Sharing Your Roster: Snapshots, Links and the Marketplace

Updated October 12, 2026 6 min read

Building the roster is half of it. The other half is the argument that follows when you post it. Fighter Roster shares rosters as snapshots, and understanding how they behave will save you from the two classic problems: a link that changed after people commented on it, and a link that stopped working.

What a snapshot is

A snapshot is a frozen copy of a roster at the moment you share it. It stores the fighters, their art, the theme and its settings, and it gets its own address in the form fighterroster.com/roster/shared/ followed by an eight-character code.

Because it is a copy, later edits to your pack do not alter it. You can keep working, delete fighters or rebuild the whole thing, and the link people already have keeps showing what you shared. When you want the shared version to change, update the snapshot or create a new one.

Snapshots are view-only. Visitors can browse the screen and select fighters just as you can, but nothing they do changes your roster, and they do not need an account to open the link.

Creating one

1. Open the roster in the theme you want people to see.
2. Use the share option on the roster screen and give the snapshot a name. The name becomes the title in link previews, so make it descriptive: "Smash 6 dream roster" beats "My roster".
3. Add up to five tags. Tags are how people filter the marketplace, so use the game, the franchise and the concept.
4. Decide whether to list it in the marketplace, then confirm and copy the link.

When the link is pasted into Discord, X, Reddit or a messaging app, it unfurls with the snapshot name, the fighter count and a preview image, so people can see what it is before they click.

How many you can have

The free plan holds two snapshots at a time and premium holds ten. The limit counts live snapshots, not snapshots ever made, so deleting an old one from the Snapshots page frees the slot immediately. The same page is where you rename a snapshot, edit its tags and change whether it is listed.

How long a link lasts

A snapshot expires 90 days after it is created. That is deliberate: it keeps storage for abandoned experiments from growing forever.

Listed snapshots can earn more time. Each view or vote from someone else extends the expiry by 30 days, up to a maximum of 180 days ahead. In practice a roster that people keep opening does not expire, while one nobody has looked at in months quietly does. Your own views do not count toward this, and they do not inflate the view counter either.

If a roster matters to you, do not rely on the snapshot as your only copy. The pack in your Dashboard is the permanent version, and you can create a fresh snapshot from it at any time.

Listed or unlisted?

Every snapshot is reachable by its link. Listing controls only whether it also appears in the public marketplace.

• Unlisted suits rosters meant for one group: a Discord server, a tournament, a video you have not published yet.
• Listed suits anything you want strangers to find. Listing is available on every plan, including free.

You can switch between the two whenever you like without changing the link.

How the marketplace works

The marketplace is the public gallery of listed rosters. Visitors can sort it three ways: Trending, which orders by views; New, which shows the most recent first; and Top, which orders by upvotes. They can also filter by theme or by tag.

Anyone can browse. Voting requires an account, each account gets one vote per roster that can be changed or withdrawn, and you cannot vote on your own snapshot.

A few things consistently help a listed roster do well:

• A specific name. People click "MK vs DC 2 full roster" and scroll past "roster 3".
• Accurate tags. Use the names people actually search for.
• A complete grid. Empty slots and placeholder art read as unfinished.
• A concept. The rosters that get shared are the ones making a claim somebody wants to dispute.

The "Make your own version" button

Shared rosters include a button inviting viewers to make their own version. It takes them to sign-up and into the builder so they can answer your roster with theirs. It does not copy your fighters or art into their account.

The watermark

Snapshots from free accounts carry a small "Made with FighterRoster" credit on the shared view. Premium subscribers choose per snapshot whether to show it. It does not cover the fighters or the grid, and it does not appear while you are building.

Viewing on a phone

Most links get opened on phones. Game themes switch to their portrait layout automatically, and the Custom theme adapts to the screen. A few Custom layouts are landscape designs, and for those the viewer is asked to rotate the phone. If your audience is mostly mobile, open your own link on a phone before posting it.