Lost your admin link
Updated 2026-09-02
If the survey was never attached to an account, there's no way to recover its admin link. The admin link is the only credential that shows a survey's results, rifts.to stores no other way to reach it, and there's no "forgot my link" flow that can look it up for you. Nothing below changes that, and none of it will turn up a shortcut the app doesn't have.
Why it can't be looked up
A survey created without signing in has no owner on file anywhere. The admin link itself is the only thing that proves you're the person who should see its results, the same way a physical key proves you should be let into a room. Nobody at rifts.to can hand you a copy of a key we were never given, and that includes support: there is nothing on file to send you.
Places worth checking before giving up
- Your browser history, searching for "rifts.to/admin". If you opened the link even once, it's probably there.
- The tab or window you created the survey in, if it's still open. Admin links don't expire on their own.
- The confirmation screen you saw right after publishing, shown above, if you kept it open in another tab. It shows the same admin link again.
- Anywhere you might have pasted or noted it: a message to yourself, a notes app, a slide deck if you were about to present the poll.
If none of those turn up anything, the survey's answers aren't gone, but nobody, us included, can reach them without that link. The survey link you shared with respondents doesn't help here either: it opens the questions people answered, not the results, and it carries no admin authority at all.
Making sure this doesn't happen again
Sign in before you create a survey, or claim it right after, and its admin link stops depending on a tab staying open. Once a survey is attached to an account, the link is listed on your account page and stays findable there even if you close every window and clear your browser history. That's the entire reason accounts exist in an otherwise account-free product: not to gate anything, but to give the one credential you actually need a permanent home. See claiming a survey for how to attach one you already have the link for, and signing in with a code if you haven't signed in before.