Choose your layout
The layout decides what members see when they open your circle. Find it in Console → Settings → Appearance. Only the circle owner and admins can change it; for other members of the team the Appearance section is read-only.
The four layouts
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- Best for
- Chat communities built around channels and posts
- What members see
- A home timeline organized by channel, an Explore page, and Mine.
- Tab bar
- Home · Explore · Mine
- Owner tools
- Channels (Classic only)
- Best for
- Publishing and curated reading
- What members see
- A curated feed gathered from outside sources. Members follow the sources they like to shape their own timeline.
- Tab bar
- Home · Sources · Stories · Profile
- Owner tools
- Home entries, starter pack (Story Hub only), custom tab names and banner
- Best for
- Tool directories and multi-entry navigation
- What members see
- One directory page that takes members straight to the circle's bots and links.
- Tab bar
- Home · Profile
- Owner tools
- Home entries, friendly links
- Best for
- Signal and live-trade communities with locked paid posts
- What members see
- A dark home with three channels — News, Courses, Strategies — plus pages the owner pins to the tab bar.
- Tab bar
- Home · Your page · Profile
- Owner tools
- Home entries, friendly links, tab-bar page slots
Switching never loses anything — posts, members, and orders carry over. Only the presentation changes.
Classic is the default. Story Hub and Trading Hub are Circle VIP layouts: without VIP their cards carry a badge and stay unselectable, with the upgrade link right on the card.
The layout rail and switching
Section titled “The layout rail and switching”The Appearance section is a horizontal layout rail: one preview card per layout, the current layout pinned first. Pick another layout and hit “Save layout” — the console shows a confirmation dialog with an impact summary of which features become available and which stop being available, and only switches after you confirm.
Switching deletes nothing: posts, members, and orders all carry over, and layout customization is stored in the circle’s layout settings — switch back later and everything is as you left it. What changes is availability: channels are Classic-only, strategy management and live courses are Trading Hub-only, the starter pack is Story Hub-only, and home entries exist in Story Hub / Community Hub / Trading Hub. Every switch and every customization is recorded in the change history.
Layout customize: what each layout can change
Section titled “Layout customize: what each layout can change”Each layout card’s “Layout customize” button opens a side sheet. Classic and Community Hub have nothing to customize — the console says so — while the two VIP layouts each get their own sheet:
- Story Hub: navigation labels, what you call sources / stories, and the home title / subtitle / banner, plus a Home entries tab — see Customize Story Hub.
- Trading Hub: the home channels (order, on/off, short names) and the bottom nav slots, plus home entries, showcase pages, and cards managed right in the sheet — see Customize Trading Hub, Home entries, and Showcase pages & cards.
While a layout switch is pending, the customize button stays disabled until you save or discard the switch; closing the sheet with unsaved edits asks first.
Outside the sheet, the Appearance section keeps the layout-independent switches: shareable post cards, post tags (up to 20), and the trading entry and types (Trading Hub) — see the settings reference. The app card cover used when a post is shared to Mixin (≤5 MB) lives in Welcome experience.