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      Your profile

      PNG, JPG, GIF or WebP, up to 8 MB. GIFs move!
      Your homepage
      Your card How your profile looks to everyone: its colours, a pattern, your name's font, and weather
      Your birthday (if you'd like it celebrated: the day, never the year)

      Change password
      Change your email
      People you've blocked
        Your files

          A record of your calls

          To save a record of your calls with a friend (when, how long, who rang, and your messages if you like), as a page to keep, print or save as a PDF, open their menu (right-click them in your friends, or press and hold) and choose Save a record of your calls. It has the calls from your conversation with them either way, and the rest from your own record if you keep one.

          Download your data

          A .zip of what's yours here: your profile, every message you've sent (your notes too), your friends and spaces, your homepage with its pictures, your pet, and a list of your files (save those from Your files, above). Each conversation has its own folder in it, with both sides of it and your calls with that person. Elsewhere, what other people sent isn't in it: that's theirs.

          Delete your account

          This deletes your account for good. Everything you've sent goes with it (messages, files and reactions, everywhere), and so do your conversations with friends, for them too, your friends, and your profile. Groups you're in carry on without you. (To keep a copy, download your data first.)

          Your card

          Colours

          Top
          Bottom

          Along the top

          Your name

          Weather

          A space for your people

          or

          or

          Paste a server template link (in Discord: Server Settings › Server Template). Its channels, roles and permissions come over; messages and members don't.

          Invite people

          Anyone with an account on this Rainlit can join with this link.

          Members

            Space settings

            Everyone sees it instead of the initials. PNG, JPG, GIF or WebP, up to 8 MB.

            An announcement

            What's new in Rainlit

            Asked once. You can change it in Settings.

            This voice channel is marked 18+

            You're only asked once: Rainlit remembers it for your account.

            Report

            Your camera

            Events

              Plan an event

              Who's free

              Your free times

              The hours you're usually free, week to week. People in your spaces see them when they plan events, to pick a time most of you can make. Drag across the hours to mark them, or to unmark them.

              Add a sound

              Your calls

              Leave them empty for all of it.

              Invite someone to Rainlit

                You're invited

                Connect to a Rainlit server

                Anyone can run their own Rainlit. Whoever runs yours can tell you its address.

                Invites and accounts

                Reports

                Everything reported on this server. Reports from a space also go to its moderators, except ones about a child or intimate pictures, which only you see.

                  Kept as evidence

                  Sexual content involving a child that you've confirmed from a report, with the account that sent it: kept for a year on the server, in the data folder's evidence folder (the app never shows it), for the authorities. US law says to report each one to NCMEC's CyberTipline (as a provider: register first), then note its report number here.

                    Feedback

                    Bugs, ideas and anything else people sent from Settings, the newest first. A reply shows under what they sent, in their Settings.

                    Flagged accounts

                    Accounts that look like they're filling up the free tier (bots, mostly), with what was noticed. Until you say it's fine, a flagged account can send up to 250 MB of files a day, like a new one. Nobody's suspended unless you do it.

                      Announcements

                      Tell everyone something. It shows once to each person, the next time they open Rainlit (right away if it's open). For a big change to the terms or privacy policy, send it at least 3 days before the change starts: they both promise that.

                        Sign-ups

                        Storage

                        Everything someone's sent counts (their notes too) until they delete it: it's not per month. Next to someone's account below, you can give them more room, or less.

                        The support page shows it, with how much supporters cover after fees, so everyone can see how it's doing (0 hides that). Next to someone's account below, you can gift them some months of Glow.

                        Homepages

                        What people put on their pages, everyone's together: how many pages have each piece, and in which styles. Counts only: nobody's page is shown.

                        Invite codes

                        Each code lets one person sign up. Send it to them along with this site's address.

                          Accounts

                          If someone forgets their password, make them a reset link. It works once, for 24 hours.

                            Call debug logs

                            From people who turned on Settings > Call debug log: what happened to their calls' connections, from both of their devices and this server, as one timeline. Kept for a week.

                              Settings

                              Theme

                              Everyone's

                              Look

                              Messages and sounds

                              Feedback

                              Found a bug, or have an idea? Send it straight to whoever runs this Rainlit server.

                              Events

                              When you're usually free, so people in your spaces can plan events for when most of you can come.

                              Voice and video

                              Built into the browser. Only turn echo cancellation off if you wear headphones, or your friend will hear themselves.
                              Mic test

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                              Your pet

                              Pick a pet, and it moves in here.

                              0 dew

                              Upgrades

                              Collect it with

                              These collect it from here: none of them go in its room. Spend it in Decorate, on things for its room that only dew brings (just for looks).

                              Drops

                              Now and then one rolls down its room's window: catch it before it's gone. The rarer it is, the bigger and brighter, and the more it brings.

                              Milestones

                              Pick a pet

                              Its colours

                              Rainlit Glow

                              Keep Rainlit free for everyone, and get more of it.

                              Themes with weather of their own

                              A theme for every season, all over Rainlit: cherry blossoms at night, the monsoon rains, fireflies in the woods, autumn leaves, snow under the northern lights, and stars falling into a black hole.

                              Pets with a little magic

                              Everyone can have a pixel pet (a cat, a dog or a fish) to look after, with a room to do up, and living on their homepage too. Glow brings three more: a droplet (Rainlit's own little drop) that sends out ripples when it's petted, a dragon that puffs flames, and a spirit fox with a glowing tail. And things for their rooms that glow: fairy lights, neon signs, an arcade machine, an aquarium, a lava lamp, a city at night, a thunderstorm or the northern lights out the window, and more.

                              Homepage extras

                              Backgrounds that move, sparkles, hearts or pixels behind your visitors' pointers and confetti or fireworks when they click (try it here), a fortune ball, Shimmer and Lamplight words, Gilded and Neon frames, and fireflies, an aurora, a thunderstorm, cherry blossoms or embers for your page's weather (and the moving backgrounds and weather for your profile card too), with room for 200 MB and 500 pieces.

                              500 MB

                              Bigger files

                              Everyone: 50 MB

                              50 GB

                              Room for your files

                              Everyone: 1.5 GB

                              1080p60

                              Sharper streams

                              Screen sharing in voice channels, up to 60 fps.

                              1,000

                              Notes

                              Everyone: 100

                              A badge that grows

                              A raindrop on your profile that gathers light the longer you have Glow, from Drizzle to Lamplight. If you stop, it keeps its level.

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