If you have ever felt uncomfortable with public leaderboards where random strangers can see your activity, Buddzy has some great news for you. Your rankings are completely private. Nobody outside your actual friend circle can see where you stand, and there is no way for strangers to stumble onto your profile through search or discovery features.
How It Works
Rankings in Buddzy operate on a strict mutual friends only visibility rule. Here is what that means in practice:
- Only mutual friends see your rankings — If you and someone else have both added each other as friends, you can see each other's position on the leaderboard. If the friendship is not mutual, neither of you appears on the other's rankings.
- No public profiles — There is no way to search for a random user and see their stats. Buddzy does not have a public directory, a global leaderboard, or any form of open discovery.
- No external visibility — Your rankings cannot be found through search engines, scraped by bots, or accessed by anyone outside the app.
Why This Matters
Public leaderboards create weird dynamics. They attract stalkers, enable bullying, and turn social apps into popularity contests visible to the entire world. Buddzy flips the script entirely. Your rankings are a private celebration between you and your friends. They are about who in your crew is putting in the most love, not about how you compare to millions of strangers.
This means your Current Orbit standings, your weekly rankings, and your all-time stats are all safely tucked behind the mutual friendship wall. Someone would need to be your actual friend — and you would need to have accepted them as well — to see any of it.
What About Shared Ranking Cards?
When you share a ranking card on social media, you are choosing to share a snapshot voluntarily. That card shows your position but does not give anyone access to your profile or the rest of your leaderboard. It is a flex, not a doorway.
Pro Tips
- Be intentional about who you add as friends. Your friend list determines who sees your rankings.
- If you ever want to remove someone's visibility into your stats, just remove them as a friend.
- Ranking cards are great for hyping up your crew on social media without exposing anyone's full profile.
Good to Know
This private ranking system is one of the things that makes Buddzy feel like a safe space. Your stats, your Stars, and your leaderboard positions belong to your circle and nobody else. No random person on the internet is going to judge your gameplay.