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Community
The keepers' forum at fishies.lol/community: questions, ideas, bug reports, guides and aquariums worth showing.
Ten categories
Every topic lives in one of ten categories. Pick the one that fits when you start a topic; staff can move it later if it belongs somewhere else.
Each category has its own page at fishies.lol/community/ followed by its name, for example /community/showcase, so you can bookmark or share it.
- Announcements: news from the Fishies team. Read-only.
- Updates & patch notes: one thread for every blog post and patch note, open for replies.
- General: anything about Fishies that fits nowhere else.
- Help: questions about how to play.
- Bugs: something is broken. The editor asks for your platform, what you expected and the steps.
- Ideas: features and changes you would like to see. Upvotes show the team what keepers want most.
- Showcase: your aquarium, with a live card of it attached for you.
- Guides: tips and walkthroughs written by keepers.
- Off-Topic: anything that isn't Fishies, such as other games, real aquariums, fishing and life.
- Indie Corner: developers share their own games here, with links so everyone can try them.
Updates and patch notes
Every blog post and every set of patch notes gets its own thread in Updates & patch notes, written by the Fishies team account. The thread links the post, and the post has a Discuss button that brings you back to the thread with its reply count.
Four threads stay pinned at the top of the board: Welcome and the house rules, Frequently asked questions, How to report a bug, and the Roadmap, which links the public roadmap on the project page.
Keeper profiles
Your Community profile has a fish avatar. Pick any fish you keep, or show your aquarium card instead. Add a short bio and a signature that appears under your posts. Open your keeper page and press Edit profile.
Tap a name or avatar to open a user card with the bio and badges, and a link to the keeper page.
Writing a post
Reading is open to everyone. To post, reply or upvote you need a Fishies account and a public username.
The editor writes Markdown and shows a live preview of exactly how the post will look. It keeps a draft on your device while you type.
- Bold, italic, headings, lists, quotes, code and spoilers come from the toolbar, or from Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I and Ctrl+K. Ctrl+Enter posts.
- Type @ and a name to mention a keeper; they get a notice.
- Quote puts the words you are answering into your reply.
- Add a poll to a topic with a question and options, and tag it with up to 5 tags so others can find it. Upvote a post you like.
Pictures, videos and links
Attach a photo to a post. It is checked automatically before anyone sees it.
Videos are held until the team approves them, so they show up a little later.
Paste a link to Steam, YouTube, Twitch, Streamable or X and it turns into a card or player inside the post.
Finding your way around
- Bookmarks save a topic or reply for you. Only you see the list.
- Edit or delete your own posts. Edited posts show an Edit history that only you and staff can open.
- Tags group topics. Tap one to see every topic with it.
- New markers show what you have not read yet, and you can jump to the first unread reply.
- Search looks through titles, posts and replies, and can filter by category, tag or author.
- Report a post to the moderators if it breaks the rules.
Notifications
A reply to your topic or to your reply, a reply in a thread you follow, an @mention and an answer from staff all land in your notification centre.
Turn on Community replies in your reminder settings and a reply reaches your phone or computer while you are away; tapping it opens the thread at that reply.
Keeping it friendly
The board is moderated by a real person. Report a post that breaks the rules instead of replying to it. You can block a keeper, and the block covers the Community, chat and Open Water at once.
Posts that break the rules are removed, and posting here can be suspended apart from the game. When staff edit a post, the post says so.
In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/community · Fishies 0.8.9
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