Publishing.
One toggle, one boolean, instant effect. Here's exactly what it does.
Draft versus live
Every account has a single switch: Site is DRAFT or Site is LIVE, visible at the top of the Files tab. New accounts start in draft.
While a site is in draft, visiting username.myjay.net
shows a generic "nothing here yet" page, regardless of how many files
you've uploaded. Flip the toggle to live and the exact same files
become reachable at that address immediately.
What flipping the toggle actually changes
One value in the platform's database: whether your site is published. That's the entire mechanism. There's no build, no deploy, no queue, no propagation delay. The very next request to your subdomain sees the new state.
What it doesn't change
- Your files. Unpublishing doesn't delete or hide anything from you, it only affects what the public can see.
- Your access to the dashboard. You can keep editing, uploading, and deleting files while unpublished, exactly as while published.
- Your storage usage. Files count against your quota whether the site is published or not.
In other words: draft mode is a way to work on your site privately before showing it to anyone, or to take it offline temporarily without losing anything. Going back and forth between draft and live as many times as you want has no downside.
Why you might stay in draft
Some people upload everything first and only flip to live once it looks right. Others publish immediately and edit live. Both are fine, there's no difference in how the platform treats a site that's edited publicly versus one drafted privately first.