Sending messages

Writing

Click the message box, type, and press Enter. Shift+Enter starts a new line inside your message. On a phone the box behaves like your messages app: capitals at the start of a sentence, autocorrect and word suggestions. The round arrow sends.

Talking to someone in particular

Start with their nickname and a colon: Sam: are you there?. Press Tab after the first letters of a nickname to complete it. The person sees the line as a highlight.

Actions

/me waves shows as "Sam waves", in the third person.

Emoji

• Suggestions: as you type a word that has an emoji, such as "pizza", "coffee", "cat", "party" or "thanks", a few emoji appear above the box. Tap one to swap it for the word.
• The emoji picker: the smiley button opens a picker with eight groups (smileys, people, animals, food, activities, travel, objects, symbols) and a Recent tab with the emoji you used last. On a computer there is a search box: type "raccoon" or "pizza" and the emoji appears. It works the same in every browser, so Windows has as many emoji to choose from as a Mac or an iPhone.
• Names: type a name between colons, such as :smile:, :thumbsup: or :raccoon:, and it becomes the emoji when you send; any emoji in the picker can be typed this way (:thumbs_up:, :red_apple: ...). Names that are not known stay as you typed them.
• Your keyboard: on a phone the keyboard's own emoji suggestions and the emoji key work as usual.
• The emoji panel (phones): the smiley button opens a panel where the keyboard would be. It stays open while you send, so a run of emoji messages is quick. ABC brings the keyboard back, the delete key removes the last emoji.

Commands

Anything that starts with / is a command rather than a message. To send a message that really starts with a slash, type two slashes: //etc is sent as /etc. All commands are listed in Commands: overview.

While you type /, the box suggests commands. Tab completes them.

Going back

Press Up in an empty box to bring back your earlier messages.

Messages that are blocked

The network can filter language in rooms that have the language filter on. See Language filter.

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