New here? This walkthrough gets you from a blank profile to a fully set-up account 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 Make it yours

• Build a Page. Under My Pages you can spin up extra profile pages (band, business, fan page - whatever) that live under your account - or a link page: every link you have as big buttons on one page of its own, the link to put in your Instagram or TikTok bio, with views and clicks counted for you.
• 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.
• Card Room. If the Card 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.
• Solo games with progress that sticks. The Game Center holds the big single-player games - run a crime empire, a farm, a grow room, a garage, a food truck, a pirate crew and more. Each one keeps a goal chain, a daily streak, collectible sets and achievements, and every one is unlimited play.
• 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.

🎥 In a cam room

• Every button explained. Room owners can open the Room Guide for a clickable map of the tools along the bottom of every room.
• Effects, tuned your way. Open 🎭 Effects for filters, background blur, animated borders and weather overlays. Overlays have their own brightness, contrast, colour, vividness and opacity, so snow can be blue and fire can be green. The cover colour has a strength slider - below 100% your camera shows through it. Everyone in the room sees what you set.
• Master volume. 🔊 Volume sets how loud everyone else sounds to you, all at once. Each person still has their own slider on their tile.
• Captions. 💬 CC turns your speech into captions for the room. The ▾ beside it sets how captions look to you, and turns on subtitles for videos in the Media Center.
• Slower device? It adjusts itself. On older phones, tablets and low-memory computers - or if you have asked your device for reduced motion - animations switch off automatically so cams stay smooth. You can turn them back on.

These are the buttons along the bottom of every cam room. Click any of them to see what it does, how to use it, and who sees the result. Nothing here turns on your camera or sends anything - it is just a map.