ZapRooms
Join communities, post and comment, chat in rooms, and run a room of your own.
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Getting started 4
- Get started with ZapRooms What ZapRooms is, how to set up your ZapRooms profile, join your first rooms, and find your way around.
- Find and join rooms Discover rooms by topic, search ZapRooms, join from Popular, and use invite links.
- Your ZapRooms feeds How the Popular and Your Rooms feeds work, how to sort posts, and how to change the layout.
- Search ZapRooms Search all of ZapRooms, or search inside one room with filters like from:, has: and before:.
Posts & comments 5
- Create a post in a room Post text, links, images, videos, galleries, polls, events and AMAs, add flair, save drafts and schedule posts.
- Host an AMA (Ask Me Anything) Run an Ask Me Anything session in a room, with a start time, duration and host selfie.
- Comments and votes Upvote and downvote, comment and reply, sort comments, mark an answer, and get a Zappy summary of a discussion.
- Post options Save, share, award, follow, translate, hide, pin and report posts from the post options menu.
- Post to your profile Share posts on your own ZapRooms profile, outside any room, for your followers and visitors.
Channels, chat & voice 4
- Chat in room channels Send messages in a room's text channels, use threads, save messages, schedule and search, and understand slow mode.
- Direct messages in ZapRooms Message other ZapRooms members privately, and control who can message you and what waits in Requests.
- Voice channels Join a room's voice channel, talk, mute and deafen yourself, use push to talk, and turn on captions.
- Stage channels Listen to live talks and Q&As, raise your hand to speak, and host a stage if you're a moderator.
Profiles, boost & badges 3
- Your ZapRooms profile Edit your ZapRooms display name, picture, cover, pronouns, bio and status, and manage followers.
- Boost points, awards, badges and flair How boost points work, giving awards, the level and Pro badges, and wearing user flair in a room.
- ZapRooms with Zaplog Pro Longer messages, bigger files, 4K video posts and a gold badge in ZapRooms.
Notifications & settings 5
- ZapRooms notifications Your ZapRooms inbox, per-room notification levels, pausing, quiet hours and the weekly digest.
- ZapRooms settings Every section of ZapRooms settings, from appearance and voice to privacy, data export and reset.
- Mute words in ZapRooms Hide posts, comments and messages that use words or phrases you'd rather not see.
- Block someone in ZapRooms Stop someone messaging or following you in ZapRooms, and how this differs from blocking in Chats.
- Delete your ZapRooms account Remove your ZapRooms profile and memberships without deleting your Zaplog account.
Creating & managing rooms 6
- Create a room Start your own community in ZapRooms, choose its name, minimum age and privacy, and set it up.
- Age rules in ZapRooms Minimum ages for joining rooms, why creating a room is 18+, and why private rooms are adults only.
- Room settings Edit a room's name, icon, cover and description, and manage channels, categories, emoji, flair and rules.
- Room invite links Create, share and revoke invite links for your room, with an expiry and a limit on uses.
- Room members and roles Owner, admin, moderator and member roles, and how to promote, time out, kick, ban or hand over a room.
- Leave or delete a room Leave a room you joined, hand over a room you own, or delete it for good.
Moderating a room 8
- Moderate a room The moderation page, the inbox and queue, removing and restoring content, and the mod log.
- AutoMod and banned words Turn on AutoMod, add starter protections, filter words and links, and limit spam in your room.
- Moderation bots Build always-on bots that match content with conditions, then reply, warn, hold, remove or ban, with a dry run first.
- Bans, mutes, time-outs and the watchlist Ban or mute members, time them out, watch someone's posts, and catch ban evasion.
- Joining rules, raids and lockdown Review new members, ask join questions, require the rules, set a verification level, detect raids and lock a room down.
- Strikes and warnings Give members formal warnings and strikes, and set a strike ladder that acts on repeat offenders.
- Report posts, people and rooms in ZapRooms Report content to a room's moderators, or report a whole room or profile to Zaplog.
- Appeal a removal or restriction in ZapRooms Ask a room's moderators to restore content they removed, or contact Zaplog Trust & Safety about your account.
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