.
4. Select Save Changes.

Accounts created through an external sign-in provider may not require a current Akurium password in the same way as email-and-password accounts.

Use a unique password that you do not reuse on another service.

Choose how mature content appears

Turn on Always show mature content unblurred if you do not want Akurium to display blur overlays or mature-content warnings while you browse.

This is a viewing preference for your account. It does not change the audience classification of your own items, and mature items remain marked with an M.

Leave the setting off if you prefer to decide whether to reveal mature content each time you encounter it.

Review the result

After saving, open View Profile and check the profile as a visitor would see it. Review the avatar, name, biography, social links, and published collections together; profile details that look fine in isolation sometimes read differently as a complete introduction.