Alongside Private Data, Badges, and other Wix Members collections, Public Data is now available for access and query using Velo (Wix Data API) or the Content Manager.
Public Data is the member’s public profile display information, and until now they were only accessible per member. The new Public Data collection includes all of a site’s public member data.
Until recently, when I created a new site member from the Dashboard, their data was appearing in the PublicData collection automatically. All PublicData has recently disappeared whilst the members are still visible in the PrivateMembersData collection.
I created a new site just to test whether the behaviour the same and it appears that, when a member is created, the are no longer appearing in the PublicData collection.