Users

A user is a platform account with its own blog, profile, subscriptions and rating.

Overview

A user signs up with email or through a social network, publishes posts in their blog and in topics, and follows authors and topics. A user's page is their profile at /{slug}.

Reactions to a user's posts and comments add up to their rating, and the best authors of the month enter the top. Global roles and roles in topic teams grant rights beyond the regular ones.

Sign-up and sign-in

Signing up with email requires a name, an email and a password of at least 6 characters. If email verification is required, sign-in is possible only after following the link from the email. A password is reset via a link from an email; sending emails requires configured mail.

Social sign-in works for Google, Yandex, VK, Facebook, Apple and GitHub. The first sign-in creates an account with the verified email from the social network. If an account with this email already exists, the social network is linked to it in Settings → Basic. One Tap quick sign-in is available for Google and Yandex.

Closing sign-up, required email verification, social network keys and One Tap are set in Site Settings. Closed sign-up also blocks creating accounts through social networks. Callback addresses for social network apps are described in Service URLs.

In Settings → Basic, the user changes the email with confirmation at the new address and the password, links social networks and ends all sessions.

Profile

The /{slug} profile shows the user's posts and comments, followers and followings, rating and achievements. In the profile and in Settings → Blog, the user sets:

• Name: up to 30 characters; changed no more than once in 30 days
• Description: up to 160 characters
• Avatar: an image or a video; a video avatar is the video_avatar subscription feature
• Cover: an image with an adjustable position
• Badge: an icon next to the name; the badge subscription feature
• Profile address: changing the slug no more than once in 30 days, a period shared with changing the name; the fancy_nickname subscription feature

An administrator marks an account as an official page in Admin Panel → Users → Users; the mark is shown next to the name.

Blog statistics

The /{slug}/stats page shows statistics for the last 30 days: new followers, reactions to posts, post views and post impressions in feeds. Statistics are available to the blog owner and the super administrator; access to topic statistics is described in Team.

Following

Following a user or topic adds their posts to "My feed" and turns on notifications about new posts. Notifications are turned off separately from following.

The /my-topics page collects the user's followed authors and topics and the topics they created. There, the user unfollows all topics, all authors or everything at once.

Hiding content

A user hides:

• A user or topic: their posts are not shown in feeds; following and notifications about them are turned off
• A post: the post is not shown in feeds
• A keyword: posts with this word are not shown in feeds

A user hidden by an author cannot comment on posts in that author's blog.

Hidden users and keywords are edited in Settings → Feeds.

Private messages

Private messages are in the /m section. Messages and the unread counter update in real time.

Sending messages is the private_messages subscription feature. A user sends no more than 60 messages per minute.

Bookmarks

Posts and comments are bookmarked. Bookmarks are collected on the /bookmarks/posts and /bookmarks/comments pages, and posts the user reacted to are on the /bookmarks/reactions page.

Account deletion

An account is deleted in Settings → Basic not immediately: it is marked for deletion for 30 days. Until the period ends, the user can sign in and restore the account on the /account/restore page; the platform cannot be used without restoring. After the period, the account is deleted permanently.

Rating

A user's rating is the sum of the values of reactions to their posts and comments.

The top authors are ranked by the rating for the current month and shown in the "Top blogs" widget and on the /discovery/blogs page. Topics and users banned on the platform do not enter the top. In Admin Panel → Users → Top, recalculation is started manually and individual places are hidden. Places at the end of the month are used for achievements.

Roles

Global roles are assigned in Admin Panel → Users → Users:

• Editor: sets the editorial mark on posts they can edit; publishes posts in any topic
• Moderator: edits and unpublishes any posts, deletes any comments and threads
• Administrator: works in the granted sections of the admin panel
• Super administrator: all rights, including deleting any posts and managing administrators' access

Roles in topics are described in Topics.