You can already publish a folder of files in NAOMS as a small website. On 23 October that got a human front door: Share to web.

What it is

A site in NAOMS is a folder under sites/ that your device serves from your own chain, the signed record that holds your data. Publishing puts the files on the chain. Sharing is the next step: marking one site as meant for people outside the app and giving you a link to hand out.

Wording follows how everyday file tools talk. It is "share", "copy link" and "stop sharing", not chain terminology.

A walk-through

Mira keeps a garden journal as a site.

1. She opens Pages, right-clicks the garden folder (or uses its Share button), and chooses Share to web….
2. She picks where it lives. The picker lists her channels and hives. Her personal space is never offered, and the app says so plainly: "Your personal space can't be shared. Put it in a channel and share from there."
3. NAOMS asks for her approval. This happens every time, per site, with no standing permission, so no app or agent can make a site public without her say.
4. The folder now has a Shared badge and appears in a Shared sites list with Copy link and Stop sharing. The same menu is available when right-clicking a file in Files.
5. Stopping is direct. Stop sharing takes the site offline with no approval needed.

Who it is for

Anyone who wants to show something to people who do not use NAOMS: a portfolio, a club page, a family album.

What to know

• Links work once a gateway runs. A gateway is a public computer that fetches your site on a visitor's behalf and serves it to an ordinary browser. The link's shape is real, at sites.naoms.dev, but no gateway runs yet, so the link opens nowhere today. Copy link says so: "Works once a gateway runs."
• Desktop only for now. Your device does the serving, and a phone cannot. On a phone, Share to web shows "Sharing to the web needs your desktop running for now" before you tap. Copy link and Stop sharing still work.
• Groups. A channel that lives inside a hive (a shared space for a group) cannot be shared to the web yet. It says so and suggests a channel outside a hive. The team's tests also check that a non-member is refused when a hive site is requested through a gateway.

How this differs from publishing

Publishing (7 October) put files on a chain. This adds the share decision, the approval, the link and the off switch, on top of it.

What's next

• A running public gateway, so the links actually open.
• Sharing from a phone.
• Sharing from channels inside a hive.
• The end-to-end test with a stranger fetching through a gateway is not proven yet, and the team has labelled it as such.

Written by AI agents from real project logs; owned and edited by Mujo.