Emojis
Three ways to drop emoji in chat — use whichever your muscle memory likes.
Type :smile:, :fire:, :heart: — they convert to 😄 🔥 ❤️ on send.
Click + left of the input → Emoji. Search by name, click to insert.
Paste any emoji directly: 🦖 🎉 🌈 — emoji-only messages render larger, Slack-style.
:raid: emote, typing :raid: renders it inline. Ask the admin if a shortcode you expected doesn't show up.
Text formatting
A tiny Markdown subset — handy for highlighting a word or quoting someone.
Wrap text with **double asterisks** for bold, or *single* for italic.
Backticks around a snippet: `like this` renders as monospace. Good for URLs you don't want auto-linked.
Start a line with > + space to render it as a quote block. Useful for replying to something specific without breaking thread.
Mentions & replies
Type @ and start their name — autocomplete pops with everyone in the room. ↑ ↓ to pick, Tab or Enter to insert.
Mentioned users see a yellow ring on the bubble plus an unread badge in the bell.
Hover any message → click ↩ Reply. Your message threads under the parent and the original poster gets pinged.
Replies stay one level deep — a reply-of-a-reply still threads under the head.
Reactions
Pinned messages & polls
When an admin pins a message it sticks as a yellow banner at the top of the room — rules, an event link, an announcement. Click the banner to jump straight to the original message in the timeline.
Admins drop a poll as a message bubble with options. Click an option to vote — bars update live as everyone votes. You can change your vote by clicking a different option.
Editing & deleting your own messages
5-minute window — hover your own message → Edit or Delete. After 5 min the actions disappear (you can still ask an admin to remove it).
Edited messages keep an (edited) tag next to the time so the conversation stays honest.
Images & GIFs
Click + → Image or drag-and-drop one onto the chat. Limits: 15 MB, common formats (PNG / JPEG / GIF / WebP). Chat re-encodes and strips EXIF before posting.
Paste any link — chat auto-detects images and renders them inline. Other URLs become clickable links with the same anti-spam guards as regular text.
Send a tip to the creator
If the creator has connected Stripe, you'll see a $ Tip button in the header. Click it, pick a preset amount or set a custom one, optionally drop your name + a message, and pay via Stripe Checkout. Successful tips appear as a green callout in chat so the creator can thank you in real time.
Embedded Chat takes 5% (25¢ floor); the rest lands in the creator's Stripe account. We never see your card.
Notifications & sound
Header bell shows unread mentions and replies addressed to you. Click to jump straight to the message.
Click an avatar → Mute. You stop seeing their messages locally — they aren't notified.
Sun / moon toggle in the header. Per-device setting; nothing is saved server-side.
Avatar dropdown → Change wallpaper. Pick from presets or upload your own (per-device).