New here? This walkthrough gets you from a blank profile to hanging out in chat in about five minutes. Work through it top to bottom, or jump to whatever you're stuck on.

1️⃣ Finish your profile

• Add a photo and a few words about you. Head to Edit Profile to set your avatar, banner, status, and the "about me" blurb. This is the first thing people see.
• Pick a theme. Themes restyle your whole profile in a click. Browse the built-in ones in Edit Profile - or, if you're a Donor, design your own in the Theme Builder.
• Arrange your layout. Use the live drag-and-drop layout builder at the top of your own profile to move cards around - single column, sidebar, multi-column, masonry, or a header-banner look. Show or hide any card, and add your own custom cards too.

2️⃣ Find your people

• Browse members on the Browse page and send friend requests. When someone accepts, they show up on your Top Friends.
• Sign a guestbook on a profile you like, leave a comment, or fire off a private message to say hi.
• Post a bulletin from the Bulletins page - it's a quick broadcast to everyone, great for a first hello.

3️⃣ Jump into chat & cam rooms

• Open the Chat Rooms list and click one to join. Text chat works for everyone; rooms with cams let you go on video too.
• Set a chat nickname so a friendlier name shows next to your messages while your username stays in the userlist.
• Go on cam: click Cam Up and allow camera + microphone access when your browser asks. Only one app can use your camera at a time, so close Zoom/Teams/OBS first.
• On your phone? The cam room is built "cams-first" - the video grid fills the screen, and the chat box slides up when you tap the message strip or the keyboard button.

4️⃣ Make it yours

• Create your own room. Anyone can host. Go to Create a Room and pick a name, a layout, a size, and whether it's public, password-protected, hidden, or request-to-join. Once you've made one, the Room Admin Guide unlocks for you with everything about running it.
• Build a Page. Under My Pages you can spin up extra profile pages (band, business, fan page - whatever) that live under your account.
• Leave a time capsule on the Capsules page - a message that unlocks on a future date.

5️⃣ Play, listen, and keep your streak

• Puzzles & word games. Open Puzzles from the Games menu for a daily Word Guess (six tries, build a streak), Sudoku in four difficulties, a timed Word Search, and a 90-second Anagram sprint. Every game keeps your best scores and feeds the leaderboards.
• Poker. If the Poker Room is open, pull up a seat for multiplayer Texas Hold'em. It's play money only - you get free chips, with a daily top-up if you bust out - so it's all for fun. No one else around? Hit Add bot to fill the table with AI players and deal right away.
• Board games with friends. Challenge someone to Connect Four, Checkers, Chess, Battleship and more from the Arcade, or right from a player's name inside a room.
• Give your profile a soundtrack. Under My Music, paste YouTube links to build a playlist and choose autoplay, shuffle, repeat, and whether it starts open or collapsed. Visitors get a little player on your profile.
• Show up daily. Logging in each day grows your streak and pays out tokens. Hit the named milestones - Week Warrior, Fortnight, Monthly Regular, and beyond - for escalating bonus rewards. Your next milestone shows on the streak badge so you always know what you're chasing.

🆘 If something breaks

Most chat/cam trouble comes down to browser permissions, extensions, or your network - not the site. The FAQ & Connection Help page walks through the fixes: granting camera/mic access, ad-blockers, hardware acceleration, cookies, and more. Start there.

🏪 Marketplace

Buy and sell with other members. Open the Marketplace from the top menu.

• Posting: click Post a Listing, pick Fixed price or Auction, add a title, category, photos (up to 8) and a description. It's free.
• Auctions: set a starting bid, increment and how long it runs. Bidders see the live high bid and full history; a late bid auto-extends the clock so nobody gets sniped. Add an optional Buy-It-Now price to let someone end it early.
• Make an Offer: turn it on for a fixed listing and buyers can propose a price. You can accept, decline, or counter from your Offers page.
• Buying / contact: open a listing and use Contact seller to message them, or Pay with PayPal if the seller added theirs - payment goes straight to the seller.
• Watchlist: tap Watch on any listing to save it to your Watching page.
• Saved searches: save a keyword or category and get a notification the moment a matching listing is posted.
• Ratings: leave a seller a star rating and note after a deal. Every member has a public store page showing their listings and rating.
• Sharing: every listing has a Copy link button and a Share to chat picker that drops the item into a cam room's chat.
• Featured bumps: float your listing to the top for 7 days ($2.00 via PayPal).

📊 PulsePoll

Head to Polls to weigh in on what the community is debating. Vote in one tap and the results reveal instantly, then jump into the thread to make your case. Got a hot take? Hit New Poll, drop your question and two to six answers, and watch the split roll in.