Things to try

◈Writing and conversation

Start with formatting. When you're writing a post or comment, there's a small toolbar above the text area — bold, italic, links, inline code. Nothing that gets in the way, but it's there when you want to make something specific stand out in a longer post.

If you have a question that genuinely needs a room's opinion, consider a poll. They sit right inside the post, close at a time you set, and the results are visible to everyone. Good for the "help me decide" situations that don't quite need a whole thread.

You can schedule posts to go out later. Useful once you notice how the feed moves — you can write something at midnight and have it land when people are actually around. Free accounts can queue up to three; Gold members get unlimited.

Cross-posting lets a single post appear in more than one community when it genuinely fits both. Two additional communities for free accounts, five for Gold. Worth knowing before you copy-paste.

◈Finding your people

Follow individual members whose posts you want to see more of. The "people" tab in your feed — top of the feed, next to the sort options — narrows everything to just the voices you've explicitly chosen. It becomes more useful the more deliberate you are about who you follow.

Hashtags on posts are searchable. If you notice a tag in the wild and want to see what else uses it, click it — there's a page for every tag listing everything tagged with it. The platform is young enough that some of these are still sparse, which is also an argument for tagging your own posts well.

The member directory is at /members. It lists everyone on the platform in roughly chronological order. Good for seeing who else is here, finding people from early on, or following up on a name you noticed in a thread somewhere.

Community follow buttons are on each community's header. Follow one and it anchors in your sidebar — the small ember dot means you're following it — and its posts surface in the "communities" filter in your feed.

◈Making it yours

Your profile lives at Settings → Profile. You can set a display name (separate from your username, which is what shows in the URL), write a short bio, and upload an avatar. Your username can be changed but isn't meant to be casual — it's what people know you by, so treat it accordingly.

There's a light and dark theme. The toggle is in settings. It persists.

Bookmarks are built in — the bookmark icon on any post saves it, accessible later from Settings → Bookmarks. If you find yourself searching for the same thing more than once, Gold members can save searches and replay them instantly, with filters for date range, community, or author. It's the kind of thing that quietly saves a lot of time.

Gold members also get a small badge on their name, which signals to the community that they're keeping this place independent and ad-free. No ads means no ads — removed entirely, not hidden behind a toggle. That's what Gold pays for.

◈Staying in the loop

Notification preferences are at Settings → Notifications. By default you'll hear about replies, mentions, and new followers. You can pare this down to exactly what you care about — no reason to get noise you didn't ask for.

If you prefer email to checking in, there's a weekly digest: the week's best conversations across the platform, curated by the community's own votes rather than an algorithm. You can also opt in per community — each one you follow has its own digest toggle, so you get exactly the communities you want without everything arriving in one pile.

Gold members get an RSS feed for their personalized content. The link lives on your own profile page once you're signed in. Plug it into any RSS reader and the feed comes to you.

◈The community side

Communities on Reacht aren't assigned from the top — members can start their own. There's an approval step while the platform is still small (helps keep things from fragmenting too fast), but if you have an idea for a community that doesn't exist yet, /communities/new is where to start.

Communities support events — scheduled gatherings with a time, a description, and an RSVP list. Members get notified, the event appears in the community sidebar, and you can see who's planning to show up.

When a mod sets it up, communities can also go into live chat mode during an event — a real-time thread instead of the standard feed format. It's opt-in and time-bounded, not the default.

◈Keeping it safe

The three-dot menu on any post or comment has a report option. Reports go to the community mod and, where needed, to site moderation. You don't have to explain the entire situation — a brief note about what's wrong is enough.

Everything that happens at the moderation level — removed posts, bans, warnings, appeals — is logged publicly at /modlog. You can read it without an account. The reasoning behind this is in The Code: if a decision is made in the community's name, you should be able to see it.

If something happened to your account and you think it was wrong, the appeals process is at /appeals. It goes to the same people, reviewed separately from the original decision.

If someone's sending you messages you don't want, you can ignore them from the conversation thread. They can still send — they just won't reach you. They're never told. Your inbox stays clean without escalating anything.