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Notes from the chat trenches.

Install guides, alternatives roundups, moderation playbooks. Written by the team that runs the platform.

Tutorial · Featured

Getting started with Embedded Chat — full tutorial

Sign up → install → theme → moderate → automate. The complete walkthrough from zero to a live, themed, auto-welcoming community chat on your site.

15 min read · Step-by-step
Monetization · New

How to add a tip jar to your website

Let visitors tip you without sending them to Patreon. The Stripe setup, the real fee numbers, and how to price the amounts so people actually give.

8 min read
Install guide

How to add live chat to a Shopify store in 30 seconds

The fastest path from "I want chat on my store" to "my visitors are chatting". App Store install, App Embed toggle, done.

5 min read
Playbook

How to moderate a community chat without burning out

The right knobs in the right order. Slow mode, banned words, mute, AI moderation — what to set, when, and what to never turn on.

9 min read
Examples

Welcome bot scripts that don't feel like ads

Auto-greetings done right. Real examples from storefronts, radio shows, and SaaS that warm visitors without sounding spammy.

6 min read
Explainer

AI chat moderation: how it works and when to use it

What the classifier actually catches, what it misses, when banned-words is enough, and how to layer them.

7 min read
Explainer

Live chat vs embedded chat — what's the difference?

Two terms used interchangeably, two different products. Definitions, use cases, and how to pick correctly.

6 min read
Comparison

The best Tawk.to alternatives in 2026

When Tawk.to's customer-support framing doesn't fit — what to consider, who else is in the market, and how to pick.

8 min read
Playbook

The live-streaming chat playbook

Lessons from running a 50,000-message-a-month radio chat. What works, what breaks, and the tooling that saves the show.

10 min read
For chatters

How to use Embedded Chat — visitor guide

React, reply, @-mention, paste a screenshot, edit, mute. Every button explained for first-time chatters.

3 min read
Guide

How to add a chat to your online radio station

Turn listeners into regulars: a persistent room, requests in the chat, mobile-first, moderation and tips for live shows.

7 min read
Guide

How to put a Twitch-style chat on your own website

The energy of Twitch chat — emotes, reactions, regulars — next to your player, on your domain, with the audience yours.

6 min read
Guide

Adding live chat to a virtual event or webinar page

Q&A, polls, moderating the arrival surge, beating the cold start, and replay after the event ends.

6 min read
Roundup

The best Cbox alternatives in 2026

An honest roundup of modern embeddable chat / shoutbox tools — what each is best for, and where they fall short.

8 min read
Tutorial

How to add a chat room to your website (step by step)

Sign up, copy the embed code, paste it, configure one room or one per page. WordPress, Wix, Shopify, Squarespace or plain HTML.

5 min read
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