# 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](#account). ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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**. ## 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.