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Chat
Talking with other keepers across the reef, in the room you're in, or in private.
Where you can talk
Chat lives in the bottom-left of the screen, inside the aquarium. It's one window with a few channels to switch between:
- General: one room shared by every keeper, with Trade beside it for buying, selling and swapping.
- Room: the aquarium you're looking at, yours or a friend's, or the Open Water place you're swimming in.
- Whisper: a private conversation between two keepers who follow each other. It opens at level 10. In Settings › Account you can also let any keeper of that level or above whisper to you, even if you don't follow each other. Choose Whisper to… in the channel menu to pick who from the keeper chooser, mutual friends first.
- A small blue dot before a keeper's name means they're out swimming in Open Water right now.
- Tap any name, your own included, to open that keeper's card.
- A Room message also rises as a speech bubble over the aquarium: above the speaker's fish if they have joined as one, otherwise at the front glass with their name.
- The gear in the chat bar holds its settings: which channels you see, who else is here, and keeping the chat open instead of letting messages fade.
- A keeper's card holds the same actions as everywhere else: Invite out to call them to where you are, Whisper, Visit, Gift, Follow and more.
Posting
A message can be up to 240 characters long. Signed-out visitors can read the latest messages but need an account to post.
Sent something by mistake? You have 3 seconds to take it back.
Chat tips: type # and a name (#lumi, #coral-clown) to link a fish, decoration, food or guide. Everyone sees it as a small picture with its name in their own language, and tapping it opens that page in the Reef Journal. Type @ and a keeper's name to mention them: tapping the name opens their card. On your Stall, Share in Trade writes your stall into the Trade channel as a chip (#stall:yourname) that opens it for anyone who taps it.
A keeper in a school wears it beside their name in chat, on name cards and on leaderboards: its tag, its symbol or both, as its Founder chose. Anyone can keep their school off their own name in the School app.
Keeping it friendly
Chat is moderated by a real person. Harassment, hate, threats, spam and advertising get messages removed and can get an account banned, and a ban follows the account you signed in with, not your username.
You can block anyone you don't want to hear from. It works both ways, straight away.
How long messages last
Messages in an aquarium's room or an Open Water place are kept for 1 day. Whispers are kept for 1 week.
In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/chat · Fishies 0.8.24
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