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Chat

Chat is where traders talk about what they see on the chart: a shared room, rooms in your language, clans and private messages. Anyone can read the public rooms. To post, sign in with your Himbit ID.

Where to find it

  • Desktop: Panels › Community › Chat opens it next to the chart, and the ● Chat button in the status bar shows or hides it, with your unread count. Pop it out into a floating window you can drag, resize and minimise, or dock it back.
  • Phone: the Chat tab in the bottom bar, between Home and Chart. A badge shows unread messages.

The first time you open Chat, a short guide walks you through it. A message you started typing is kept if you switch away.

Chat as a floating window on desktop, with the ● Chat toggle in the status bar (example messages).
Chat as a floating window on desktop, with the ● Chat toggle in the status bar (example messages).
The short guide that opens the first time you use Chat.
The short guide that opens the first time you use Chat.

Rooms

Global is the room everyone shares. The pills at the top filter it: All, Crypto, Stocks, Forex, Futures and Macro. Next to them you can switch to a room in your language. A room can have slow mode, for example one message every 10 seconds; the room shows it when it is on. Messages are grouped under date dividers, newest at the bottom.

The Global room with the message menu open: Reply, Send message, Copy username, Block, Report (example messages).
The Global room with the message menu open: Reply, Send message, Copy username, Block, Report (example messages).

Write a message

  • Type $ and a ticker, for example $BTC, to tag a market. The tag shows as a chip; tap it to open that chart.
  • Type @ to mention someone. Market Open suggests people who posted recently.
  • Reply to a message to quote it above yours.
  • ✦ opens Text effects for your next message: 10 colours (Yellow, Red, Green, Cyan, Purple, White, Flash 1, Flash 2, Glow 1, Glow 2) and 5 motions (Wave, Wave 2, Shake, Scroll, Slide).
  • A message can be up to 300 characters. Links show as [link] instead of the address.
Replying to a message: the quoted message sits above the box (example messages).
Replying to a message: the quoted message sits above the box (example messages).
Text effects: 10 colours and 5 motions for your next message.
Text effects: 10 colours and 5 motions for your next message.

Share a chart or a picture

Tap 📎 to share a snapshot of the chart you are looking at, with an optional line of text. It posts as a card with the symbol and timeframe, and anyone who taps Open chart gets the same symbol and timeframe on their own screen.

You can also attach or paste a picture. Pictures are resized before they are sent, and you can send up to 4 a minute and 40 a day.

Private messages

The Private tab holds your one-to-one conversations. Each one shows whether the other person is online and when they are typing, and a dot marks unread messages. Only the two of you can read a private conversation.

A private conversation. Only the two people in it can read it (example messages).
A private conversation. Only the two people in it can read it (example messages).

Clans

A clan is a group with its own room. Under Clan you can create one (the name is 3–20 characters: letters, numbers, spaces, _ or -) or accept an invite. Members invite others by @username. Ranks are Owner, Officer and Member, the clan can pin a notice at the top of its room, and Members lists everyone. You can leave a clan at any time.

A clan room with ranks, the pinned notice and the Members button (example clan).
A clan room with ranks, the pinned notice and the Members button (example clan).
The Clan tab before you join one: an invite to accept or decline, and Create clan.
The Clan tab before you join one: an invite to accept or decline, and Create clan.

People

Right-click a name, or use the ⋯ menu on a message, to Reply, Send message, Add friend, Block, Report or Copy username. Everyone you block is listed in Chat settings.

Chat settings

The gear in the Chat header opens Chat settings: Text size (Small, Medium, Large) and your Blocked users.

Chat settings: text size and blocked users.
Chat settings: text size and blocked users.

Keep it safe

Use Report on anything that breaks the rules; moderators review reports. Never post your seed phrase, private key, API secret or backup password, and don't trust anyone in chat, including in private messages, who asks for them.