{ "generatedBy": "tools/docs-gen-wiki.ts", "pageCount": 54, "pages": [ { "slug": "ai", "title": "AI", "summary": "A conversation with an assistant that can act in Rivr on your behalf, one confirmed action at a time.", "surface": "Tools > AI", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I talk to the assistant?", "What can the assistant do for me?", "Can I use my voice?", "Does the assistant do things without asking me?", "Which model does it use?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "start-a-chat", "title": "Start a conversation", "steps": [ "Open AI under Tools.", "Write in the box at the bottom.", "Press the send control.", "Press the new thread control in the header to start a fresh conversation." ] }, { "key": "confirm-an-action", "title": "Confirm an action", "steps": [ "Ask the assistant to do something, such as write a post.", "Read the card it proposes. It names the action and lists every value it would use.", "Press Confirm to let it run, or Cancel to stop it.", "The card then says the action completed, or failed, or was cancelled." ] }, { "key": "use-your-voice", "title": "Talk instead of type", "steps": [ "Press the microphone in the header, or the one beside the writing box.", "A banner says it is listening. Speak.", "Press Cancel on the banner to stop.", "Press the speaker in the header to have replies read back to you." ] }, { "key": "change-the-model", "title": "Change the model", "steps": [ "Press the settings control in the header.", "Choose from the list under Model.", "Switch on voice replies if you want them read aloud." ] } ], "terms": [ "persona", "assistant" ], "related": [ "your-account-across-places", "flow-planning", "profile", "docs" ], "nav": [ "ai" ], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nAI is a conversation with an assistant that can do things in Rivr for you.\n\nIt never acts on its own. Every action it proposes is a card you either confirm or cancel.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe header names the chat. Beneath it sits the name of the model in use, or the word Processing while it is thinking.\n\nBefore you write anything, the page invites you to start a conversation, and explains that you can ask it anything or use it to create posts, manage your profile and work with Rivr through conversation.\n\nA box at the bottom invites you to write a message. You can write up to four thousand characters. A counter appears once you are close to that.\n\nAlong the header run five controls: a thread list, a new thread, a microphone, a speaker for reading replies aloud, and settings.\n\nThe thread list is headed Conversations with a count, and carries a New button.\n\nSettings holds the model choice, a note about the credential the chat runs on, and a switch for voice replies.\n\nWhen the assistant proposes an action, it appears as a card naming the action and listing what it would do. The card carries a Confirm button and a Cancel button, and afterwards says whether the action completed, failed or was cancelled.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Ask it something. See Start a conversation.\n- Let it act for you. See Confirm an action.\n- Speak instead of typing. See Talk instead of type.\n- Choose which model answers. See Change the model.\n\n## How to\n\n### Start a conversation\n\n1. Open AI under Tools.\n2. Write in the box at the bottom.\n3. Press the send control.\n4. Press the new thread control in the header to start a fresh conversation.\n\n### Confirm an action\n\n1. Ask the assistant to do something, such as write a post.\n2. Read the card it proposes. It names the action and lists every value it would use.\n3. Press Confirm to let it run, or Cancel to stop it.\n4. The card then says the action completed, or failed, or was cancelled.\n\nThe actions it can propose are: creating a post, creating a live invitation, updating your profile, reading your profile, joining or leaving a group, answering an event invitation, adding to a transcript, sending Thanks, listing your personas, reading the instance context, and reading your recent activity log.\n\n### Talk instead of type\n\n1. Press the microphone in the header, or the one beside the writing box.\n2. A banner says it is listening. Speak.\n3. Press Cancel on the banner to stop.\n4. Press the speaker in the header to have replies read back to you.\n\nIf your browser has blocked the microphone, a banner says so and offers to ask again.\n\n### Change the model\n\n1. Press the settings control in the header.\n2. Choose from the list under Model.\n3. Switch on voice replies if you want them read aloud.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach this page.\n\nThere is a second page that shows the assistant's own state. It has four tabs: Status, Personas, Activity and Chat. Status shows this instance's identity and whether its connections are configured. Activity is a log of every tool the assistant has run, filterable by who ran it.\n\nThe chat runs on the organization's own credential. Each saved conversation keeps its context across follow-up messages.\n\nThe conversation shown on screen holds the most recent forty messages.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Your account across places explains the identity the assistant acts as.\n- Flow Planning is the other way to make something happen automatically.\n- Profile is where your personas live." }, { "slug": "broadcast", "title": "Broadcast", "summary": "Four ways to send something out: post to the feed, publish press, send a newsletter, or email a whole membership.", "surface": "Manage > Broadcast", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I email my group's members?", "How do I send a newsletter?", "How do I post as my group?", "Why can I only post to the feed?", "Where is the press feed for my group?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "choose-who-you-send-as", "title": "Choose who you send as", "steps": [ "Open Broadcast under Manage.", "Read the card headed Broadcast as.", "Press Myself, or press the pill for the group you want.", "The channels below update to what that choice allows." ] }, { "key": "post-to-the-feed", "title": "Post to the feed", "steps": [ "Open Broadcast under Manage.", "Find the Compose a post panel.", "Choose who you are sending as.", "Write the post and publish it." ] }, { "key": "send-a-newsletter", "title": "Send a newsletter", "steps": [ "Open Broadcast under Manage.", "Press the pill for the group.", "Find the Newsletters panel.", "Compose the newsletter and send it." ] }, { "key": "send-an-email-blast", "title": "Send an email blast", "steps": [ "Open Broadcast under Manage.", "Press the pill for the group.", "Find the Email blast panel.", "Compose the email and send it." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "admin", "feed", "press" ], "related": [ "messages", "group-hub", "making-things", "canvas" ], "nav": [ "broadcast" ], "hubPages": [ "broadcast" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-18", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nBroadcast is for sending something to many people at once, rather than to one conversation.\n\nIt offers four channels and a link to a fifth surface.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Broadcast. Above it sits the word Manage, and a line asking what you want to send out today.\n\nA card headed Broadcast as stays above everything else. It shows a pill reading Myself, and one pill for each group you steward. Whichever you pick is who the rest of the page acts as. If you steward no groups, the card says the group channels are closed and that you can still post to the feed as yourself.\n\nBelow it the page is panels you can rearrange, not tabs.\n\nPlanner is the short version of the Feed Planner: what is going out next, what is overdue, and how many of your destinations are connected. It links through to the planner itself, which is where you schedule.\n\nCompose a post publishes to the feed, as whoever the card above names.\n\nNewsletters composes and sends an email newsletter to a group's members, and lists the drafts you have not sent and what you have already sent, with how many people it reached.\n\nPress holds the articles and media pulled in from the group's outside accounts, and the press kit.\n\nEmail blast sends a one-off email to every member of the group.\n\nDown the side, Recent designs shows the last few designs you saved in the canvas, each with a control reading Post it.\n\nThe last four appear only when you steward a group. If you steward none they are not there at all, rather than sitting empty.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Set whether you are sending as yourself or as a group. See Choose who you send as.\n- Publish to the feed. See Post to the feed.\n- Write to your members' inboxes. See Send a newsletter.\n- Send a one-off email to everybody. See Send an email blast.\n\n## How to\n\n### Choose who you send as\n\n1. Open Broadcast under Manage.\n2. Read the card headed Broadcast as.\n3. Press Myself, or press the pill for the group you want.\n4. The channels below update to what that choice allows.\n\n### Post to the feed\n\n1. Open Broadcast under Manage.\n2. Find the Compose a post panel.\n3. Choose who you are sending as.\n4. Write the post and publish it.\n\nPosting is always open, with or without a group, because a post can go out as you.\n\n### Send a newsletter\n\n1. Open Broadcast under Manage.\n2. Press the pill for the group.\n3. Find the Newsletters panel.\n4. Compose the newsletter and send it.\n\n### Send an email blast\n\n1. Open Broadcast under Manage.\n2. Press the pill for the group.\n3. Find the Email blast panel.\n4. Compose the email and send it.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nThe only groups offered are the ones you created or administer.\n\nPress, Newsletters and Email blast all need a group chosen. Until you choose one, the composer is replaced by a line telling you to choose a group to broadcast from.\n\nNewsletters and Email blast also need you to be an admin of that group. Without that, the composer is replaced by a line saying only group admins can send to the whole membership.\n\nThe Press panel shows the group's documents filed under press, news or media, and says so when a group has none.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Messages is for a conversation rather than a send-out.\n- A group's page carries the press section the press channel fills.\n- Canvas is the design composer the Recent designs panel draws from." }, { "slug": "broadcast-planner", "title": "Feed Planner", "summary": "Your feed as it will look once everything has gone out, beside the calendar it goes out on.", "surface": "Manage > Feed Planner", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I see what my feed will look like before I post?", "How do I schedule a post?", "Why can I not choose Instagram?", "Where do I get the key for a destination?", "What happens when a key expires?", "What happens if a post fails to go out?", "How do I change the order my posts go out in?", "Can I write a different version for each place it goes?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "plan-a-post", "title": "Plan a post", "steps": [ "Open Feed Planner under Manage.", "Choose Myself or the group you are planning for in the Planning as row.", "Write a title and a body in Compose.", "Choose a picture from your gallery, or open the canvas and make one.", "Tick each place you want it to go.", "Press Save draft." ] }, { "key": "give-a-post-its-time", "title": "Give a post its time", "steps": [ "Open Feed Planner under Manage.", "Write the post, or open one you saved.", "Tick at least one place for it to go.", "Set the date and time in the field reading Goes out.", "Press Schedule." ] }, { "key": "change-the-order", "title": "Change the order", "steps": [ "Open Feed Planner under Manage.", "Drag a square onto the square whose place you want it to take.", "Read the line under the grid, which says how many posts changed time.", "Press Put back if you want the old order returned." ] }, { "key": "move-a-post-to-another-day", "title": "Move a post to another day", "steps": [ "Open Feed Planner under Manage.", "Find the post in the Calendar.", "Drag its dot onto the day you want." ] }, { "key": "withdraw-a-post", "title": "Withdraw a post", "steps": [ "Open Feed Planner under Manage.", "Find the post under Due next or in the Calendar.", "Withdraw it." ] }, { "key": "connect-a-destination", "title": "Connect a destination", "steps": [ "Open Feed Planner under Manage.", "Read the panel headed Where you can post.", "Find the destination and read what it needs.", "Press the link to Settings and paste the key there.", "Come back. The destination now reads Ready and names the account it posts as." ] } ], "terms": [ "feed", "group", "admin", "connection", "hub page", "panel" ], "related": [ "broadcast", "calendar", "canvas", "connected-services", "messages" ], "nav": [ "broadcast-planner" ], "hubPages": [ "broadcast-planner" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nThe Feed Planner is a picture of your feed as it will look once everything you have planned has gone out.\n\nIt holds three things that answer to one list of posts. A grid of squares in the order they will be published. A calendar showing the days they land on. A place to write them.\n\nBecause the grid and the calendar read the same list, a change in one shows in the other.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Feed Planner. Above it sits the word Manage.\n\nUnder the title runs a row headed Planning as. It carries a pill reading Myself and one pill for each group you administer. The row ends with a count of how many places you can post to right now.\n\nThe Feed grid fills the main column. Squares run three across, newest first, the way a profile lays them out. A planned post takes its square before it exists. Below the planned squares sit the posts that are already out, with a line saying where that boundary falls, so the grid reads as one continuous picture.\n\nEach square is drawn through the crop the platform will actually use. A tall photograph shows you the band that survives, not the whole picture shrunk to fit. Under the grid sits one line explaining that the times stay where they are and the posts move between them.\n\nReels and stories sit under the grid in their own upright frames. They are there rather than in the grid because neither takes a square on a profile, so putting them in the grid would show a feed that will never exist.\n\nCompose sits under the grid. A title, one body, a picture chosen from your own gallery, a link out to the canvas, and a list of every place the post can go. Each place carries its own character count and its own box for a different version of the words. A place with no working key is listed separately with the reason, and it cannot be chosen. Choosing a message thread adds a menu of the conversations Rivr can reach.\n\nThe Calendar sits in the right column with three buttons reading Month, Week and Day. Scheduled posts sit on their days as coloured dots, and dragging one to another day moves it.\n\nDue next lists what goes out next, with anything late at the top. Each late or failed line says what to do about it, because a key that stopped working and a post a platform refused are fixed in two different places.\n\nWhere you can post lists every destination and what each one is. A destination reads Ready, or Needs a key, or Not linked, or No way in. A destination that needs a key says what to paste, whether getting it means registering your own application first, and that nothing will be sent there meanwhile. A key with a known expiry says the day it stops working.\n\nDrafts lists posts that have no time yet.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- See your feed as it will look before any of it is out. See Plan a post.\n- Schedule a post for a day and a time in your own zone. See Give a post its time.\n- Rearrange the grid, which rearranges the schedule. See Change the order.\n- Move a post to another day on the calendar. See Move a post to another day.\n- Take a post back before it goes anywhere. See Withdraw a post.\n- Write one body and a different version of it per destination.\n- Plan as yourself or as a group you administer.\n- See planned reels and stories beside the grid rather than inside it.\n- Connect a destination by pasting a key you fetched yourself. See Connect a destination.\n\n## How to\n\n### Plan a post\n\n1. Open Feed Planner under Manage.\n2. Choose Myself or the group you are planning for in the Planning as row.\n3. Write a title and a body in Compose.\n4. Choose a picture from your gallery, or open the canvas and make one.\n5. Tick each place you want it to go.\n6. Press Save draft.\n\nA draft has no time and will never go out on its own.\n\n### Give a post its time\n\n1. Open Feed Planner under Manage.\n2. Write the post, or open one you saved.\n3. Tick at least one place for it to go.\n4. Set the date and time in the field reading Goes out.\n5. Press Schedule.\n\nThe time is read in your own zone. Nothing is sent until that time passes.\n\n### Change the order\n\n1. Open Feed Planner under Manage.\n2. Drag a square onto the square whose place you want it to take.\n3. Read the line under the grid, which says how many posts changed time.\n4. Press Put back if you want the old order returned.\n\nThe times stay where they are and the posts move between them, so a plan of one a day at nine stays one a day at nine. A post that is already out cannot be moved, because its place in the grid is history.\n\nIf you are not using a mouse, focus a square and use the two arrow buttons on it instead.\n\n### Move a post to another day\n\n1. Open Feed Planner under Manage.\n2. Find the post in the Calendar.\n3. Drag its dot onto the day you want.\n\nThe time of day you set is kept. A post set for nine in the morning is still nine in the morning on the new day.\n\n### Connect a destination\n\n1. Open Feed Planner under Manage.\n2. Read the panel headed Where you can post.\n3. Find the destination and read what it needs.\n4. Press the link to Settings and paste the key there.\n5. Come back. The destination now reads Ready and names the account it posts as.\n\nRivr checks the key the moment you save it, so one that cannot post says so then rather than on the day.\n\n### Withdraw a post\n\n1. Open Feed Planner under Manage.\n2. Find the post under Due next or in the Calendar.\n3. Withdraw it.\n\nA withdrawn post is kept and nothing is sent.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nOnly the groups you administer appear in the Planning as row. A place is never offered, because a place is not something anyone posts as.\n\nA destination needs a working key before you can choose it. You fetch the key from the platform yourself and paste it in. Rivr never signs you in to somebody else's service and never asks for your password there.\n\nHow much work that is differs a great deal, and the panel says which before you start. A Telegram bot token comes from a chat inside Telegram itself and takes a few minutes. A Discord webhook is made by a server admin in the channel's own settings. Instagram, Facebook and Slack each mean registering your own application at the platform first, which is a real errand.\n\nInstagram also needs the account to be a Business or Creator one.\n\nTwo destinations offer no way in at all. Substack takes no post from another application, so a planned post there is a reminder and a copy to paste. Patreon can be read by another application but we have found no documented way for one to write a post.\n\nYour own feed, your groups' member email, and any message thread already linked to Rivr work with no key at all.\n\nA key that expires shows the day it stops working. Rivr refuses to schedule a post for after that day, and says so, rather than letting it fail quietly on the morning.\n\nA post that fails is kept, along with the reason in words and what to do about it. A post the platform refused is tried again on the next run, up to three times. A post refused because the key does not work is not tried again at all, because asking a second time with the same key cannot help; it waits for a fresh one.\n\nA post can also come back marked Needs checking. That means a run took it, never reported back, and we cannot tell whether the platform accepted it. It will not be tried again on its own. Look at the account, then either leave it or plan it again.\n\nNothing here has a send now button. The only way anything leaves is a time you chose.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Broadcast holds the other ways to send something out, including press and the member email.\n- Calendar holds your events and shifts, which is a different calendar from this one.\n- Canvas is where a picture is made before it is planned.\n- Connected services is where a key is pasted before a destination can be posted to.\n- Messages holds the conversations a message thread destination sends into." }, { "slug": "builder", "title": "Builder", "summary": "The page where you make something. A post, an event, a project, a group or an offering, with the place you started from already filled in.", "surface": "Tools > Builder", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I make something new?", "Where is the create page?", "How do I post to my neighbourhood?", "What kinds of thing can I create?", "How do I publish a website from my content?", "How do I add a second page to my site?", "How do I make a page that does something?", "How do I put a sign-up sheet on my site?", "How do I let people claim a job on my website?", "How do I put a contact form on my site?", "Where do the messages from my website's form go?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "open-the-create-page", "title": "Open the create page", "steps": [ "Press the plus button in the bar at the top, or press Builder under Tools.", "The Create page opens on the Post tab." ] }, { "key": "make-a-post", "title": "Make a post", "steps": [ "Open the create page.", "Stay on the Post tab.", "Write the post.", "Choose Post as if you want it to go out as a group you steward rather than as you.", "Choose the kind: Social, Offer, Request or Gratitude.", "Leave Show globally on for everyone, or switch it off and name the places, groups or people who should see it.", "Publish it. You land on the post you made." ] }, { "key": "make-an-offering", "title": "Make an offering", "steps": [ "Open the create page.", "Press the Offering tab.", "Choose what kind of offering it is.", "Fill in the name, the description and the price.", "Save it. You land on the offering you made." ] }, { "key": "publish-a-site", "title": "Publish a site", "steps": [ "Open the site publisher. It opens on a page list with one home page on it.", "Press a page to open it. Give it a title, a menu label and an address. One page is the home page and sits at the top. A page whose address begins with the name of another page sits under that page in the menu, so a photography page beneath your offerings page appears there.", "Add sections to the page. Hero, About, Posts, Events and Offerings fill themselves from your account. Rich text, Testimonials, Gallery, Call to action and Questions hold words you write.", "In a rich text box, leave a blank line between paragraphs. Begin a line with two hashes for a heading, three for a smaller one, an angle bracket for a quotation, a hyphen for a list item, or three hyphens for a divider. Put two stars either side of words to make them strong, one star to emphasise them. For a link, put the words in square brackets and the address straight after in round brackets.", "Press Add page for as many pages as you need, and use the arrows to order them.", "Choose a theme.", "Press Publish site. Every page goes out together. The version and the time it went live appear below.", "To use your own domain, fill in the domain and choose one of your connected providers, then press Bind domain." ] }, { "key": "add-an-app-page", "title": "Add a page that does something", "steps": [ "Open the site publisher and add a page.", "Press Add block and choose one:", "Choose which project, or which event, the block shows. It only offers the ones you own or administer.", "Choose whether one person per item, or several. Choose whether a visitor is asked to sign in before they see the claim buttons, or only when they press one. A potluck can also let people add something that was not on the list.", "Publish. The block appears on that page and nowhere else." ] }, { "key": "add-a-form", "title": "Put a form on your site", "steps": [ "Open the site publisher and press Forms.", "Give the form a name. That name is the heading people read, so write it the way you would say it.", "Add your questions. Each one is a short line, an email address, a phone number, a longer answer, a choose-one, a tick-all-that-apply, or a box somebody has to agree to. Mark the ones you will not do without.", "Write what you want to say back once somebody has sent it. That sentence replaces the form on the page, which is why you do not need a thank-you page.", "Add a page, press Add block, choose Enquiry form, and choose which form it shows.", "Publish." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "group", "project", "offering", "listing", "visibility", "event" ], "related": [ "making-things", "who-can-see-what", "events", "listings" ], "nav": [ "builder" ], "hubPages": [ "builder" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-18", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nBuilder is the page where new things are made. It is also what the plus button in the bar at the top opens.\n\nThere is a second, separate surface with a similar name that publishes a website of as many pages as you need. It carries your own words alongside live content from what you already have. It is covered at the end of this page.\n\n## What you see\n\nBuilder is where you make and publish a website out of what is already in Rivr.\n\nThe page is panels you can rearrange. Above them sits the one control that is never hidden: a switch naming whose site you are editing. It lists you, and every group you administer. Whichever you pick is the site every panel below is about.\n\nSites you can edit sits down the left and is the longer version of that switch: each site you may work on, whether it is published yet, whether it is on its own address, and whether anything is wrong with it.\n\nPages lists the pages of the site, in the order they appear in its menu, and is where you add one, rename one, reorder them or choose what each page is made of. The site's look lives here too, because that is part of what the site is.\n\nPreview shows the site as it would be. It shows the draft, including changes you have not published, which is not the same as what visitors see. Nothing is on the web until you publish.\n\nPublish puts the current draft on the web, and lists what you have published before. You can go back to an earlier version from here; it asks twice, because it replaces a live site.\n\nDomain is where the site gets its own web address, with the exact steps for wherever your address is registered.\n\nAssistant is a conversation about this site. It can read the pages, propose changes and make them, and it works from what is on your screen rather than from what was last published.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Get to the form. See Open the create page.\n- Share something with a place, a group or everyone. See Make a post.\n- Put something up for people to buy or book. See Make an offering.\n- Turn what you have into a website. See Publish a site.\n\n## How to\n\n### Open the create page\n\n1. Press the plus button in the bar at the top, or press Builder under Tools.\n2. The Create page opens on the Post tab.\n\nStarting from a place hub instead carries that place with you. The pill asking whether you have something to share opens the same page with the place already chosen.\n\n### Make a post\n\n1. Open the create page.\n2. Stay on the Post tab.\n3. Write the post.\n4. Choose Post as if you want it to go out as a group you steward rather than as you.\n5. Choose the kind: Social, Offer, Request or Gratitude.\n6. Leave Show globally on for everyone, or switch it off and name the places, groups or people who should see it.\n7. Publish it. You land on the post you made.\n\n### Make an offering\n\n1. Open the create page.\n2. Press the Offering tab.\n3. Choose what kind of offering it is.\n4. Fill in the name, the description and the price.\n5. Save it. You land on the offering you made.\n\n### Publish a site\n\n1. Open the site publisher. It opens on a page list with one home page on it.\n2. Press a page to open it. Give it a title, a menu label and an address. One page is the home page and sits at the top. A page whose address begins with the name of another page sits under that page in the menu, so a photography page beneath your offerings page appears there.\n3. Add sections to the page. Hero, About, Posts, Events and Offerings fill themselves from your account. Rich text, Testimonials, Gallery, Call to action and Questions hold words you write.\n4. In a rich text box, leave a blank line between paragraphs. Begin a line with two hashes for a heading, three for a smaller one, an angle bracket for a quotation, a hyphen for a list item, or three hyphens for a divider. Put two stars either side of words to make them strong, one star to emphasise them. For a link, put the words in square brackets and the address straight after in round brackets.\n5. Press Add page for as many pages as you need, and use the arrows to order them.\n6. Choose a theme.\n7. Press Publish site. Every page goes out together. The version and the time it went live appear below.\n8. To use your own domain, fill in the domain and choose one of your connected providers, then press Bind domain.\n\n### Add a page that does something\n\nA page can do more than say things. It can show the actual work on one of your\nprojects, or the list of what an event still needs, and let a visitor take a\npiece of it. It is recorded on your project, as them.\n\n1. Open the site publisher and add a page.\n2. Press Add block and choose one:\n - **Barn raising** shows a project's jobs and tasks, who has claimed what, and what is still open, and lets a signed-in visitor claim a piece of it.\n - **Potluck** lists what an event needs and who is bringing each thing, so nothing is doubled and nothing is forgotten.\n - **Enquiry form** asks your own questions and sends the answers to you.\n3. Choose which project, or which event, the block shows. It only offers the ones you own or administer.\n4. Choose whether one person per item, or several. Choose whether a visitor is asked to sign in before they see the claim buttons, or only when they press one. A potluck can also let people add something that was not on the list.\n5. Publish. The block appears on that page and nowhere else.\n\nYou can also describe what you want in words. Say \"a page where my crew can\nsign up to help with the greenhouse build\" and the assistant picks the block\nand says which project it is binding it to, before anything goes out. If your\nwords could mean two of your projects, it asks which rather than guessing.\n\n### Put a form on your site\n\nA form is a thing you own, like a project or an event. You write the questions\nonce; a page shows them. Eight different forms, say an application, an enquiry,\na waiting list and a plain \"say hello\", are eight forms and one block rather\nthan eight pages of machinery.\n\n1. Open the site publisher and press Forms.\n2. Give the form a name. That name is the heading people read, so write it the way you would say it.\n3. Add your questions. Each one is a short line, an email address, a phone number, a longer answer, a choose-one, a tick-all-that-apply, or a box somebody has to agree to. Mark the ones you will not do without.\n4. Write what you want to say back once somebody has sent it. That sentence replaces the form on the page, which is why you do not need a thank-you page.\n5. Add a page, press Add block, choose Enquiry form, and choose which form it shows.\n6. Publish.\n\nNobody needs an account to answer. That is the point of a form, and it is the\nonly thing on a published site that works that way. Somebody signed in to Rivr\ncan send it as themselves and it arrives with their name on it; somebody who is\nnot sends it as a stranger, and it arrives with whatever they typed.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to make anything.\n\nThe place you started from is carried into the form. Posting from a place hub posts to that place without you choosing it again.\n\nStarting from a group carries the group with you. The event form arrives with post as a group already ticked.\n\nSelling a paid offering or a paid listing needs a Seller membership or higher. Creating a paid ticketed event needs a Host membership or higher. Without one, a window explains that and offers the plans.\n\nWhatever you make, you land on the thing you made.\n\nThe site publisher works for you and for any group you administer. Your stored provider credentials are used on the server and are never typed into the page.\n\nA site is published whole. Every page goes out in one go, and a saved version is the whole site, so going back to an earlier one brings back every page of it. Your posts, events and offerings stay live on the published site: they are read from your account when somebody visits, so a new post appears without you republishing.\n\nAn app page works the same way and one thing more. What it shows is read from\nyour account when somebody visits, so a task somebody claimed this morning is\ngone from the list this afternoon without you touching the site. The counts on\nit are real: they are what your project actually says, not a number anybody\ntyped.\n\nA visitor who is not signed in sees the public part of the list and an honest\nline about what signing in would add. A visitor who signs in is asked only for what the\nblock needs: to know who they are, and to claim one thing. A published site\ncan never ask for your wallet, your account export, or anything administrative,\nwhatever it is built with. Only the blocks above can appear on a page: nobody,\nincluding the assistant, can put a program of their own on your site.\n\nSomeone who has hidden their name from strangers still counts on the list, so\nnothing gets doubled. They are shown as Someone rather than named.\n\n**You do not have to make anything public to put it on your site.** A page reads\nas the person looking at it. Somebody signed in to Rivr sees what Rivr already\nlets them see: a member of your group sees the members-only jobs, and somebody\noutside it does not, on the same page at the same address. Somebody who is not\nsigned in sees the parts that are public, which is what anybody may see.\n\nSo a private project on a public page is not a mistake. It shows the people who\nare entitled to it and nobody else, and the page tells a stranger that signing\nin may show them more. If you did mean everybody to see it, make it public in\nthe app; the publisher says so when you publish something most visitors will not\nbe able to see.\n\nChanging your mind takes effect on the next visit, in both directions, because\nnothing about who may see what is decided when you publish.\n\nAn answer to a form is a **request in Rivr**, addressed to you. It shows up in\nyour notifications and in \"Waiting on you\" beside your join requests, your\nbookings and everything else somebody is waiting on you for. It does not go to\na separate inbox you have to remember to check, and there is no export step.\n\nThe person who answered becomes a contact in your account: a person record with\ntheir name and the address they gave. If they ever make a Rivr account with that\nsame address, the record becomes theirs and everything they sent you is already\nattached to it. A form's questions are public, because people have to be able to\nread them. The answers are private rows addressed to you.\n\nSending a form is protected without sending your visitors anywhere else. There\nis no puzzle to solve, no pictures of traffic lights, and no third company\nwatching the people who write to you. The page is handed a ticket that only\nworks for that form on that site and only for a while, a message sent faster\nthan anybody could have read the first question is refused, and there is a limit\non how many can arrive from one place in an hour. If somebody presses send twice\nbecause the first press seemed to do nothing, you get one message, not two.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Making things is the shorter explanation of the five tabs.\n- Who can see what explains the visibility control on every form.\n- Canvas is what the Design button opens." }, { "slug": "calendar", "title": "Calendar", "summary": "Everything on your schedule in one place. Events you said yes to, shifts from claimed work, and services people booked with you.", "surface": "Manage > Calendar", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where is my calendar?", "What goes on my calendar automatically?", "Where do I see this week?", "Where do I see what I have to do today?", "How do I start the clock on a job from my calendar?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "read-your-month", "title": "Read your month", "steps": [ "Open Calendar under Manage.", "Find the My schedule panel.", "Switch the view between month, week and day.", "Press an entry to open the thing it stands for." ] }, { "key": "see-today", "title": "See what is on today", "steps": [ "Open Calendar under Manage.", "Read the Today's schedule panel in the right column.", "Read the next thing coming up below it." ] }, { "key": "see-this-week", "title": "See the next seven days", "steps": [ "Open Calendar under Manage.", "Read the This week panel in the right column.", "Read Upcoming shifts and services below it for the claimed work and the bookings." ] }, { "key": "start-a-timer-here", "title": "Start the clock on a job", "steps": [ "Open Calendar under Manage.", "Find the Time tracker panel.", "Choose a job from the list. It holds the work you have claimed.", "Press Start, and press Stop when you finish." ] } ], "terms": [ "event", "shift", "booking", "job", "panel" ], "related": [ "events", "gigs", "dashboard", "hubs-and-panels" ], "nav": [ "calendar" ], "hubPages": [ "calendar" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nCalendar is everything on your schedule, merged into one view.\n\nThree things land on it. Events you said you are going to. Shifts, which are the deadlines of jobs you claimed. Services, which are the bookings people made with you.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Calendar. Above it sits a line saying your schedule.\n\nThe wide middle column holds My schedule, the month, week or day view of everything, colour-coded so events, shifts and services are told apart.\n\nThe narrow right column holds five panels.\n\nToday's schedule shows what is on today and then what is coming next. When there is nothing it says nothing is scheduled.\n\nThis week holds every event, shift and service in the next seven days.\n\nUpcoming shifts and services lists the claimed shifts and booked services, soonest first.\n\nInvitations holds the threads and invitations waiting on your reply.\n\nTime tracker starts and stops the clock on a job you have claimed.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look at the month. See Read your month.\n- Look at today. See See what is on today.\n- Look at the week ahead. See See the next seven days.\n- Clock on to a job. See Start the clock on a job.\n\n## How to\n\n### Read your month\n\n1. Open Calendar under Manage.\n2. Find the My schedule panel.\n3. Switch the view between month, week and day.\n4. Press an entry to open the thing it stands for.\n\n### See what is on today\n\n1. Open Calendar under Manage.\n2. Read the Today's schedule panel in the right column.\n3. Read the next thing coming up below it.\n\n### See the next seven days\n\n1. Open Calendar under Manage.\n2. Read the This week panel in the right column.\n3. Read Upcoming shifts and services below it for the claimed work and the bookings.\n\n### Start the clock on a job\n\n1. Open Calendar under Manage.\n2. Find the Time tracker panel.\n3. Choose a job from the list. It holds the work you have claimed.\n4. Press Start, and press Stop when you finish.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Calendar.\n\nThis is a page of panels, not a single full-screen grid. The month view sits inside its own panel and you can move it like any other.\n\nNothing is added to your calendar by hand. Things arrive because you said you are going to an event, claimed a job with a deadline, or somebody booked a service from you.\n\nThe same schedule feeds the Dashboard's own schedule panel, so the two pages can never disagree.\n\nThe clock here is the same clock as on the Dashboard and on a job's own page. Starting in one and stopping in another works.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Events is where a gathering gets on your calendar.\n- Gigs is where a claimed job's deadline comes from.\n- Dashboard carries one panel over the same schedule, opening on today." }, { "slug": "canvas", "title": "Canvas", "summary": "The design canvas, plus a gallery of everything you have saved on it.", "surface": "Tools > Canvas", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I make a graphic?", "Where do my saved designs go?", "How do I reopen a design?", "How do I make a flyer?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "make-a-design", "title": "Make a design", "steps": [ "Open Canvas under Tools.", "Compose in the editor below the gallery.", "Type a name in the design name field.", "Press Save Design.", "It appears in the gallery above." ] }, { "key": "reopen-a-design", "title": "Reopen a design", "steps": [ "Open Canvas under Tools.", "Find the design in the gallery.", "Press its card. It opens in the editor below.", "Press New design when you want to start a fresh one." ] } ], "terms": [ "document", "panel" ], "related": [ "builder", "docs", "broadcast", "making-things" ], "nav": [ "canvas" ], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nCanvas is where you compose graphics, flyers and cards.\n\nIt is the richest composer in Rivr. It holds your own pictures and saves back into your library.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Canvas. Above it sits the word Tools.\n\nA panel headed My designs holds a gallery of everything you have saved, each with its picture, its name and its size.\n\nWhen you have saved nothing, the panel says so and invites you to compose below and press save.\n\nThe editor sits under the gallery and is always open. It carries a field for the design's name and a button reading Save Design.\n\nOnce you have a design open, a button reading New design appears on the gallery panel.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Compose something and keep it. See Make a design.\n- Open something you made before. See Reopen a design.\n\n## How to\n\n### Make a design\n\n1. Open Canvas under Tools.\n2. Compose in the editor below the gallery.\n3. Type a name in the design name field.\n4. Press Save Design.\n5. It appears in the gallery above.\n\n### Reopen a design\n\n1. Open Canvas under Tools.\n2. Find the design in the gallery.\n3. Press its card. It opens in the editor below.\n4. Press New design when you want to start a fresh one.\n\nA design with nothing editable behind it is greyed out and says so when you hover it.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Canvas.\n\nThe same editor is reached from the Design button on the create page, and from the admin part of a group's press tab. This page is the one that also gives you the gallery back.\n\nSaved designs are stored as pictures in your own library, so they also appear under Docs.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Builder carries the Design button that opens the same editor.\n- Docs holds the saved designs alongside your other files.\n- Broadcast links out to this page as its richest composer." }, { "slug": "choosing-your-places", "title": "Choosing your places", "summary": "The pill in the top bar sets which place you are viewing in, and that choice filters most of the hub.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I set my location?", "Why am I seeing things from the wrong town?", "What does All Locales mean?", "How do I see everything again?", "Does choosing a place move me off the page I am reading?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "choose-a-place", "title": "Choose the place you are viewing in", "steps": [ "Press the pill in the bar at the top.", "Type a few letters in the search box if your list is long.", "Press the place you want.", "The page you are on redraws, filtered to that place. You do not move." ] }, { "key": "clear-the-place", "title": "Go back to seeing every place", "steps": [ "Press the pill in the bar at the top.", "Press All Locales at the top of the list.", "The page redraws with nothing filtered out." ] }, { "key": "join-a-place", "title": "Join a place", "steps": [ "Open Global Hub under My Places.", "Press Places in the breadcrumb at the top of the page.", "Read the panel headed Explore Places. It holds every place you have not joined.", "Press the one you want. Its own page opens." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "place hub", "Global Hub" ], "related": [ "switching-places", "global-hub", "locale-hub", "what-the-hub-is" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA place in Rivr is a real area. A town, a watershed, a bioregion, a council.\n\nYou belong to the places you join. You also choose, at any moment, which single place you are looking through. That choice is a filter, not a move.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe pill in the bar at the top reads: You are viewing in, followed by a place name or the words All Locales.\n\nPressing the pill opens a list. It has a search box at the top, then All Locales, then your places grouped under the basin each one sits in. Places that belong to no basin sit under Other Locales.\n\nThe place you are currently viewing in carries a tick. Commons places carry a star.\n\nDown the left, My Places lists up to eight of your places, with the Global Hub at the bottom.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Narrow the whole hub to one place. See Choose the place you are viewing in.\n- Widen it back out again. See Go back to seeing every place.\n- Add a place to your list. See Join a place.\n\n## How to\n\n### Choose the place you are viewing in\n\n1. Press the pill in the bar at the top.\n2. Type a few letters in the search box if your list is long.\n3. Press the place you want.\n4. The page you are on redraws, filtered to that place. You do not move.\n\n### Go back to seeing every place\n\n1. Press the pill in the bar at the top.\n2. Press All Locales at the top of the list.\n3. The page redraws with nothing filtered out.\n\n### Join a place\n\n1. Open Global Hub under My Places.\n2. Press Places in the breadcrumb at the top of the page.\n3. Read the panel headed Explore Places. It holds every place you have not joined.\n4. Press the one you want. Its own page opens.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYour choice is remembered for a year, on this browser and on your account, so the hub opens where you left it.\n\nThe pages that follow your choice are Events, Groups, People, Voice, Gigs, Explore and the Dashboard.\n\nA place's own page does not follow your choice. It is the page for that one place, so it always shows that place.\n\nOn a place's own page, the same switcher does two things at once. It records your choice and it takes you to that place's page. Choosing All Locales there takes you to the Global Hub.\n\nAn older shared link that carries a place in its address still selects that place, and then drops it from the address bar, so a filtered page is never a separate link you can share.\n\nIf you have joined no places, the list offers All Locales and nothing else.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Switching places explains what changes on each page when you switch.\n- A place hub is what you get when you open one of your places.\n- Global Hub is every place at once." }, { "slug": "connected-services", "title": "Connected services", "summary": "The outside accounts you can link to Rivr, the feeds you can follow, the archives you can bring in, and the messengers you can bridge.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I connect my Google account?", "How do I follow an outside feed?", "How do I import my old data?", "How do I link a messenger to my inbox?", "How do I connect my own domain?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "connect-an-account", "title": "Connect an outside account", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Connectors tab.", "Find the service in the first grid.", "Press Connect.", "Sign in to that service and agree to what Rivr is asking for.", "Come back. The card now names the account." ] }, { "key": "follow-a-feed", "title": "Follow an outside feed", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Connectors tab.", "Find the panel headed Followed feeds.", "Add the feed's address.", "New items arrive as your own posts and events." ] }, { "key": "import-an-archive", "title": "Bring in an archive", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Connectors tab.", "Find the panel headed Import an archive.", "Upload your export file.", "Upload a newer export later if you want. Only the new items are added." ] }, { "key": "bridge-a-messenger", "title": "Bridge a messenger", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Connectors tab.", "Find the panel headed Messenger bridges.", "Follow the steps for the messenger you want.", "Open Messages. A new tab appears for that network." ] } ], "terms": [ "connection", "feed", "bridge", "document" ], "related": [ "settings", "messages", "builder", "docs" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nRivr can read from and write to accounts you hold elsewhere.\n\nThere are four kinds of link, and they all sit on one tab in Settings.\n\n## What you see\n\nOpen Settings under Account and press the Connectors tab. Four panels sit down the page.\n\nThe first is a grid of cards, one per service. Each card shows the service's name and whether you are connected. When you are not, it reads Not connected and carries a Connect button. When you are, it names the account or counts them, and the button reads Connect another account.\n\nUnder that grid sits a second one for domain providers. Their cards say they are for connecting your domain provider.\n\nFollowed feeds lets you follow public article, video and calendar feeds. New items arrive as your own posts and events. No sign-in is needed for these.\n\nImport an archive brings in a personal data export. Re-uploading a newer export only adds the new items.\n\nMessenger bridges links a messenger to your Rivr inbox through a self-hosted bridge. Your sign-in never leaves the server.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Link an account you already have. See Connect an outside account.\n- Pull an outside feed into Rivr. See Follow an outside feed.\n- Bring your old data in. See Bring in an archive.\n- Read another messenger in Messages. See Bridge a messenger.\n\n## How to\n\n### Connect an outside account\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Connectors tab.\n3. Find the service in the first grid.\n4. Press Connect.\n5. Sign in to that service and agree to what Rivr is asking for.\n6. Come back. The card now names the account.\n\nPress Connect another account on a card to add a second account of the same service.\n\n### Follow an outside feed\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Connectors tab.\n3. Find the panel headed Followed feeds.\n4. Add the feed's address.\n5. New items arrive as your own posts and events.\n\n### Bring in an archive\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Connectors tab.\n3. Find the panel headed Import an archive.\n4. Upload your export file.\n5. Upload a newer export later if you want. Only the new items are added.\n\n### Bridge a messenger\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Connectors tab.\n3. Find the panel headed Messenger bridges.\n4. Follow the steps for the messenger you want.\n5. Open Messages. A new tab appears for that network.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to connect anything.\n\nEach service asks for a specific set of permissions, and each one is listed and named before you agree.\n\nThe credential your assistant uses is not on this tab. It lives on the Assistant tab, on its own, so it is never linked by accident.\n\nDomain providers are listed separately from the rest, because they are only used when you publish a site.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Settings is the page these panels sit on.\n- Messages is where a bridged network appears.\n- Builder uses a domain provider when you publish a site." }, { "slug": "dashboard", "title": "Dashboard", "summary": "Your home page in the hub, holding today's tasks, habits, schedule, money, work and activity in one arrangement you control.", "surface": "Home > Dashboard", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What is on my home page?", "Where do I see my tasks for today?", "Where are my habits?", "How do I see everything happening today?", "How do I see this week, or the whole month?", "Why are Quick note and Time tracker folded up?", "Where are my groups on the dashboard?", "Where do I check my balances at a glance?", "Can I change what my home page shows?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "tick-off-a-task", "title": "Tick off a task", "steps": [ "Find the Today's tasks panel.", "Press the box beside the task.", "The task is recorded as done." ] }, { "key": "check-off-a-habit", "title": "Check off a habit", "steps": [ "Find the Today's habits panel.", "Press the box beside the habit.", "The bar for today grows in the Habit tracker panel." ] }, { "key": "switch-the-schedule-view", "title": "Switch the schedule between day, week and month", "steps": [ "Find the schedule panel in the right column.", "It opens on the day. That view lists what is on today, in order.", "Press Week to see the seven days ahead.", "Press Month to see the whole month laid out.", "Your choice is remembered, so the panel opens that way next time." ] }, { "key": "unfold-quick-note", "title": "Unfold Quick note or Time tracker", "steps": [ "Find the panel. It shows only its heading.", "Press the fold control in its heading.", "The panel opens. It stays open for you from then on." ] }, { "key": "see-all-your-places", "title": "See all your places", "steps": [ "Find the Your locales panel at the top of the middle column.", "Read the three places listed.", "Press the control that shows the rest." ] }, { "key": "jot-a-quick-note", "title": "Jot a quick note", "steps": [ "Find the Quick note panel and unfold it if it is folded.", "Write the note.", "Choose the project or job to file it against, if you want it attached to one.", "Save it." ] }, { "key": "start-the-timer", "title": "Start the timer on a job", "steps": [ "Find the Time tracker panel and unfold it if it is folded.", "Choose a job from the list. The list holds the work you have already claimed.", "Press Start. The clock runs and the panel reads Running.", "Press Stop when you finish. The time is logged against that job." ] }, { "key": "rearrange-the-dashboard", "title": "Rearrange the dashboard", "steps": [ "Press and hold on an empty part of a panel to loosen it, then drag it where you want it.", "Pull an edge or a corner to change how wide and how tall it is.", "Open a panel's own menu to move it a place at a time, or to hide it.", "Press Add widget in the page header to bring a hidden one back." ] } ], "terms": [ "hub page", "panel", "place", "job", "Thanks" ], "related": [ "calendar", "gigs", "wallet", "hubs-and-panels" ], "nav": [ "dashboard" ], "hubPages": [ "dashboard" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nThe Dashboard is the page you land on when you sign in. It is the one place that answers what is on today without you opening anything else.\n\nIt is built from panels and you arrange it yourself.\n\n## What you see\n\nAt the top, a greeting with your first name, and a pill asking whether you have something to share today. Pressing the pill opens the Create page.\n\nBeside the greeting sits Today's thought, a single quote for the day.\n\nThe wide middle column opens with Your locales, a globe with your places pinned on it. It lists three of your places, with a quiet way to see the rest. Groups are not in this panel.\n\nMy groups follows it, listing the groups you administer and the groups you belong to.\n\nUnder those sit four small panels in a block.\n\nToday's tasks is your own task list, each with a box to tick.\n\nQuick note is a box to jot something and file it against a project or a job. It starts folded down to its heading.\n\nToday's habits is the habits you keep each day, each with a box to tick.\n\nTime tracker starts and stops the clock against a job you have claimed. It also starts folded.\n\nBelow those, paired across the column, sit eight more panels.\n\nHabit tracker draws your habit streak over the last week, one bar per day.\n\nMatches shows offers and requests the network paired with yours.\n\nMy groups' jobs lists open work in your groups that you could claim.\n\nProject overview charts how your projects have moved.\n\nMy listings shows what you are offering and how much of your time is booked.\n\nFinancial overview shows your Rivr balance, your connected balance and your crypto balance side by side.\n\nRecent post activity shows what you have posted, listed, offered and joined lately.\n\nPinned shows the messages, posts and groups you saved.\n\nHappenings has a panel of its own now. It counts the events, shifts and services in the week ahead.\n\nThe narrow right column runs, top to bottom: Conditions, which is the weather, air quality and the moon over your main place; your schedule, which opens on today and can also show a week or a month; Waiting on your reply, which is the threads where somebody spoke last; and Recent activity, which is notifications you can read or answer without leaving.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Mark a task done. See Tick off a task.\n- Mark a habit done. See Check off a habit.\n- Look at a day, a week or a month. See Switch the schedule between day, week and month.\n- Open a panel that starts folded. See Unfold Quick note or Time tracker.\n- Go past the three places listed. See See all your places.\n- Write a note against a project or a job. See Jot a quick note.\n- Clock on and off a job. See Start the timer on a job.\n- Move, resize, fold, hide or add panels. See Rearrange the dashboard.\n\n## How to\n\n### Tick off a task\n\n1. Find the Today's tasks panel.\n2. Press the box beside the task.\n3. The task is recorded as done.\n\n### Check off a habit\n\n1. Find the Today's habits panel.\n2. Press the box beside the habit.\n3. The bar for today grows in the Habit tracker panel.\n\n### Switch the schedule between day, week and month\n\n1. Find the schedule panel in the right column.\n2. It opens on the day. That view lists what is on today, in order.\n3. Press Week to see the seven days ahead.\n4. Press Month to see the whole month laid out.\n5. Your choice is remembered, so the panel opens that way next time.\n\n### Unfold Quick note or Time tracker\n\n1. Find the panel. It shows only its heading.\n2. Press the fold control in its heading.\n3. The panel opens. It stays open for you from then on.\n\n### See all your places\n\n1. Find the Your locales panel at the top of the middle column.\n2. Read the three places listed.\n3. Press the control that shows the rest.\n\n### Jot a quick note\n\n1. Find the Quick note panel and unfold it if it is folded.\n2. Write the note.\n3. Choose the project or job to file it against, if you want it attached to one.\n4. Save it.\n\n### Start the timer on a job\n\n1. Find the Time tracker panel and unfold it if it is folded.\n2. Choose a job from the list. The list holds the work you have already claimed.\n3. Press Start. The clock runs and the panel reads Running.\n4. Press Stop when you finish. The time is logged against that job.\n\n### Rearrange the dashboard\n\n1. Press and hold on an empty part of a panel to loosen it, then drag it where you want it.\n2. Pull an edge or a corner to change how wide and how tall it is.\n3. Open a panel's own menu to move it a place at a time, or to hide it.\n4. Press Add widget in the page header to bring a hidden one back.\n\nNothing needs confirming. Each change is saved for you a moment after you make it.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nIf you are not signed in you do not reach this page.\n\nIf you have set no home place, the Conditions panel has no weather to show.\n\nIf you belong to no groups, My groups and My groups' jobs are empty and say so.\n\nIf you have claimed no work, Time tracker says there is no claimed work and points you at Gigs.\n\nQuick note and Time tracker arrive folded so the page opens shorter. Unfolding one is remembered.\n\nA taller panel shows more rows before it scrolls, so giving the schedule or the activity panel more height shows you more without opening anything.\n\nYour arrangement is yours. It follows your account to any device and changes nothing for anyone else. If you arranged this page before these panels changed, your arrangement is kept and the new panels arrive alongside it.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Calendar is the fuller version of the schedule panel.\n- Gigs is where the work in My groups' jobs comes from.\n- Wallet is the fuller version of Financial overview." }, { "slug": "docs", "title": "Docs", "summary": "Your documents, the vaults of the groups you belong to, and every session you recorded.", "surface": "Tools > Docs", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where are my documents?", "How do I share a document?", "Where are my group's documents?", "Where do my session recordings go?", "How do I make a document visible to only some people?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "find-your-documents", "title": "Find your documents", "steps": [ "Open Docs under Tools.", "Stay on the My docs tab.", "Read the list, or press Filesystem to browse by kind instead.", "Press a document to open it. It opens on the right with a Save button above it." ] }, { "key": "find-group-documents", "title": "Find a group's documents", "steps": [ "Open Docs under Tools.", "Press the Group docs tab.", "Press the chip for the group. Its count tells you how many it holds.", "Press a document to open it." ] }, { "key": "share-a-document", "title": "Share a document", "steps": [ "Open the document.", "Find the section headed Visibility.", "Choose one of the five settings. Public means anyone can find and view it. Locale means anyone in the same place. Members means members only. Private means you and the people you name. Hidden means it is kept out of listings and reached only by an explicit grant.", "Use the section headed Shared with to name individual people or groups.", "Use the section headed Share as post to publish it to the feed, with a caption if you want one." ] }, { "key": "find-a-recording", "title": "Find a recording", "steps": [ "Open Docs under Tools.", "Press the Recordings tab.", "Switch the list between rows and cards.", "Press a recording to open it, or press the link beside it to open what it was recorded against." ] } ], "terms": [ "document", "group", "visibility", "recording" ], "related": [ "who-can-see-what", "group-hub", "canvas", "making-things" ], "nav": [ "docs" ], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nDocs is your document store. It holds what you wrote, what your groups keep, and the recordings made during events, projects and jobs.\n\nIt is a separate thing from this wiki, which is the public handbook.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Docs. Above it sits the word Tools.\n\nThree tabs, each with a count: My docs, Group docs and Recordings. My docs is where you land.\n\nMy docs holds the panel headed My documents. It carries a control that switches between two views, Documents and Filesystem.\n\nGroup docs holds the panel headed Group documents, with a chip for each group that has a vault and a count on each chip. When you are in no group with a vault, it says so.\n\nRecordings holds two panels. Session recordings lists every session you recorded, each with its name, what it was recorded against and its date. A recording tied to nothing is labelled Unlinked. Tags lists the tags on them.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Read what you have written. See Find your documents.\n- Read what a group keeps. See Find a group's documents.\n- Decide who can see one. See Share a document.\n- Find a recording of a session. See Find a recording.\n\n## How to\n\n### Find your documents\n\n1. Open Docs under Tools.\n2. Stay on the My docs tab.\n3. Read the list, or press Filesystem to browse by kind instead.\n4. Press a document to open it. It opens on the right with a Save button above it.\n\n### Find a group's documents\n\n1. Open Docs under Tools.\n2. Press the Group docs tab.\n3. Press the chip for the group. Its count tells you how many it holds.\n4. Press a document to open it.\n\n### Share a document\n\n1. Open the document.\n2. Find the section headed Visibility.\n3. Choose one of the five settings. Public means anyone can find and view it. Locale means anyone in the same place. Members means members only. Private means you and the people you name. Hidden means it is kept out of listings and reached only by an explicit grant.\n4. Use the section headed Shared with to name individual people or groups.\n5. Use the section headed Share as post to publish it to the feed, with a caption if you want one.\n\n### Find a recording\n\n1. Open Docs under Tools.\n2. Press the Recordings tab.\n3. Switch the list between rows and cards.\n4. Press a recording to open it, or press the link beside it to open what it was recorded against.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Docs.\n\nCreating a document from this page is a group action. On your own documents there is no create button. Your own tab instead offers an upload for transcriptions.\n\nThe two-view control, with Documents and Filesystem, appears only on your own documents.\n\nA document with no visibility set behaves as Members.\n\nOnly the owner, or somebody the owner granted rights to, can change a document's visibility. Everybody else sees the settings read-only.\n\nA session recording made on an event also appears in the recorder's own documents.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Who can see what explains visibility across the whole hub.\n- A group's page carries the Docs tab this page gathers from.\n- Canvas is the other tool that saves into your library." }, { "slug": "events", "title": "Events", "summary": "Every gathering you are going to, interested in, hosting or could discover, with the tools to host one yourself.", "surface": "Manage > Events", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I see events near me?", "How do I say I am going to an event?", "How do I host an event?", "How do I get tickets?", "Where is the live room for an online event?", "How do I invite people to a private event?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "find-an-event", "title": "Find an event", "steps": [ "Open Events under Manage.", "Find the Upcoming events panel.", "Press Discover to see what you have no relationship to yet.", "Press In person or Online to narrow by kind.", "Press an event to open it." ] }, { "key": "rsvp-to-an-event", "title": "Say you are going", "steps": [ "Open the event.", "Press RSVP Going. The button changes to Going.", "Press Interested instead if you are not sure. It changes to Interested with a tick.", "Press the active button again to take your answer back." ] }, { "key": "host-an-event", "title": "Host a gathering", "steps": [ "Press Host a gathering at the top of Events.", "Fill in the details on the Event tab.", "Tick Post event as a group if the gathering belongs to a group, then choose the group.", "Tick Show globally to put it on the home feed for everyone.", "Tick Private event, invite-only instead if it is for named people, then list them.", "Set who can see it with the visibility control.", "Press Create Event. You land on the event you made." ] }, { "key": "get-tickets", "title": "Get tickets", "steps": [ "Open the event.", "Press Get Tickets. It appears only when the event sells them.", "Choose your ticket types and how many of each under Select Tickets.", "Choose how to pay under Payment Method.", "Complete the purchase. A page confirms you are registered." ] }, { "key": "join-the-live-room", "title": "Join an online event's live room", "steps": [ "Open the event.", "Make sure you have pressed RSVP Going.", "Press the live room control. It opens once the event's scheduled time arrives." ] } ], "terms": [ "event", "place", "group", "visibility", "panel" ], "related": [ "calendar", "making-things", "who-can-see-what", "groups" ], "nav": [ "events" ], "hubPages": [ "events-hub" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nEvents are gatherings. Someone hosts one, people say whether they are coming, and some of them sell tickets.\n\nThe Events page gathers every gathering that touches you, plus the ones near you that do not yet.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Events Hub. Above it sits the name of the place you are viewing in, or a line saying across every locale.\n\nA button reading Host a gathering sits at the top right of the middle column. It is always there and cannot be hidden.\n\nThe wide middle column holds three panels.\n\nUpcoming events carries two rows of filters. The first row narrows by kind: All, In person and Online. The second row narrows by your relationship to the event: Going, Interested, Hosting, In Group and Discover. Each carries a count.\n\nThis week holds everything in the next seven days.\n\nDiscover events in my groups holds what your groups have coming up.\n\nThe narrow right column holds a conditions card and a globe showing what is running at this moment.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look for something to go to. See Find an event.\n- Tell the host you are coming. See Say you are going.\n- Put on a gathering of your own. See Host a gathering.\n- Buy a ticket. See Get tickets.\n- Join an online gathering. See Join an online event's live room.\n\n## How to\n\n### Find an event\n\n1. Open Events under Manage.\n2. Find the Upcoming events panel.\n3. Press Discover to see what you have no relationship to yet.\n4. Press In person or Online to narrow by kind.\n5. Press an event to open it.\n\n### Say you are going\n\n1. Open the event.\n2. Press RSVP Going. The button changes to Going.\n3. Press Interested instead if you are not sure. It changes to Interested with a tick.\n4. Press the active button again to take your answer back.\n\n### Host a gathering\n\n1. Press Host a gathering at the top of Events.\n2. Fill in the details on the Event tab.\n3. Tick Post event as a group if the gathering belongs to a group, then choose the group.\n4. Tick Show globally to put it on the home feed for everyone.\n5. Tick Private event, invite-only instead if it is for named people, then list them.\n6. Set who can see it with the visibility control.\n7. Press Create Event. You land on the event you made.\n\n### Get tickets\n\n1. Open the event.\n2. Press Get Tickets. It appears only when the event sells them.\n3. Choose your ticket types and how many of each under Select Tickets.\n4. Choose how to pay under Payment Method.\n5. Complete the purchase. A page confirms you are registered.\n\n### Join an online event's live room\n\n1. Open the event.\n2. Make sure you have pressed RSVP Going.\n3. Press the live room control. It opens once the event's scheduled time arrives.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach the Events page.\n\nAn event's own page adds tabs for About, Attendees, Discussion, Announcements and Financials. A Docs tab appears for the event's admins only.\n\nEdit and Delete appear on an event only for its owner.\n\nAn invite panel appears only on a private event, and only for its owner.\n\nThe live room opens only to people marked Going, inside the scheduled window, and to the event's admins. Outside that it tells you why it is closed.\n\nA private event never appears on a global, place or group feed.\n\nSelling paid tickets needs a Host membership or higher. Without one, a window explains that and offers the plans.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Calendar is where an event you said yes to ends up.\n- Making things covers the Create page, which is where a gathering is made.\n- Who can see what explains the visibility control on the form." }, { "slug": "explore", "title": "Explore", "summary": "The whole network as pictures and as a graph, filtered to the place you are viewing in.", "surface": "Home > Explore", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I browse everything visually?", "How do I see how people and groups are connected?", "Where do I search across everything?", "How do I discover things in my area?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "browse-the-gallery", "title": "Browse the gallery", "steps": [ "Open Explore under Home.", "Find the Gallery panel.", "Scroll inside the panel. More pictures load as you reach the bottom.", "Press a tile to open the thing it shows." ] }, { "key": "narrow-the-graph", "title": "Narrow the graph with a sentence", "steps": [ "Find the Relationship graph panel.", "Build a sentence from the dropdowns above the graph. It reads as who did what to what.", "Press Apply. The graph redraws to only the matching connections.", "Press Clear to start again." ] }, { "key": "search-from-explore", "title": "Search from Explore", "steps": [ "Find the Search everything panel in the right column.", "Press it.", "Type what you are looking for.", "Read the results, grouped as Posts, Events, Groups, People and Listings." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "panel", "feed" ], "related": [ "map", "finding-things", "locale-hub", "hubs-and-panels" ], "nav": [ "explore" ], "hubPages": [ "explore" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nExplore is discovery. It shows the same world as the Map, in two other shapes.\n\nOne shape is a gallery of everything with a picture. The other is a graph of how people, groups and the things they make connect.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe wide middle column holds two panels.\n\nGallery shows everything with a picture in the place you are viewing in, newest first.\n\nRelationship graph draws people, groups and the things they have made as a network you can narrow with a sentence.\n\nThe narrow right column holds Search everything, which takes you to the full search across people, places, groups and posts.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout, and each panel carries its own menu, so you can put either panel away or change how wide it is.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look through everything with a picture. See Browse the gallery.\n- Narrow the graph to a question. See Narrow the graph with a sentence.\n- Move to full search. See Search from Explore.\n\n## How to\n\n### Browse the gallery\n\n1. Open Explore under Home.\n2. Find the Gallery panel.\n3. Scroll inside the panel. More pictures load as you reach the bottom.\n4. Press a tile to open the thing it shows.\n\n### Narrow the graph with a sentence\n\n1. Find the Relationship graph panel.\n2. Build a sentence from the dropdowns above the graph. It reads as who did what to what.\n3. Press Apply. The graph redraws to only the matching connections.\n4. Press Clear to start again.\n\n### Search from Explore\n\n1. Find the Search everything panel in the right column.\n2. Press it.\n3. Type what you are looking for.\n4. Read the results, grouped as Posts, Events, Groups, People and Listings.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nAnyone can open Explore, signed in or not.\n\nChoosing a place in the pill at the top narrows the gallery to that place. All Locales widens it to everything.\n\nThe sentence builder on the graph is the same one used for Flow Planning. Here it filters what is drawn. There it saves a rule.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Map is the same world by location.\n- Finding things covers search, the map, notifications and saved together.\n- Flow Planning uses the same sentence builder to save an agreement." }, { "slug": "feeds-and-views", "title": "Feeds and views", "summary": "Every list in the hub can be read as rows, as cards or as pictures, and it scrolls inside its own panel.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I switch a list to pictures?", "Why does the page not scroll when I scroll the feed?", "How do I load more items?", "Why is the picture view missing here?", "How do I filter a feed by place?", "How do I make a list show more rows before it scrolls?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "switch-a-view", "title": "Switch how a list is drawn", "steps": [ "Find the small control above the list.", "Press List for rows, Cards for tiles, or Gallery for pictures.", "The list redraws. Your choice is remembered for next time." ] }, { "key": "load-more", "title": "Load more of a list", "steps": [ "Put your pointer inside the panel.", "Scroll down inside it.", "When you reach the bottom of what is loaded, more items arrive below.", "If a batch fails, a line says so and invites you to scroll again to retry." ] }, { "key": "filter-a-feed-by-place", "title": "Filter a feed by place", "steps": [ "Press the pill in the bar at the top.", "Choose a place.", "Every feed that follows your choice redraws, narrowed to that place.", "Press All Locales to widen it again." ] }, { "key": "show-more-rows", "title": "Show more rows before a list scrolls", "steps": [ "Find the panel holding the list.", "Drag its bottom edge down. An outline shows the height you would get.", "Let go. The list now shows more rows before it starts to scroll." ] } ], "terms": [ "feed", "panel", "view", "place" ], "related": [ "hubs-and-panels", "locale-hub", "finding-things", "explore" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA feed is any list of things in the hub. Posts, events, groups, people, gigs, offerings, documents, notifications, conversations, transactions and decisions are all feeds.\n\nThey all behave the same way, which is what makes the hub learnable.\n\n## What you see\n\nA list sits inside a panel. The panel has a height you set, and the list fills it. When the list is longer than the panel, it scrolls inside the panel. The page behind it does not move.\n\nHow many rows you see before it scrolls comes from the panel's size. A taller panel shows more. A narrow one in a side column shows fewer, and shows each row more tightly.\n\nWhen you reach the bottom of what is loaded, the next batch arrives and is added below. Nothing already on screen shifts.\n\nAt the end of a fully read list, a line says so. It reads something like that is every open job, or that is everything saved in this category.\n\nWhen a list is empty, a line in its place says what would have been there. No open work right now. No posts yet. Nothing waiting on you.\n\nAbove many lists sits a small control with up to three settings.\n\nList draws each item as a row.\n\nCards draws each item as a bordered tile in a grid.\n\nGallery draws each item as a square picture.\n\nLocal feeds carry tabs as well. A place feed reads Posts, Events, Groups, People, Gigs and Mart. The Posts tab adds a search box and five kinds: All, Social, Offers, Requests and Gratitude.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Change how a list is drawn. See Switch how a list is drawn.\n- Get the next batch. See Load more of a list.\n- Narrow what is in it. See Filter a feed by place.\n- Give a list more room. See Show more rows before a list scrolls.\n\n## How to\n\n### Switch how a list is drawn\n\n1. Find the small control above the list.\n2. Press List for rows, Cards for tiles, or Gallery for pictures.\n3. The list redraws. Your choice is remembered for next time.\n\n### Load more of a list\n\n1. Put your pointer inside the panel.\n2. Scroll down inside it.\n3. When you reach the bottom of what is loaded, more items arrive below.\n4. If a batch fails, a line says so and invites you to scroll again to retry.\n\n### Filter a feed by place\n\n1. Press the pill in the bar at the top.\n2. Choose a place.\n3. Every feed that follows your choice redraws, narrowed to that place.\n4. Press All Locales to widen it again.\n\n### Show more rows before a list scrolls\n\n1. Find the panel holding the list.\n2. Drag its bottom edge down. An outline shows the height you would get.\n3. Let go. The list now shows more rows before it starts to scroll.\n\nMaking the panel wider does the same in the wide middle column, because a wider panel fits more on a row.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nGallery is offered only where the things in the list have a picture to lead with. Posts, events, groups, people and listings have one. Jobs, projects, documents, notifications, conversations, transactions and decisions do not, so those lists only offer List and Cards.\n\nAsking for Gallery where it is not available gives you Cards instead.\n\nA list inside a narrow side column is drawn tighter than the same list in the wide middle column.\n\nA failed batch is not the end of a list. The list keeps its place and lets you try again.\n\nReading to the end of a post feed across your places says you are caught up, and offers to show you what is new everywhere.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Hubs and panels explains the panel the feed sits in, and how to make it taller.\n- A place hub carries the local feed with its six tabs.\n- Explore is the same content drawn as a gallery and as a graph." }, { "slug": "finding-things", "title": "Finding things", "summary": "The four ways to find something. Search, the map, your notifications and your saved list.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I search?", "Where is the search box?", "How do I find something I saw yesterday?", "How do I find something near me?", "How do I find something I bookmarked?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "search-everything", "title": "Search everything", "steps": [ "Press the search box in the bar at the top.", "Type a word or a name.", "Read the results grouped as Posts, Events, Groups, People and Listings.", "Press a tab to read one group at a time.", "Press a result to open it." ] }, { "key": "search-in-place", "title": "Search inside one place", "steps": [ "Press the pill in the bar at the top and choose the place.", "Press the search box and type your word.", "A line under the heading confirms the results are filtered by that place.", "Press the pill again and choose All Locales to widen it." ] }, { "key": "find-by-location", "title": "Find something by where it is", "steps": [ "Open Map under Home.", "Type a place name in the search box above the globe.", "Press one of the five buttons to show only Events, Groups, Posts or Offerings.", "Press a pin to open what it stands for." ] }, { "key": "find-something-you-kept", "title": "Find something you kept", "steps": [ "Open Saved under Manage.", "Press the tab you expect it under, or stay on All.", "Press the card to open it." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "saved", "notification", "feed" ], "related": [ "explore", "map", "saved", "notifications" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nThere are four ways to find something in Rivr, and which one you want depends on what you remember about it.\n\nIf you remember a word, search. If you remember where it was, the map. If it involved you, your notifications. If you kept it, your saved list.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe search box sits in the bar at the top, on every page. It reads: search people, places, groups. Pressing it opens the search.\n\nThe results page heads itself with what you searched for and counts the results. Five tabs run across it: Posts, Events, Groups, People and Listings. A tab shows its count only when it has something in it.\n\nWith nothing searched yet, a card invites you to search the network and offers some examples to press.\n\nWhen a place is chosen, a line under the heading says the results are filtered by it.\n\nThe Map is the same world by location. The bell is your notifications. Saved under Manage is your bookmarks.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look across everything at once. See Search everything.\n- Narrow a search to one place. See Search inside one place.\n- Find something by where it happened. See Find something by where it is.\n- Go back to something you bookmarked. See Find something you kept.\n\n## How to\n\n### Search everything\n\n1. Press the search box in the bar at the top.\n2. Type a word or a name.\n3. Read the results grouped as Posts, Events, Groups, People and Listings.\n4. Press a tab to read one group at a time.\n5. Press a result to open it.\n\n### Search inside one place\n\n1. Press the pill in the bar at the top and choose the place.\n2. Press the search box and type your word.\n3. A line under the heading confirms the results are filtered by that place.\n4. Press the pill again and choose All Locales to widen it.\n\n### Find something by where it is\n\n1. Open Map under Home.\n2. Type a place name in the search box above the globe.\n3. Press one of the five buttons to show only Events, Groups, Posts or Offerings.\n4. Press a pin to open what it stands for.\n\n### Find something you kept\n\n1. Open Saved under Manage.\n2. Press the tab you expect it under, or stay on All.\n3. Press the card to open it.\n\nIf you did not bookmark it but it involved you, press the bell in the bar at the top and look through your notifications instead.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nAnyone can search, signed in or not.\n\nSearch also returns matches from other instances Rivr federates with. Anything you can already see in the hub is left out of those, so nothing appears twice.\n\nYour saved list needs you to be signed in.\n\nSearch covers posts, events, groups, people and listings. It does not search inside your documents or your conversations. Documents are found under Docs, and conversations under Messages.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Explore is browsing rather than searching.\n- Map is the same world by location.\n- Saved is what you chose to keep, and Notifications is what happened to you." }, { "slug": "flow-planning", "title": "Flow Planning", "summary": "Write a sentence that says when something happens, do something, and save it as an agreement that runs itself.", "surface": "Tools > Flow Planning", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I make something happen automatically?", "How do I write an agreement?", "What is an agreement in Rivr?", "How do I pause an agreement?", "How do I delete an agreement?", "Where do I see the decisions open in my groups?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "write-a-sentence", "title": "Write the sentence", "steps": [ "Open Flow Planning under Tools.", "Find the row marked when.", "Choose a determiner for who. The choices are any, my, the and that.", "Choose who. You can name a person or a group, or choose Everyone, Any Person or Any Group.", "Choose what they do. The verbs are grouped as Economic, CRUD, Work, Governance, Membership, Lifecycle, Social and Permissions.", "Choose the determiner and the thing it happens to. For a thing rather than a person, the determiners add a and all.", "Move to the row marked then and choose what you do in response.", "Press Add Action to chain another thing after it." ] }, { "key": "add-a-condition", "title": "Add a condition", "steps": [ "Press Add Condition below the action rows.", "A row marked if appears.", "Fill it in the same way as the when row.", "The agreement now runs only when that condition also holds.", "Press the cross beside the row to drop the condition again." ] }, { "key": "save-an-agreement", "title": "Save it as an agreement", "steps": [ "Fill in the when row and at least one then row.", "Press Save as Agreement at the top of the composer.", "Type a name in the field marked Agreement Name.", "Press Save Agreement.", "A note confirms it is now active, and it appears under My agreements." ] }, { "key": "pause-an-agreement", "title": "Pause an agreement", "steps": [ "Open Flow Planning under Tools.", "Find the agreement under My agreements.", "Press the switch at the left of its row.", "It stops running. Press the switch again to start it running." ] }, { "key": "delete-an-agreement", "title": "Delete an agreement", "steps": [ "Open Flow Planning under Tools.", "Find the agreement under My agreements.", "Press the delete control at the right of its row.", "A note confirms it is gone." ] } ], "terms": [ "agreement", "ledger", "badge", "Thanks", "group" ], "related": [ "having-a-say", "voice", "ai", "money" ], "nav": [ "contracts" ], "hubPages": [ "contracts" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nFlow Planning is where you write a sentence that the hub keeps for you and acts on.\n\nThe sentence has two halves, and an optional third. The first half says when something happens. The second says what should happen then. The third narrows it with a condition.\n\nOnce you save it, it has a name, and it runs whenever the first half comes true.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Flow planning. Above it sits the word Tools.\n\nThree panels sit down the page.\n\nThe conditional composer is the sentence builder. At the top of it sit a heading, a Save as Agreement button, a Clear button and an Apply button. Below those sits a box you can describe your agreement in plain English, with a Parse button beside it. Under that runs the sentence itself, as a row of small dropdowns.\n\nThe first row is marked when. It reads as: a determiner, who, does what, a determiner, with what.\n\nThe next rows are marked then, and each one after that is marked and. Each reads as: you do what, a determiner, with what, to a determiner, who. A link below them reads Add Action.\n\nA link marked Add Condition opens one more row, marked if. It reads the same way as the when row. A cross closes it again.\n\nUnder the rows, a small canvas draws the sentence as a picture.\n\nMy agreements lists what you have saved. Each row carries a switch, the name, the sentence in words, a count of how many times it has run, and a control to delete it.\n\nOpen decisions in my groups lists the proposals and polls open in your groups, with how many votes each has and what share is in favour.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Say when something happens and what should follow. See Write the sentence.\n- Narrow it so it only runs sometimes. See Add a condition.\n- Keep it. See Save it as an agreement.\n- Stop it running for a while. See Pause an agreement.\n- Get rid of it. See Delete an agreement.\n\n## How to\n\n### Write the sentence\n\n1. Open Flow Planning under Tools.\n2. Find the row marked when.\n3. Choose a determiner for who. The choices are any, my, the and that.\n4. Choose who. You can name a person or a group, or choose Everyone, Any Person or Any Group.\n5. Choose what they do. The verbs are grouped as Economic, CRUD, Work, Governance, Membership, Lifecycle, Social and Permissions.\n6. Choose the determiner and the thing it happens to. For a thing rather than a person, the determiners add a and all.\n7. Move to the row marked then and choose what you do in response.\n8. Press Add Action to chain another thing after it.\n\n### Add a condition\n\n1. Press Add Condition below the action rows.\n2. A row marked if appears.\n3. Fill it in the same way as the when row.\n4. The agreement now runs only when that condition also holds.\n5. Press the cross beside the row to drop the condition again.\n\n### Save it as an agreement\n\n1. Fill in the when row and at least one then row.\n2. Press Save as Agreement at the top of the composer.\n3. Type a name in the field marked Agreement Name.\n4. Press Save Agreement.\n5. A note confirms it is now active, and it appears under My agreements.\n\n### Pause an agreement\n\n1. Open Flow Planning under Tools.\n2. Find the agreement under My agreements.\n3. Press the switch at the left of its row.\n4. It stops running. Press the switch again to start it running.\n\n### Delete an agreement\n\n1. Open Flow Planning under Tools.\n2. Find the agreement under My agreements.\n3. Press the delete control at the right of its row.\n4. A note confirms it is gone.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Flow Planning.\n\nAn agreement belongs to whoever saved it, and it acts as that person.\n\nThree worked examples, written as they read in the composer.\n\nThe first. When any person joins my group, I give them a badge. The when row names any person and the verb join, with the thing being your group. The then row gives a badge to that same person.\n\nThe second. When any person buys my listing, I send them Thanks. The when row names any person and the verb buy, with the thing being your listing. The then row sends Thanks to that same person.\n\nThe third, with a condition. When any person completes a job, I give them points, if that person belongs to my group. The when row names any person and the verb complete, with the thing being a job. The then row gives points to that same person. The if row checks that the person belongs to your group.\n\nThe Save as Agreement button appears only once at least one then row has a verb in it. The Clear button appears only once you have set something.\n\nThe quantity control appears only on the kinds of thing that can be counted: vouchers, Thanks, products, listings and badges.\n\nMembership verbs act on people rather than things, so the second half of that row offers people.\n\nThe list of saved agreements is not drawn at all when you have none.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Voice is where the decisions listed at the bottom of this page are answered.\n- Having a say explains proposals, polls and issues.\n- AI can do one thing for you now, where an agreement does a thing every time." }, { "slug": "getting-a-key", "title": "Getting a key from another service", "summary": "How Rivr walks you through fetching a key or an address from a service it cannot sign you in to.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I get the key this box is asking for?", "How do I connect a service that has no sign-in button?", "What do I do when a link in the instructions does not open?", "Why can Rivr not point my Squarespace domain for me?", "How do I know what a key lets Rivr do?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "find-the-steps", "title": "Find the steps for a service", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Connectors tab.", "Find the service you want.", "Read the block under the box. It is already open if you have saved nothing." ] }, { "key": "fetch-a-key", "title": "Fetch a key and bring it back", "steps": [ "Read the part headed Before you start, and sort out anything listed there first.", "Press the link on a step. It opens in a new tab, so the Rivr form stays where it is.", "Do the one action that step describes, then come back and read the next one.", "Copy what the other service gives you. Many services show a key once and never again.", "Paste it into the matching box in Rivr and save.", "Press Test where the panel offers it, and read what comes back." ] }, { "key": "carry-on-without-a-link", "title": "Carry on when a link does not open", "steps": [ "Read the step again. Every step names the menu path in the other service's own words, so the link is a shortcut and never the instruction.", "Sign in to that service and follow the named path.", "If the path has moved as well, look for the words the step uses. Services rename pages more often than they move them.", "Tell us. The date at the foot of the block says when the steps were written, and stale steps get rewritten." ] } ], "terms": [ "connection", "feed", "bridge", "panel" ], "related": [ "connected-services", "settings", "builder", "messages" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nSome services let Rivr sign you in with one press. Others do not, and for those you have to go to the service yourself, fetch something, and bring it back.\n\nRivr never leaves you guessing what that something is. Wherever a box asks you to paste a key, a set of steps sits beside it.\n\nThe steps are written once and shown everywhere that box appears, so the words never disagree with themselves.\n\n## What you see\n\nA small block sits under or beside the box asking for the key. Its top line names the errand and the service, and says roughly how long it takes.\n\nWhen the errand waits on the other service approving something, the top line says that too, so you learn it before you start rather than at the last step.\n\nOpen the block and you get the same shape every time.\n\nFirst, what you end up with, named the way the other service names it. This is how you know you have found the right thing when you get there.\n\nThen one line on what it lets Rivr do, and one on what it does not.\n\nThen anything that has to be true before you start. An account of a particular kind, a verified domain, a paid plan. Where that is itself an errand, it has its own steps.\n\nThen the steps, numbered, one action each. A step may carry a link straight to the page you need.\n\nThen what to paste back, box by box, with the shape to expect.\n\nThen how to tell it worked, and what the failure looks like when it does not.\n\nAt the foot, the date the steps were written.\n\nThe block is open when you have nothing saved yet and folded once you have. You can fold or open it yourself at any time.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Read the steps for the service in front of you. See Find the steps for a service.\n- Go and fetch the key, then bring it back. See Fetch a key and bring it back.\n- Get where you are going when a link is dead. See Carry on when a link does not open.\n\n## How to\n\n### Find the steps for a service\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Connectors tab.\n3. Find the service you want.\n4. Read the block under the box. It is already open if you have saved nothing.\n\n### Fetch a key and bring it back\n\n1. Read the part headed Before you start, and sort out anything listed there first.\n2. Press the link on a step. It opens in a new tab, so the Rivr form stays where it is.\n3. Do the one action that step describes, then come back and read the next one.\n4. Copy what the other service gives you. Many services show a key once and never again.\n5. Paste it into the matching box in Rivr and save.\n6. Press Test where the panel offers it, and read what comes back.\n\n### Carry on when a link does not open\n\n1. Read the step again. Every step names the menu path in the other service's own words, so the link is a shortcut and never the instruction.\n2. Sign in to that service and follow the named path.\n3. If the path has moved as well, look for the words the step uses. Services rename pages more often than they move them.\n4. Tell us. The date at the foot of the block says when the steps were written, and stale steps get rewritten.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to save anything.\n\nSome blocks are written for whoever runs this Rivr instance rather than for you. A service that nobody has registered this instance with says so in place of a connect button, and the steps are the ones an administrator follows once for everybody.\n\nA group's keys are separate from your own. Open the group's own settings to work on those, and you need admin standing in that group.\n\nThe key your assistant uses sits on its own tab, apart from the rest, so it is never linked by accident.\n\nWhere a service offers no way to do the thing at all, the block says so plainly and gives you the manual route instead. Squarespace is the one that comes up most: it publishes nothing that lets Rivr change your DNS records, so the steps tell you how to add them yourself.\n\nThe addresses in these steps are not checked automatically. They were written from each service's own documentation, and a block whose links have never been opened by anybody here says so at the foot. That is why every step also names the path in words.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Connected services lists the four kinds of link and where each one lives.\n- Settings is the page most of these boxes sit on.\n- Builder is where a domain provider's key gets used." }, { "slug": "gigs", "title": "Gigs", "summary": "Work you can claim, work you have claimed, and what the groups you belong to are building.", "surface": "Manage > Gigs", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I find work near me?", "How do I claim a job?", "Where do I see the jobs I took on?", "How do I track my time on a job?", "How do I get paid for a gig?", "How do I post a job?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "find-work", "title": "Find work", "steps": [ "Open Gigs under Manage.", "Find the Available work panel.", "Type a word in the search box to narrow by title.", "Press a pay kind: All work, Fixed price, Hourly or Volunteer.", "Press a when: Any time, Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month or Upcoming.", "Choose a group from the list, or leave it on All groups." ] }, { "key": "claim-a-job", "title": "Claim a job", "steps": [ "Find the job in the Available work panel.", "Press Claim on its card.", "The button changes to Claimed and a note confirms the claim.", "The job moves into the My jobs panel." ] }, { "key": "track-time-on-a-job", "title": "Track your time on a job", "steps": [ "Open the job from the My jobs panel.", "Press the Timer tab.", "Choose a task, or leave it on the whole job.", "Press Start.", "Press Stop when you finish. The period is logged and a note tells you how long it was." ] }, { "key": "post-a-job", "title": "Post a job", "steps": [ "Press Post a job at the top of Gigs.", "Fill in the title, the description and how it is paid.", "Set how many people may claim it, and any deadline.", "Save it." ] }, { "key": "offer-a-service", "title": "Offer a service", "steps": [ "Press Offer a service at the top of Gigs.", "Choose what kind of offering it is.", "Fill in the details and the price.", "Save it. You land on the offering you made." ] } ], "terms": [ "gig", "job", "shift", "claim", "project", "Thanks", "points" ], "related": [ "wallet", "calendar", "subgroups-and-projects", "money" ], "nav": [ "work" ], "hubPages": [ "work-hub" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nGigs is the work board. A job is a piece of work somebody posted. Claiming one puts your name on it.\n\nSome jobs pay cash, some pay points, and some are volunteer work that mints a Thanks voucher.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Gigs Hub. Above it sits the place you are viewing in, or a line about offering what you can and asking for what you need.\n\nTwo buttons sit at the top right of the middle column, above everything arrangeable. They read Offer a service and Post a job.\n\nThe wide middle column holds four panels.\n\nAvailable work lists the open jobs you could claim. A search box narrows it by title. Three rows of controls narrow it further. The first row is the kind of pay: All work, Fixed price, Hourly and Volunteer. The second row is when: Any time, Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month and Upcoming. The third is a list of your groups, starting with All groups. Each card carries a Claim button.\n\nWork near you pins the jobs and projects on this page on a globe.\n\nMy jobs lists the work you have already claimed. When you have none, it says so.\n\nDiscover projects in my groups lists what your groups are building.\n\nThe narrow right column holds Current projects, which is your open tasks across every project, and Waiting on your reply.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look for something to take on. See Find work.\n- Put your name on a job. See Claim a job.\n- Clock on and off. See Track your time on a job.\n- Ask somebody else to do something. See Post a job.\n- Offer what you can do. See Offer a service.\n\n## How to\n\n### Find work\n\n1. Open Gigs under Manage.\n2. Find the Available work panel.\n3. Type a word in the search box to narrow by title.\n4. Press a pay kind: All work, Fixed price, Hourly or Volunteer.\n5. Press a when: Any time, Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month or Upcoming.\n6. Choose a group from the list, or leave it on All groups.\n\n### Claim a job\n\n1. Find the job in the Available work panel.\n2. Press Claim on its card.\n3. The button changes to Claimed and a note confirms the claim.\n4. The job moves into the My jobs panel.\n\nPress Claim again to withdraw your claim.\n\n### Track your time on a job\n\n1. Open the job from the My jobs panel.\n2. Press the Timer tab.\n3. Choose a task, or leave it on the whole job.\n4. Press Start.\n5. Press Stop when you finish. The period is logged and a note tells you how long it was.\n\nThe Time tracker panel on the Dashboard and on Calendar runs the same clock. Starting in one and stopping in the other works.\n\n### Post a job\n\n1. Press Post a job at the top of Gigs.\n2. Fill in the title, the description and how it is paid.\n3. Set how many people may claim it, and any deadline.\n4. Save it.\n\n### Offer a service\n\n1. Press Offer a service at the top of Gigs.\n2. Choose what kind of offering it is.\n3. Fill in the details and the price.\n4. Save it. You land on the offering you made.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Gigs.\n\nThe whole board follows the pill in the top bar. Choosing a place narrows it to that place.\n\nOnly jobs that are open or already running, and that still have a free place, appear under Available work. A job with no pay kind is hidden by any specific pay filter. A job with no date is hidden by any specific when filter.\n\nA job's own page carries tabs for About, Tasks, Timer and Stock. Points appears when there is a share to show. Review appears for the people who manage or attest the job. Docs appears for its managers and for the people actively working on it.\n\nOnly a job's manager sees the admin panel, with Edit job, Add task, Mark done and Release payment.\n\nGetting paid is two steps by somebody else. A manager presses Mark done, which records the contribution and the cash owed. Then a manager presses Release payment, which attests it and pays it out. The control then reads that it is paid.\n\nA volunteer job mints a Thanks voucher rather than moving cash.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Wallet is where the money for a finished job arrives.\n- Calendar shows a claimed job's deadline as a shift.\n- Subgroups and projects explains where a job sits." }, { "slug": "global-hub", "title": "Global Hub", "summary": "Every place at once, with the global feed, a wide map and the same panels a place hub carries.", "surface": "My Places > Global Hub", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I see what is happening everywhere?", "Where is the global feed?", "What do I see before I join a place?", "How do I share something with the whole network?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "open-the-global-hub", "title": "Open the Global Hub", "steps": [ "Look at My Places in the menu on the left.", "Press Global Hub, which sits at the bottom of that list.", "The page opens." ] }, { "key": "read-the-global-feed", "title": "Read the global feed", "steps": [ "Open the Global Hub.", "Find the Global feed panel in the middle.", "Press one of its six tabs to narrow it.", "Scroll inside the panel. More items load as you reach the bottom." ] }, { "key": "find-a-place-to-join", "title": "Find a place to join", "steps": [ "Open the Global Hub.", "Press Places in the breadcrumb at the top.", "Read the panel headed Explore Places. It lists every place you have not joined.", "Press one to open it." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "place hub", "Global Hub", "feed" ], "related": [ "locale-hub", "choosing-your-places", "switching-places", "explore" ], "nav": [ "global-hub" ], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nThe Global Hub is a place hub with no place. It shows every place at once.\n\nIt is also the front door for anyone who is not signed in.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Global Hub. Above it sits the line: every locale, every bioregion.\n\nIf you are signed in you are greeted by name, with a pill asking what you want to share with the whole network.\n\nThe wide middle column holds the Global feed. It carries the same six tabs a local feed does: Posts, Events, Groups, People, Gigs and Mart.\n\nThe narrow left column holds High activity listings.\n\nThe narrow right column holds Happening right now, Local ads and Local good news, at the widest scope.\n\nThere is no panel describing where this is, because the Global Hub is not one place.\n\nThe map is centred on your own place, pulled far enough back to take in a continent.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Open it from anywhere. See Open the Global Hub.\n- Read what the whole network is posting. See Read the global feed.\n- Join a place. See Find a place to join.\n\n## How to\n\n### Open the Global Hub\n\n1. Look at My Places in the menu on the left.\n2. Press Global Hub, which sits at the bottom of that list.\n3. The page opens.\n\n### Read the global feed\n\n1. Open the Global Hub.\n2. Find the Global feed panel in the middle.\n3. Press one of its six tabs to narrow it.\n4. Scroll inside the panel. More items load as you reach the bottom.\n\n### Find a place to join\n\n1. Open the Global Hub.\n2. Press Places in the breadcrumb at the top.\n3. Read the panel headed Explore Places. It lists every place you have not joined.\n4. Press one to open it.\n\nIf every place on this deployment is already yours, that panel says so.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nAnyone can open the Global Hub, signed in or not.\n\nA signed-out visitor gets no greeting and no sharing pill.\n\nThe Global Hub and a place hub share one arrangement. Moving a panel on one moves it on the other.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- A place hub is the same page narrowed to one place.\n- Choosing your places explains the pill in the top bar.\n- Explore is the same world as pictures and as a graph." }, { "slug": "glossary", "title": "Glossary", "summary": "Every word you meet in the hub, defined once, in alphabetical order.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What does this word mean?", "What is a panel?", "What is Thanks?", "What is a proxy?", "What is a place?" ], "tasks": [], "terms": [], "related": [ "what-the-hub-is", "hubs-and-panels", "money", "having-a-say" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "glossary", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nThe hub uses a small number of words over and over. This page defines each of them once.\n\nEvery other page in this handbook draws its vocabulary from here, so a word means the same thing wherever you meet it.\n\n## Terms\n\n### admin\n\nSomebody who steers a group. An admin can open its settings and its treasury, promote and demote members, post jobs, create subgroups and moderate its feed.\n\n### agreement\n\nA sentence you saved under Flow Planning. It says that when something happens, something else should follow, and it runs itself from then on.\n\n### assistant\n\nThe conversational helper under AI. It can act in Rivr for you, one confirmed action at a time.\n\n### badge\n\nA mark a group issues to somebody, recording something they did or something they are trusted with.\n\n### ballot\n\nOne open question you can answer. Every proposal and every poll carries one.\n\n### bioregion\n\nA region defined by nature rather than by borders. A watershed, an ecoregion or a cultural bioregion. Places sit inside them, and the map can draw their outlines.\n\n### booking\n\nA claim on one of your offerings that carries a time slot. A claim with no time slot is an order instead.\n\n### bridge\n\nA link between an outside messenger and your Rivr inbox. Once bridged, that network appears as its own tab under Messages.\n\n### claim\n\nPutting your name on a job so that you are the one doing it.\n\n### connection\n\nAn account you hold elsewhere and have linked to Rivr, so the two can read from or write to each other.\n\n### document\n\nA file you wrote or uploaded. Yours sit under Docs, and a group's sit in its vault.\n\n### event\n\nA gathering with a time. People say whether they are going, and some events sell tickets.\n\n### federation\n\nThe way separate Rivr sites see each other. Your account lives on one of them and the others can work with you without a second sign-in.\n\n### feed\n\nAny list of things in the hub. It scrolls inside its own panel and loads more as you reach the bottom.\n\n### gig\n\nA piece of paid or volunteer work somebody has posted, listed under Gigs and claimable by whoever wants it.\n\n### Global Hub\n\nA place hub with no place. It shows every place at once, and it is the front page for anyone not signed in.\n\n### group\n\nA set of people who do something together. A household, an organization, a ring or a family. Each one has its own page of tabs.\n\n### hub page\n\nA page built from panels you can move, resize, minimize, hide and bring back. Most pages in the hub are one.\n\n### instance\n\nOne Rivr site. There are many, they federate with each other, and your account is homed on one of them.\n\n### issue\n\nSomething raised inside a group for discussion, before anybody votes. It carries comments rather than votes.\n\n### job\n\nA named piece of work with a description, a way of being paid, and a number of places for people to claim.\n\n### ledger\n\nThe running record of everything that has happened in Rivr. An agreement watches it and acts when what it is waiting for appears.\n\n### listing\n\nSomething offered for sale or for booking. Yours are managed under Listings and bought under Marketplace.\n\n### member\n\nSomebody who belongs to a group. A member can read its members-only tabs, post in its feed, add to its market and use its chat.\n\n### membership\n\nA paid tier on your own account. Which tier you hold decides whether you can create paid events, paid listings and organizations.\n\n### notification\n\nA record that somebody did something involving you. They gather behind the bell in the bar at the top.\n\n### offering\n\nSomething you provide. A skill, a product, a service, a trip, a ticket, a voucher, data, a grant round, a gift or a bounty.\n\n### order\n\nA claim on one of your offerings that carries no time slot. A claim with a time slot is a booking instead.\n\n### panel\n\nOne card on a hub page, answering one question. Panels are what a hub page is built from.\n\n### payout\n\nMoving money out of a connected account and into your bank. One route takes a few days. The other is instant, where your account supports it.\n\n### persona\n\nAn alternate identity you can post under. It belongs to you and you switch to it and back from your own profile. The word is also used for a card of readings on a profile, which is a description rather than an identity.\n\n### place\n\nA real area you can belong to. A town, a watershed, a bioregion or a council. Choosing one filters most of the hub.\n\n### place hub\n\nThe front page of one place, holding its local feed, a map of what is live, and where the place sits.\n\n### points\n\nA record of contribution. Some jobs pay in points rather than in money.\n\n### poll\n\nA question with a set of answers, raised inside a group. You answer it on that group's own page.\n\n### portal\n\nA ring standing at a place in XR Earth. Walking through it puts you in a room another instance hosts.\n\n### press\n\nA group's syndicated articles, news and media, gathered from the accounts it has connected.\n\n### project\n\nA piece of work with jobs beneath it, a page of its own and a share of its group's money.\n\n### proposal\n\nA yes or no question raised inside a group. You answer Yes, No or Abstain.\n\n### proxy\n\nYour vote, handed to somebody you trust, for a named scope and for as long as you choose. You can take it back at any time.\n\n### quorum\n\nThe minimum turnout a decision needs. It is set by whoever raised the decision, not by Rivr.\n\n### receipt\n\nThe record of one purchase, with its status, its date, its totals and its payment details.\n\n### recording\n\nA session recorded during an event, a project or a job. Recordings gather under Docs.\n\n### room\n\nA small world an instance hosts, reached through a portal. Who may enter follows the room's own visibility.\n\n### saved\n\nSomething you bookmarked. Everything saved gathers on one page, sorted into categories for you.\n\n### scope\n\nHow much of a group's decision-making a proxy covers. Either the whole group, or one category of decision inside it.\n\n### shift\n\nA claimed job's deadline, shown on your calendar alongside events and bookings.\n\n### sighting\n\nA record that somebody saw a physical thing at a place and a time. The newest sighting is where the thing stands on the map.\n\n### stake\n\nA share of a group's profit. Each group allocates it from its own contribution figures.\n\n### subgroup\n\nA group that lives inside another group, with its own page, its own members and its own tabs.\n\n### tag\n\nThe sticker, code or number a physical thing is recognised by. NFC, QR, or typed.\n\n### Thanks\n\nA token people give each other for something done. It is counted separately from money, and a voucher holds Thanks until it is redeemed.\n\n### thing\n\nA real object Rivr knows about through its tag, with a page, a place and its sightings.\n\n### thread\n\nOne conversation inside Messages, between people or inside a group, a project or an event room.\n\n### treasury\n\nA group's money, as opposed to yours. It sits behind the Treasury tab on a group's page and only its admins can see it.\n\n### view\n\nHow a list is drawn. Rows, cards or pictures.\n\n### visibility\n\nWho can see something you made. It is set per thing, and the words differ between a post, a document, your profile and a group's tabs.\n\n### voucher\n\nAn offering that holds Thanks until it is redeemed. Claiming one holds the Thanks. Redeeming it releases them.\n\n### wallet\n\nYour own money in Rivr, with its balances, its transactions and its payouts.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- What the hub is introduces the shape of the whole thing.\n- Hubs and panels explains the words for the page itself.\n- Money and Having a say hold the two densest vocabularies." }, { "slug": "group-hub", "title": "A group's page", "summary": "Every group has its own page with tabs for its feed, events, members, documents, work, market, decisions and more.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What is on a group's page?", "Why does one group have more tabs than another?", "Where do I post inside a group?", "How do I chat with a group?", "Why can I not see a tab somebody else mentioned?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "open-a-group", "title": "Open a group", "steps": [ "Look at My Groups in the menu on the left.", "Press the group you want.", "Its page opens on the About tab." ] }, { "key": "post-inside-a-group", "title": "Post inside a group", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press the Feed tab.", "Write in the composer at the top. It appears only if you are a member.", "Publish it." ] }, { "key": "open-group-chat", "title": "Open a group's chat", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press Chat at the top right. It appears only if you are a member.", "The group's room opens in Messages." ] }, { "key": "change-what-a-tab-shows", "title": "Change who can see a tab", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press Group Settings at the top right. It appears only for admins.", "Press the Tab Visibility tab.", "Set each tab to Public, Members, Admin or Hidden.", "Press Save Tab Visibility." ] }, { "key": "rearrange-a-groups-about-tab", "title": "Rearrange a group's About tab", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Stay on the About tab.", "Press and hold a panel to loosen it, then drag it where you want it.", "Pull its right edge, its bottom edge or its corner to change its size.", "Open a panel's own menu to move it a place at a time or to hide it.", "Press Add widget in the header to bring one of the eight switched-off panels in." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "subgroup", "visibility", "feed", "panel", "treasury" ], "related": [ "members-and-roles", "organization-tree", "joining-and-leaving", "group-treasury", "hubs-and-panels" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [ "group-hub" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA group is a set of people who do something together. A household, an organization, a ring, a family.\n\nEach group has one page, split into tabs. Which tabs exist depends on the kind of group. Which tabs you can see depends on whether you are a member and whether you are an admin.\n\n## What you see\n\nAt the top, a cover image, the group's picture, its name, and its description.\n\nIf the group sits inside another group, a trail of its parents runs under the name, each one a link, ending in this group.\n\nBelow that, the member count and, when the group has set one, its location. Then its tags and its links.\n\nTo the right sit up to three buttons. Group Settings appears for admins. Chat appears for members. The third is the join control, which everybody sees.\n\nUnder the header runs the tab strip. A basic group carries six tabs: About, Feed, Events, Groups, Members and Docs.\n\nAn organization carries fourteen: About, Feed, Events, Groups, Members, Docs, Jobs, Mart, Governance, Badges, Stake, Press, Treasury and Stock. A subgroup or an affiliate of an organization carries the same fourteen.\n\nAbout is a page of panels you can arrange, like the Dashboard. Add widget and Reset layout sit in its header.\n\nIts narrow left column holds About, which is the description, the tags, where the group meets and how to reach it, and Members, which lists who belongs with admins first.\n\nIts wide middle column holds Org tree, which draws the subgroups, the projects inside them and the jobs inside those. A button in its corner switches between the indented list and a family tree, with the group on top and each generation on the row below it. Then Subgroups, the groups nested directly under this one. Then Upcoming events. Then Open jobs and roles, which is the work this group is asking for. Then Open decisions, which is the proposals, polls and issues still open here. Then Treasury snapshot, which is money in and out of the group wallet and is drawn for admins only. Then a map of this group's places.\n\nIts narrow right column holds Docs and Recent activity.\n\nEight more panels are registered and switched off. Add any of them from the Add widget list: Badges, Stake, Press, Marketplace, Group needs, Groups your friends are in, Join requests and Member changes. The last two are for admins.\n\nFeed is the group's posts. Members get a composer above them.\n\nEvents lists the group's gatherings.\n\nGroups is the organization tree. See the organization tree page.\n\nMembers lists the people, with the count above them.\n\nDocs is the group's documents.\n\nJobs is the board of projects and jobs.\n\nMart is the group's listings, with the total above them.\n\nGovernance is proposals, polls and issues.\n\nBadges is the badges the group issues.\n\nStake is the member profit-share table.\n\nPress is the group's press, news and media.\n\nTreasury is the group's money. It is for admins only.\n\nStock has two parts, Inventory and Needs.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Find and open a group. See Open a group.\n- Write something for the group. See Post inside a group.\n- Talk to the group in a chat room. See Open a group's chat.\n- Decide who can see each tab. See Change who can see a tab.\n\n## How to\n\n### Open a group\n\n1. Look at My Groups in the menu on the left.\n2. Press the group you want.\n3. Its page opens on the About tab.\n\nTo reach a group you have not joined, open Groups under Manage and read the panel headed Discover groups.\n\n### Post inside a group\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press the Feed tab.\n3. Write in the composer at the top. It appears only if you are a member.\n4. Publish it.\n\n### Open a group's chat\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press Chat at the top right. It appears only if you are a member.\n3. The group's room opens in Messages.\n\nIf nothing happens, the group has not switched its chat room on yet. An admin does that in the group's settings.\n\n### Rearrange a group's About tab\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Stay on the About tab.\n3. Press and hold a panel to loosen it, then drag it where you want it.\n4. Pull its right edge, its bottom edge or its corner to change its size.\n5. Open a panel's own menu to move it a place at a time or to hide it.\n6. Press Add widget in the header to bring one of the eight switched-off panels in.\n\nYour arrangement is yours. It applies to every group's About tab, not to that one group only.\n\n### Change who can see a tab\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press Group Settings at the top right. It appears only for admins.\n3. Press the Tab Visibility tab.\n4. Set each tab to Public, Members, Admin or Hidden.\n5. Press Save Tab Visibility.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nBy default, About, Feed, Events, Members, Press and Stock are public. Groups, Docs, Jobs, Mart, Governance, Badges, Stake and Treasury are for members. An admin can change any of these.\n\nTreasury is the one exception. It is removed for anyone who is not an admin, whatever the setting says.\n\nOnly members see the Feed composer, the Chat button, the Add Listing button on Mart, and the Flow Pass button.\n\nThe Membership card lists this group's plans for sale, and any subgroup's plan that is switched on with a price, named after its subgroup. Classes nobody can subscribe to, such as Rivr's Stewards and Workers, never appear there.\n\nOnly admins see Group Settings, Manage membership plans, Create Subgroup, Add Relationship, Post Job, the Members admin panel, and the documents filesystem view.\n\nCreating an event, and editing the Needs list under Stock, are open to admins and, when the group allows members to post, to members.\n\nAsking for a tab you cannot see lands you on About instead.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Joining and leaving explains the third button at the top right.\n- Members and roles explains who is an admin and how that changes.\n- The group treasury explains the Treasury tab.\n- Hubs and panels explains how to arrange the About tab's panels." }, { "slug": "group-treasury", "title": "A group's treasury", "summary": "The money a group holds, its accounts, what is waiting on you, and where its policy is set. Group admins only.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I see my group's money?", "Why can I not see the Treasury tab?", "What is waiting on my signature?", "How do I export a group's transactions?", "How is a group treasury different from my own wallet?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "open-the-treasury", "title": "Open a group's treasury", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press the Treasury tab. It appears only if you are an admin of that group.", "The panels load." ] }, { "key": "filter-transactions", "title": "Narrow the transaction list", "steps": [ "Find the Recent transactions panel.", "Press one of the five filters: All, Income, Expenses, Transfers or Payroll.", "Scroll inside the panel to load more." ] }, { "key": "export-transactions", "title": "Export the transactions", "steps": [ "Find the Reports and trends panel.", "Press the small button marked CSV. It appears only when there is something to export.", "The file downloads." ] }, { "key": "open-manage-treasury", "title": "Open the treasury settings", "steps": [ "Open the group's Treasury tab.", "Press Manage treasury at the top right.", "Four sections open: accounts and payment rails, payroll and payout policy, subgroup banking and spending limits, and crypto settings." ] } ], "terms": [ "treasury", "wallet", "group", "admin", "project" ], "related": [ "money", "wallet", "subgroups-and-projects", "members-and-roles" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [ "treasury" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA group's treasury is the money the group holds, as opposed to the money you hold.\n\nIt sits behind the Treasury tab on a group's page, and it is for group admins only. Members and visitors never see it.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe tab is headed Treasury, with Manage treasury beside it and the page's own Add widget and Reset layout controls.\n\nTen panels sit below, and one more is available to add.\n\nTreasury snapshot gives the current balance, then three figures labelled Available, Reserved and Committed, then this month's revenue, expenses and net.\n\nWaiting on you lists work claims awaiting your attestation and treasury proposals awaiting your signature. Each row opens the page where you act on it.\n\nAccounts and wallets lists the group's accounts with their connection state and their balances, each with a link reading Manage.\n\nUpcoming payments lists the next payroll release and any transfers waiting to be executed.\n\nRecent transactions lists the group's transactions with five filters: All, Income, Expenses, Transfers and Payroll.\n\nBudget status lists the spending limits the group has set on its crypto treasury, each with how much is left.\n\nRevenue streams lists this month's inflows by kind, with the change from last month beside each.\n\nSubgroup and project balances lists each pocket with what is available and what has been spent.\n\nTreasury governance lists the group's open proposals and polls, each linking into its Governance tab.\n\nReports and trends draws six months of net cashflow, offers a CSV download, and lists past fiscal closes.\n\nPayroll and payouts is registered but switched off. Add it from the Add widget list if you want it.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Open it. See Open a group's treasury.\n- Show only one kind of transaction. See Narrow the transaction list.\n- Take the transactions away as a file. See Export the transactions.\n- Change the group's money settings. See Open the treasury settings.\n\n## How to\n\n### Open a group's treasury\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press the Treasury tab. It appears only if you are an admin of that group.\n3. The panels load.\n\nYou can also open Wallet under Manage and press its Treasuries tab, then choose the group.\n\n### Narrow the transaction list\n\n1. Find the Recent transactions panel.\n2. Press one of the five filters: All, Income, Expenses, Transfers or Payroll.\n3. Scroll inside the panel to load more.\n\n### Export the transactions\n\n1. Find the Reports and trends panel.\n2. Press the small button marked CSV. It appears only when there is something to export.\n3. The file downloads.\n\n### Open the treasury settings\n\n1. Open the group's Treasury tab.\n2. Press Manage treasury at the top right.\n3. Four sections open: accounts and payment rails, payroll and payout policy, subgroup banking and spending limits, and crypto settings.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nOnly a group admin reaches any of this. For anyone else the tab is removed from the strip, and the page behind it shows nothing.\n\nNothing is signed or attested inside these panels. Each row links out to the page where the action happens.\n\nA group with no crypto treasury sees the budget panel empty, with a line explaining where budgets are set.\n\nA group whose payroll withholding is off sees the payroll panel say so.\n\nThe one download on this surface is the CSV. There is no statement to print.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Money explains how a group treasury differs from your own wallet.\n- Wallet is your own money, and carries a Treasuries tab for the groups you administer.\n- Subgroups and projects explains the pockets the balances panel lists." }, { "slug": "groups", "title": "Groups", "summary": "The groups you administer, the groups you belong to, the ones you could join, and what you are waiting on.", "surface": "Manage > Groups", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I see all my groups?", "How do I find a group to join?", "How do I start a group?", "Where do I see the groups I asked to join?", "Which groups do I run?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "see-your-groups", "title": "See your groups", "steps": [ "Open Groups under Manage.", "Find the My groups panel.", "Press I administer for the ones you run, or I belong to for the rest.", "Press a group to open it." ] }, { "key": "discover-a-group", "title": "Find a group to join", "steps": [ "Open Groups under Manage.", "Find the Discover groups panel.", "Type a word in the search box to narrow the list.", "Press a group to open it, then press its join button." ] }, { "key": "start-a-group", "title": "Start a group", "steps": [ "Press Start a group at the top of Groups.", "Fill in the name and description on the Group tab.", "Choose the Group Type. The choices are Basic, Org, Ring and Family.", "Choose a parent group if this one sits inside another.", "Set Discovery to Public or Hidden, and choose how people join.", "Press Create Group. You land on the group you made." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "subgroup", "member", "admin", "place" ], "related": [ "group-hub", "joining-and-leaving", "requests-to-join", "organization-tree" ], "nav": [ "groups" ], "hubPages": [ "groups-hub" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nGroups under Manage is the page about your relationship to groups, as opposed to any one group's own page.\n\nIt holds the ones you run, the ones you are in, the ones you could join, and the ones you have asked to join.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Groups Hub. Above it sits the name of the place you are viewing in, or a line saying across every locale.\n\nA button reading Start a group sits at the top right of the middle column. It is always there and cannot be hidden.\n\nThe wide middle column holds two panels.\n\nMy groups carries two tabs, each with a count: I administer and I belong to. When you administer none, that tab says so and explains that groups you steer or belong to gather here. At the bottom of a full list, a line says that is every group you are part of.\n\nDiscover groups holds the groups in the place you are viewing in that you have not joined. Its heading counts them and names the place. A search box narrows the list by name, description and tag.\n\nThe narrow right column holds two panels.\n\nPending requests lists the groups you asked to join and how long ago. When there are none it says nothing is waiting.\n\nGroups near you pins the groups with a location on a globe.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- See everything you belong to. See See your groups.\n- Look for something to join. See Find a group to join.\n- Make a group of your own. See Start a group.\n\n## How to\n\n### See your groups\n\n1. Open Groups under Manage.\n2. Find the My groups panel.\n3. Press I administer for the ones you run, or I belong to for the rest.\n4. Press a group to open it.\n\n### Find a group to join\n\n1. Open Groups under Manage.\n2. Find the Discover groups panel.\n3. Type a word in the search box to narrow the list.\n4. Press a group to open it, then press its join button.\n\nYou can also join straight from the card, without opening the group.\n\n### Start a group\n\n1. Press Start a group at the top of Groups.\n2. Fill in the name and description on the Group tab.\n3. Choose the Group Type. The choices are Basic, Org, Ring and Family.\n4. Choose a parent group if this one sits inside another.\n5. Set Discovery to Public or Hidden, and choose how people join.\n6. Press Create Group. You land on the group you made.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to see your own groups. A signed-out visitor is told to sign in.\n\nDiscover groups follows the pill in the top bar. Choosing a place narrows it to that place. All Locales widens it to your places.\n\nGroups you have already joined never appear under Discover groups.\n\nTurning a basic group into an organization needs an Organization membership or higher. Without one, a window explains that.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- A group's page is what opens when you press one.\n- Joining and leaving explains the button at the top of a group.\n- The organization tree explains how groups nest." }, { "slug": "having-a-say", "title": "Having a say", "summary": "How a group decides things, and how you hand your vote to somebody you trust for as much or as little as you choose.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How does voting work?", "What is the difference between a proposal and a poll?", "What is an issue?", "How do I hand my vote to someone for only the budget decisions?", "Can I still vote after I have delegated?", "How long does a proxy last?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "understand-the-three", "title": "Tell a proposal, a poll and an issue apart", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Read the Decisions to vote on panel. Each row is labelled Proposal or Poll.", "A proposal shows Yes, No and Abstain on the row. Answer it there.", "A poll shows a button reading Answer poll. Press it to answer on the group's own page.", "Read the Issues and proposals panel for what is still being discussed. Press the filter reading Issues to see only those." ] }, { "key": "give-a-narrow-proxy", "title": "Hand over only one kind of decision", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Press Manage proxies.", "Find the form headed Delegate a scope.", "Choose the Group.", "Set Scope to One category. This choice appears only when the group has filed categories.", "Choose the Category. That is the one kind of decision you are handing over.", "Choose a Duration: until you take it back, seven days, thirty days, or ninety days.", "Press Find a proxy, search for the person, and press Choose.", "Press Delegate." ] }, { "key": "end-a-proxy", "title": "End a proxy", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Press Manage proxies.", "Find the proxy under Active, or under Waiting on an answer.", "Press Take back.", "A note confirms your vote is yours again." ] } ], "terms": [ "proposal", "poll", "issue", "ballot", "proxy", "scope", "quorum", "group" ], "related": [ "voice", "groups", "group-hub", "flow-planning" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA group decides things together. This page explains the shapes a decision takes, and what happens to your vote when you are not there.\n\n## What you see\n\nThree things get raised inside a group, on its Governance tab, and gathered for you under Voice.\n\nA proposal is a yes or no question. You answer Yes, No or Abstain.\n\nA poll offers a set of answers. You pick one, on the group's own Governance tab.\n\nAn issue is something raised for discussion before anyone votes. It carries comments rather than votes.\n\nEvery open decision shows what share is in favour, how many votes there are, and how long is left. A deadline reads as no deadline, closes today, a number of days left, or closed.\n\nA proxy hands your vote to somebody else. Every proxy names a scope, and a scope is either a whole group or one category of decision inside a group.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Know which of the three you are looking at. See Tell a proposal, a poll and an issue apart.\n- Give somebody your vote on one kind of decision only. See Hand over only one kind of decision.\n- Take it back. See End a proxy.\n\n## How to\n\n### Tell a proposal, a poll and an issue apart\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Read the Decisions to vote on panel. Each row is labelled Proposal or Poll.\n3. A proposal shows Yes, No and Abstain on the row. Answer it there.\n4. A poll shows a button reading Answer poll. Press it to answer on the group's own page.\n5. Read the Issues and proposals panel for what is still being discussed. Press the filter reading Issues to see only those.\n\n### Hand over only one kind of decision\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Press Manage proxies.\n3. Find the form headed Delegate a scope.\n4. Choose the Group.\n5. Set Scope to One category. This choice appears only when the group has filed categories.\n6. Choose the Category. That is the one kind of decision you are handing over.\n7. Choose a Duration: until you take it back, seven days, thirty days, or ninety days.\n8. Press Find a proxy, search for the person, and press Choose.\n9. Press Delegate.\n\nYour vote on every other kind of decision in that group stays yours.\n\n### End a proxy\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Press Manage proxies.\n3. Find the proxy under Active, or under Waiting on an answer.\n4. Press Take back.\n5. A note confirms your vote is yours again.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nA proxy starts as a request. It carries nothing until the other person accepts it. Until then it sits under Waiting on an answer.\n\nYou can vote yourself on any decision, even one you delegated. The row shows who carries it and a button reading Vote anyway. Pressing it reveals the ballot without choosing for you. Your own answer replaces the proxy for that one decision, and the proxy stays in place for everything else.\n\nA narrower scope beats a wider one. If you gave one person your whole group and another person one category, the category person carries that category.\n\nYou can hold only one proxy per scope. Take the old one back before making a new one.\n\nA proxy cannot loop back to you, and a chain is limited to three steps so everyone can see where a vote ends up.\n\nA proxy carries your weight, not the weight of the person holding it.\n\nAn accepted proxy the holder never uses moves nothing. It counts as an abstention, not as a yes.\n\nEither side can end a proxy. The person carrying your vote can hand it back.\n\nWhether a decision needs a minimum turnout is set by whoever raised it. There is no Rivr-wide number.\n\nYou can only delegate a vote you are eligible to cast, and only to somebody eligible in the same scope.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Voice is the page all of this happens on.\n- A group's page carries the Governance tab where a decision is written.\n- Flow Planning lists the open decisions in your groups alongside your agreements." }, { "slug": "hubs-and-panels", "title": "Hubs and panels", "summary": "Most pages in the hub are built from panels you can move, resize in both directions, fold, hide and bring back.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I move things around on my dashboard?", "How do I make a panel taller?", "How do I resize a panel by dragging it?", "How do I drag a panel without finding the handle?", "How do I move a panel without dragging it?", "How do I hide a panel I never use?", "I hid something by mistake. How do I get it back?", "Why does my panel only show a few items?", "Can I collapse the menu sections on the left?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "loosen-a-panel", "title": "Loosen a panel and drag it from anywhere", "steps": [ "Press and hold on an empty part of the panel, away from any button, link or list.", "Hold for about half a second. The panel lifts slightly and its border firms up. That means it is loose.", "Drag it where you want it. The other panels move out of the way as you go.", "Let go." ] }, { "key": "resize-by-dragging", "title": "Resize a panel by dragging its edge", "steps": [ "Put your pointer on the panel's right edge to change its width, its bottom edge to change its height, or its bottom right corner to change both.", "Press and drag. An outline shows the size you would get if you let go now. The panel itself does not move until then.", "Let go. The panel snaps to the nearest whole column and row." ] }, { "key": "move-without-dragging", "title": "Move a panel without dragging it", "steps": [ "Move focus to the panel's menu and open it.", "Choose Move up or Move down to shift the panel one place inside its column.", "Choose one of the Move to entries to send it to a different column instead." ] }, { "key": "grow-a-panel", "title": "Grow a panel to full height", "steps": [ "Find the chevron in the middle of the panel's bottom edge. It appears when the panel is at a middling height.", "Press it. The panel goes to the tallest height it has.", "Press it again. The panel returns to the height it came from." ] }, { "key": "fold-a-panel", "title": "Fold a panel down to its heading", "steps": [ "Find the fold chevron at the top right of the panel.", "Press it. The panel folds down to its heading and the body disappears.", "Press it again to open the panel back up." ] }, { "key": "hide-a-panel", "title": "Hide a panel", "steps": [ "Open the panel's own menu.", "Choose Hide, followed by the panel's name." ] }, { "key": "bring-a-panel-back", "title": "Bring a hidden panel back", "steps": [ "Press Add widget in the page header. The number beside it is how many panels are put away.", "Read the list. Each entry gives the panel's name and one line about what it shows you.", "Press the one you want. It lands at the end of its usual column." ] }, { "key": "reset-a-page", "title": "Put a page back the way it started", "steps": [ "Press Reset layout in the page header.", "Press the one command inside it, which names what it is about to do." ] }, { "key": "fold-a-menu-section", "title": "Fold a menu section shut", "steps": [ "Look at the menu down the left side of the screen.", "Press the heading of a section, such as My Groups.", "The section folds shut. Press the heading again to open it." ] } ], "terms": [ "hub page", "panel" ], "related": [ "dashboard", "feeds-and-views", "making-things", "glossary" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA hub page is a page made of panels. Each panel answers one question, such as what is on today, who is waiting on a reply, or what work you could pick up.\n\nPanels behave like windows. You move them, you set how wide and how tall they are, and you put the ones you do not want away.\n\nThere is no mode to enter first. A panel is movable whenever you press and hold it, and resizable whenever you reach for its edge.\n\nYou arrange a hub page yourself. Your arrangement is saved to your account, so the same page looks the same on your laptop and on your phone.\n\nThe pages you can arrange are the Dashboard, a place hub, the Global Hub, Explore, Events, Groups, People, Gigs, Voice, Calendar, Profile, Flow Planning, Support, a group's About tab, a project's About tab, and a group's Treasury.\n\n## What you see\n\nA hub page has a greeting row at the top and then up to three columns beneath it.\n\nSome panels sit beside the greeting. Some sit in a narrow left column. Most sit in the wide middle column. The rest sit in a narrow right column.\n\nThe columns sit on a grid. A panel takes a whole number of columns across and a whole number of rows down, so nothing ever lands half way.\n\nEvery panel carries two small chevrons, and they do different things.\n\nOne folds the panel down to its heading and brings it back. The panel keeps its place in the page and loses only its body.\n\nThe other sits in the middle of the panel's bottom edge. It grows a panel of middling height to the tallest it goes, and returns it to the height it had. This one appears only while the panel is at that middling height, or once it has been grown.\n\nEach panel also carries its own small menu, beside the fold chevron. It holds the commands that are neither a drag nor a resize: move the panel up, move it down, send it to another column, and hide it.\n\nBring your pointer onto a panel and two more things appear: that menu, and three grips you can drag. One grip sits on the panel's right edge, one along its bottom, and one at its bottom right corner. On a touch screen, where there is nothing to hover with, they are there all the time.\n\nThe page header carries two controls of its own. Add widget lists the panels you have put away. Reset layout puts the page back the way it started.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Drag a panel from anywhere on it. See Loosen a panel and drag it from anywhere.\n- Pull an edge or a corner to resize. See Resize a panel by dragging its edge.\n- Move a panel with the keyboard. See Move a panel without dragging it.\n- Take a panel to full height and back. See Grow a panel to full height.\n- Fold a panel without putting it away. See Fold a panel down to its heading.\n- Put a panel away. See Hide a panel.\n- Bring a hidden panel back. See Bring a hidden panel back.\n- Undo every change you have made to a page. See Put a page back the way it started.\n- Fold a whole section of the left menu shut. See Fold a menu section shut.\n\n## How to\n\n### Loosen a panel and drag it from anywhere\n\n1. Press and hold on an empty part of the panel, away from any button, link or list.\n2. Hold for about half a second. The panel lifts slightly and its border firms up. That means it is loose.\n3. Drag it where you want it. The other panels move out of the way as you go.\n4. Let go.\n\nYou can drop a panel into a different column as well as above or below another one.\n\nA quick tap does nothing, and neither does a press that starts on a button, a link, a box you can type in, or a list you can scroll. Those still do what they always do.\n\nPress the Escape key while dragging to abandon the move and put the panel back.\n\n### Resize a panel by dragging its edge\n\n1. Put your pointer on the panel's right edge to change its width, its bottom edge to change its height, or its bottom right corner to change both.\n2. Press and drag. An outline shows the size you would get if you let go now. The panel itself does not move until then.\n3. Let go. The panel snaps to the nearest whole column and row.\n\nPress the Escape key while dragging to abandon the resize.\n\nThe grips take keyboard input too. Move focus to a grip and press the arrow keys to step one column or one row at a time.\n\nSome panels will not go below a certain height. A panel whose body is a picture, such as a globe, a chart or a month grid, stops one or two rows above the shortest size, because there would be no picture left to look at.\n\n### Move a panel without dragging it\n\n1. Move focus to the panel's menu and open it.\n2. Choose Move up or Move down to shift the panel one place inside its column.\n3. Choose one of the Move to entries to send it to a different column instead.\n\nA panel already at the top of its column cannot move up, and one at the bottom cannot move down. Those commands are there and greyed out, so the ends of a column are visible rather than surprising.\n\n### Grow a panel to full height\n\n1. Find the chevron in the middle of the panel's bottom edge. It appears when the panel is at a middling height.\n2. Press it. The panel goes to the tallest height it has.\n3. Press it again. The panel returns to the height it came from.\n\nThis is not the same as folding. Folding takes the body away. Growing gives the body more room.\n\n### Fold a panel down to its heading\n\n1. Find the fold chevron at the top right of the panel.\n2. Press it. The panel folds down to its heading and the body disappears.\n3. Press it again to open the panel back up.\n\n### Hide a panel\n\n1. Open the panel's own menu.\n2. Choose Hide, followed by the panel's name.\n\nThe panel leaves the page at once and joins the Add widget list in the page header.\n\n### Bring a hidden panel back\n\n1. Press Add widget in the page header. The number beside it is how many panels are put away.\n2. Read the list. Each entry gives the panel's name and one line about what it shows you.\n3. Press the one you want. It lands at the end of its usual column.\n\nIf every panel is already on the page, the list reads that there is nothing left to add.\n\n### Put a page back the way it started\n\n1. Press Reset layout in the page header.\n2. Press the one command inside it, which names what it is about to do.\n\nThe page returns to the arrangement it had before you ever touched it, heights included. Reset asks this way because it is the one control here that throws work away.\n\n### Fold a menu section shut\n\n1. Look at the menu down the left side of the screen.\n2. Press the heading of a section, such as My Groups.\n3. The section folds shut. Press the heading again to open it.\n\nYour browser remembers which sections you folded. This one is per browser, not per account.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nEvery change you make is saved for you. There is nothing to confirm and nothing to close, so a panel you move stays moved even if you walk away from the page.\n\nChanges you make in quick succession are saved together, a moment after the last of them. If a save does not go through, the page goes back to where that run of changes started and tells you so.\n\nA panel you hide is hidden only for you. Nobody else's page changes.\n\nSome panels start folded, so the page opens shorter. Unfold one and it stays unfolded for you.\n\nSome pages show a panel only when they have something to put in it. The Global Hub does not show the panel that describes where a place sits, because the Global Hub is not one place.\n\nA panel shows as many rows as its height allows and then scrolls inside itself. Scrolling to the bottom of a panel loads more items into that same panel. The page behind it does not move.\n\nEvery size is its own view. A panel does not have a big look and a small look. It has a look for the box it is in, and the same rules decide it for every panel, so two panels the same size look like they were made together.\n\nWhat changes as you shrink a panel: it shows fewer rows, then it drops the muted second line under each row, then it drops the faces, then it drops the controls beside its heading. Which of those go depends on which way you shrank it. Taking width away takes the faces. Taking height away takes the second line. A half-width panel four rows tall keeps both.\n\nAt the shortest height a panel stops being a list at all. It tells you how many there are and shows you the next one. That is the whole panel, and it is meant to be: one row of height is one line of room. A panel with nothing worth saying in one line does not offer that height, so you cannot drag it there.\n\nIf you have asked your device to reduce motion, panels still move out of the way as you drag, but they arrive at once instead of sliding.\n\nWhen we add a new panel to a page, it appears for everybody, including people who arranged that page a year ago. When we retire one, it disappears and leaves no gap. Your own widths and heights survive both.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Feeds and views explains why a list stays inside its panel, and how height changes what it shows.\n- Dashboard is the page most people arrange first.\n- Glossary defines panel and hub page." }, { "slug": "instances-of-rivr", "title": "Instances of Rivr", "summary": "Rivr runs as several instances that trust each other, and this page names the ones that are live today and what each one is for.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Which Rivr sites are there?", "What is the difference between the hub and my own instance?", "Where is my group's instance?", "Can I sign in everywhere with one account?", "Where are rooms hosted?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "find-your-instances", "title": "Find the instances you belong to", "steps": [ "Open Profile under Manage.", "If you are taken to another site, that site is your home.", "Open Groups under My Groups. A group that runs its own instance names it on its page." ] }, { "key": "sign-in-on-another-instance", "title": "Sign in on another instance", "steps": [ "Open the other instance.", "Sign in with the same account. The hub vouches for you and no second password is needed.", "You see what that instance lets you see, under your own name." ] } ], "terms": [ "instance", "federation", "portal", "room", "Global Hub" ], "related": [ "your-account-across-places", "portals-and-rooms", "global-hub", "switching-places" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nRivr is not one site. It is a small fleet of instances, each running the same hub, each owned by somebody, and each trusting the others.\n\nThe hub at app.rivr.social is the front door. Every account can sign in there, it shows every place at once, and it is the instance that vouches for people to the others.\n\nA person can run their own instance, and a group can run its own. Their profile, their documents, their rooms and their things live there, on their own computer, and the hub shows them alongside everything else.\n\n## What you see\n\nThese instances are live today.\n\nThe hub, at app.rivr.social. The Global Hub lives here, and so does the Map with XR Earth.\n\nCameron's own instance, at rivr.camalot.me. A person instance. It hosts Cameron's Room, the room behind the portal at his address.\n\nSpirit of the Front Range, at spirit-of-the-front-range.rivr.social. A group instance. It hosts the Spirit Room, behind the portal across the street.\n\nMutual Aid Boulder, at mutual-aid-boulder.rivr.social. A group instance.\n\nTwo more, bob2 and mab2, are test copies of a person instance and a group instance, and they are not for daily use.\n\nEach instance has the same menu, the same panels and the same handbook. What differs is whose home it is, and what it hosts.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- See which instances are yours. See Find the instances you belong to.\n- Use your account on an instance that is not your home. See Sign in on another instance.\n- Step into a room another instance hosts. See Portals and rooms.\n\n## How to\n\n### Find the instances you belong to\n\n1. Open Profile under Manage.\n2. If you are taken to another site, that site is your home.\n3. Open Groups under My Groups. A group that runs its own instance names it on its page.\n\n### Sign in on another instance\n\n1. Open the other instance.\n2. Sign in with the same account. The hub vouches for you and no second password is needed.\n3. You see what that instance lets you see, under your own name.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYour account has one home. Everywhere else you are a visitor whom your home vouches for.\n\nA room is entered on the terms of the instance hosting it. What it lets you see follows its own visibility settings, not the hub's.\n\nEvery instance answers the same way for assistants and for other instances, so a portal on the hub can lead to a room on any of them.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Your account across places explains how the vouching works.\n- Portals and rooms is how you walk from one instance's world into another's.\n- The Global Hub is the hub's own front page.\n- Switching places is about places within one instance, not instances." }, { "slug": "joining-and-leaving", "title": "Joining and leaving a group", "summary": "One button at the top of a group's page joins it, applies to it, or leaves it, and its wording tells you which.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I join a group?", "Why does the join button say Request Pending?", "What does Invite Required mean?", "How do I leave a group?", "Why is a group asking me for a password?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "join-an-open-group", "title": "Join an open group", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press Join Group at the top right.", "You become a member at once. A note confirms you now have access." ] }, { "key": "apply-to-a-group", "title": "Apply to a group that reviews applications", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press Apply to Join at the top right.", "Read the instructions the group wrote for applicants.", "Answer the questions. Required ones are marked with a star.", "Enter the group password if one is asked for.", "Press Submit application.", "The button changes to Request Pending. An admin will answer." ] }, { "key": "unlock-a-password-group", "title": "Unlock a group that asks for a password", "steps": [ "Open the group. A window opens asking for the password.", "Type the password.", "Press Unlock Access.", "A green tick confirms you are now a member." ] }, { "key": "leave-a-group", "title": "Leave a group", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press Leave Group at the top right.", "You leave at once. There is no confirmation step." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "member", "admin" ], "related": [ "requests-to-join", "group-hub", "members-and-roles", "groups" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nEvery group's page carries one button at the top right that handles joining and leaving.\n\nIts wording changes with the group and with where you stand. Reading the wording tells you what will happen when you press it.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe button reads one of five things.\n\nJoin Group means the group is open. Pressing it makes you a member straight away.\n\nApply to Join means the group reviews applications. Pressing it opens a form.\n\nRequest Pending means you have already applied. The button is greyed out while you wait.\n\nInvite Required means the group only takes people who arrive on an invite link.\n\nLeave Group means you are already a member.\n\nA group that asks for a password opens a small window for it as soon as a non-member lands on the page. The window is titled Access, followed by the group's name.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Join a group that lets anyone in. See Join an open group.\n- Apply to a group that reviews people first. See Apply to a group that reviews applications.\n- Get past a group password. See Unlock a group that asks for a password.\n- Stop being a member. See Leave a group.\n\n## How to\n\n### Join an open group\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press Join Group at the top right.\n3. You become a member at once. A note confirms you now have access.\n\n### Apply to a group that reviews applications\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press Apply to Join at the top right.\n3. Read the instructions the group wrote for applicants.\n4. Answer the questions. Required ones are marked with a star.\n5. Enter the group password if one is asked for.\n6. Press Submit application.\n7. The button changes to Request Pending. An admin will answer.\n\n### Unlock a group that asks for a password\n\n1. Open the group. A window opens asking for the password.\n2. Type the password.\n3. Press Unlock Access.\n4. A green tick confirms you are now a member.\n\nPress Cancel to close the window without joining.\n\n### Leave a group\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press Leave Group at the top right.\n3. You leave at once. There is no confirmation step.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nPressing Invite Required without an invite tells you an invite link is needed and opens nothing.\n\nAn application can ask you for a password, for free-text answers, for a choice from a list, or for a tick box, depending on what the admin set up.\n\nLeaving takes effect immediately and removes your access to the members-only tabs.\n\nYou can also join and leave from a group's card in Groups under Manage, without opening the group.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Requests to join explains what happens to your application.\n- A group's page explains the tabs you gain when you join.\n- Groups is where you find groups to join." }, { "slug": "listings", "title": "Listings", "summary": "What you provide, and what has come of it. Your offerings, your settled sales, your bookings, your open orders and your receipts.", "surface": "Manage > Listings", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I manage what I am selling?", "How do I create a listing?", "Where do I see my sales?", "Where do I see what somebody booked with me?", "What is the difference between a booking and an order?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "create-a-listing", "title": "Create a listing", "steps": [ "Open Listings under Manage.", "Find the My listings panel.", "Press New listing.", "Choose what kind of offering it is.", "Fill in the name, the description and the price.", "Save it. The page refreshes with your new listing on it." ] }, { "key": "see-your-sales", "title": "See your sales", "steps": [ "Open Listings under Manage.", "Find the Settled sales panel down the side.", "Read Settled sales for the totals over the window loaded.", "Read Recent settlements for the individual ones, each with its date and status." ] }, { "key": "see-your-bookings", "title": "See what people booked", "steps": [ "Open Listings under Manage.", "Find the Booked slots panel.", "Read Booked slots for what has been taken.", "Press Week on a listing in Bookable week to see that listing's grid." ] }, { "key": "find-a-receipt", "title": "Find a receipt", "steps": [ "Open Listings under Manage.", "Find the Receipts panel.", "Press View Receipt on the one you want.", "The receipt opens with its status, its date, its totals and its payment details." ] } ], "terms": [ "listing", "offering", "order", "receipt", "booking" ], "related": [ "marketplace", "wallet", "money", "gigs" ], "nav": [ "listings" ], "hubPages": [ "listings" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-18", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nListings is the seller's side. Marketplace is the buyer's side.\n\nThis page holds what you offer and everything that has happened to it.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Listings Hub. Above it sits a line about what you provide.\n\nThe page is panels you can rearrange, not tabs. Everything below is on screen at once, and you can move a panel, resize it, collapse it or hide it. A control reading New listing stays above them all, so it is there whatever you have hidden.\n\nMy listings holds what you provide. A strip of counts reads active, draft, sold and archived, and your listings sit below it grouped under headings reading Services, Products, Trades, Vouchers and Other. A small control switches the list between rows and cards.\n\nOrders to fulfil holds claims on your listings that carry no time slot, so they are the ones waiting on you to arrange something.\n\nBooked slots lists what people have booked with you, with when.\n\nBookable week draws the week grid for one of your listings at a time, so you can see and set when you are free.\n\nReceipts holds your receipts, each with a control that opens the full receipt.\n\nDown the side, Settled sales gives your gross, your fees and your net across the window loaded, and Recent settlements lists the individual ones.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Put something up for sale. See Create a listing.\n- Check what has sold. See See your sales.\n- Check what has been booked. See See what people booked.\n- Open a receipt. See Find a receipt.\n\n## How to\n\n### Create a listing\n\n1. Open Listings under Manage.\n2. Find the My listings panel.\n3. Press New listing.\n4. Choose what kind of offering it is.\n5. Fill in the name, the description and the price.\n6. Save it. The page refreshes with your new listing on it.\n\n### See your sales\n\n1. Open Listings under Manage.\n2. Find the Settled sales panel down the side.\n3. Read Settled sales for the totals over the window loaded.\n4. Read Recent settlements for the individual ones, each with its date and status.\n\nThese are your settlements as the seller. The buyer's side of the same money lives in Marketplace.\n\n### See what people booked\n\n1. Open Listings under Manage.\n2. Find the Booked slots panel.\n3. Read Booked slots for what has been taken.\n4. Press Week on a listing in Bookable week to see that listing's grid.\n\n### Find a receipt\n\n1. Open Listings under Manage.\n2. Find the Receipts panel.\n3. Press View Receipt on the one you want.\n4. The receipt opens with its status, its date, its totals and its payment details.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Listings.\n\nA claim with a time slot is a booking. A claim without one is an order. That is the only difference between the two tabs.\n\nIf you offer many listings, the Booked slots panel may say it is showing bookings for your most recent listings only.\n\nSelling a paid listing needs a Seller membership or higher. Without one, a window explains that and offers the plans.\n\nTaking card payments needs a payout account. Until you connect one, Wallet tells you so and points you at Settings.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Marketplace is the buyer's side of the same market.\n- Wallet is where a settled sale lands.\n- Money explains fees, payouts and receipts together." }, { "slug": "locale-hub", "title": "A place hub", "summary": "Each place you belong to has its own front page, with a local feed, a map of what is live, and the nested belonging of the place itself.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What is on my town's page?", "Where do I see posts from my neighbourhood?", "What watershed am I in?", "How do I see what is happening right now near me?", "Where do I see local listings and local good news?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "open-your-place", "title": "Open your place", "steps": [ "Look at My Places in the menu on the left.", "Press the place you want.", "Its own page opens." ] }, { "key": "read-the-local-feed", "title": "Read the local feed", "steps": [ "Open your place.", "Find the Local feed panel in the middle.", "Scroll inside the panel. More items load as you reach the bottom.", "Press an item to open it." ] }, { "key": "filter-the-local-feed", "title": "Narrow the local feed", "steps": [ "Find the Local feed panel.", "Press one of its six tabs: Posts, Events, Groups, People, Gigs or Mart.", "On the Posts tab, type a word in the search box to narrow it further.", "On the Posts tab, press one of the five kinds: All, Social, Offers, Requests or Gratitude." ] }, { "key": "read-where-this-is", "title": "See where a place sits", "steps": [ "Open your place.", "Find the Where this is panel in the left column.", "Read the chains. Each name is a link to that larger scope's own page.", "Press a name to open it." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "place hub", "bioregion", "feed", "panel" ], "related": [ "choosing-your-places", "switching-places", "global-hub", "feeds-and-views" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [ "place-hub" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA place hub is the front page of one place. A town, a basin, a watershed, a council.\n\nIt is the page that answers what is going on here, without you filtering anything.\n\nYou reach it from My Places in the menu on the left.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title is the place's name followed by the word Hub. Above it sits the line of places it belongs to.\n\nFor a watershed or an ecoregion the title is the scope's own name, and the line above reads what kind of scope it is and at what level.\n\nIf you are signed in you are greeted by name, with a pill asking what is happening in your neighbourhood.\n\nBeside the greeting sits a conditions card named after the place, holding the weather, the air quality and the moon. A place with no coordinates has no conditions card.\n\nThe narrow left column holds two panels.\n\nWhere this is draws the place's nested belonging. When the place is tied to named scopes, it draws up to four chains, labelled Political, Cultural bioregion, Watershed and Ecoregion, each name a link. Otherwise it draws one line of ancestors ending at Global. Beneath that sits a small grid of facts, labelled Altitude, Population, Members and Watershed, and then the coordinates.\n\nHigh activity listings shows the offerings drawing the most attention around here.\n\nThe wide middle column holds the Local feed. Its tabs read Posts, Events, Groups, People, Gigs and Mart.\n\nThe narrow right column holds three panels. Happening right now pins what is live nearby on a globe. Local ads shows promoted offerings from people and groups here. Local good news shows the gratitude and good news posted around here.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Open one of your places. See Open your place.\n- Read what people here are posting. See Read the local feed.\n- Show only events, only gigs or only offerings. See Narrow the local feed.\n- Learn the watershed, bioregion and region a place sits in. See See where a place sits.\n\n## How to\n\n### Open your place\n\n1. Look at My Places in the menu on the left.\n2. Press the place you want.\n3. Its own page opens.\n\n### Read the local feed\n\n1. Open your place.\n2. Find the Local feed panel in the middle.\n3. Scroll inside the panel. More items load as you reach the bottom.\n4. Press an item to open it.\n\n### Narrow the local feed\n\n1. Find the Local feed panel.\n2. Press one of its six tabs: Posts, Events, Groups, People, Gigs or Mart.\n3. On the Posts tab, type a word in the search box to narrow it further.\n4. On the Posts tab, press one of the five kinds: All, Social, Offers, Requests or Gratitude.\n\n### See where a place sits\n\n1. Open your place.\n2. Find the Where this is panel in the left column.\n3. Read the chains. Each name is a link to that larger scope's own page.\n4. Press a name to open it.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nAnyone can open a place hub, signed in or not. A signed-out visitor gets no greeting and no sharing pill.\n\nA place hub does not follow the pill in the top bar. It is the page for one place, so it always shows that place.\n\nOn this page the place switcher does two things. It records your choice and it takes you to the place you picked. Choosing All Locales takes you to the Global Hub.\n\nA scope's own page adds two more sections to Where this is, listing what the scope contains and which places sit inside it.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Choosing your places explains the pill in the top bar.\n- Global Hub is the same page at the widest scope.\n- Feeds and views explains why the feed scrolls inside its panel." }, { "slug": "making-things", "title": "Making things", "summary": "Everything new in Rivr is made on one page, and the place or group you started from is carried in for you.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I make something new?", "What is the difference between a post, an offering and a listing?", "How do I post to my neighbourhood without picking it every time?", "Where do I end up after I make something?", "What is a project for?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "start-from-the-plus", "title": "Start from the plus button", "steps": [ "Press the plus button in the bar at the top.", "The Create page opens on the Post tab.", "Press a different tab if you want something else.", "Fill the form in and save. You land on the thing you made." ] }, { "key": "start-from-a-place", "title": "Start from a place", "steps": [ "Open one of your places under My Places.", "Press the pill asking whether you have something to share today.", "The Create page opens with that place already chosen.", "Write your post and publish it. It goes to that place without you picking it again." ] }, { "key": "choose-what-to-make", "title": "Choose what to make", "steps": [ "Press the plus button in the bar at the top.", "Press Post to say something.", "Press Event for a gathering with a time.", "Press Project for work with jobs beneath it.", "Press Group for a set of people.", "Press Offering for something you provide." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "group", "project", "offering", "listing", "event", "visibility" ], "related": [ "builder", "who-can-see-what", "events", "listings" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nThere is one page where new things are made. The plus button in the bar at the top opens it, and so does Builder under Tools.\n\nIt has five tabs, one per kind of thing.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe heading reads Create. Five tabs: Post, Event, Project, Group and Offering.\n\nA post is something you say. It can be social, an offer, a request or gratitude.\n\nAn event is a gathering with a time and a place. People say whether they are going, and some events sell tickets.\n\nA project is a piece of work with jobs beneath it and a share of its group's money.\n\nA group is a set of people. It can be basic, an organization, a ring or a family.\n\nAn offering is something you provide. Choosing the Offering tab asks what kind: a skill, tools and materials, a product, a service, a trip, a ticket, a voucher, data, a grant round, a gift or a bounty.\n\nA sixth tab, Job, appears only when you arrive from a project.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Open the page from anywhere. See Start from the plus button.\n- Open it with a place already chosen. See Start from a place.\n- Pick the right tab. See Choose what to make.\n\n## How to\n\n### Start from the plus button\n\n1. Press the plus button in the bar at the top.\n2. The Create page opens on the Post tab.\n3. Press a different tab if you want something else.\n4. Fill the form in and save. You land on the thing you made.\n\n### Start from a place\n\n1. Open one of your places under My Places.\n2. Press the pill asking whether you have something to share today.\n3. The Create page opens with that place already chosen.\n4. Write your post and publish it. It goes to that place without you picking it again.\n\nThe same happens from a group. Starting from a group carries the group with you, and the event form arrives with post as a group already ticked.\n\n### Choose what to make\n\n1. Press the plus button in the bar at the top.\n2. Press Post to say something.\n3. Press Event for a gathering with a time.\n4. Press Project for work with jobs beneath it.\n5. Press Group for a set of people.\n6. Press Offering for something you provide.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to make anything.\n\nWhatever you make, you land on it. A post opens the post. An event opens the event. A project opens the project. A group opens the group. An offering opens it in the market.\n\nThe Post tab carries a Post as control, but only when you steward at least one group. Without one there is nothing to choose between.\n\nSelling a paid offering or a paid listing needs a Seller membership or higher. A paid ticketed event needs a Host membership or higher. Turning a basic group into an organization needs an Organization membership or higher. In each case a window explains what is needed.\n\nA private event never appears on a global, place or group feed. Only you and the people you invited can see it.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Builder is the full description of the create page.\n- Who can see what explains the visibility control on every form.\n- Listings is where an offering you made turns up afterwards." }, { "slug": "map", "title": "Map", "summary": "Every event, group, post and offering that carries a location, drawn on a globe you can filter, layer and walk through.", "surface": "Home > Map", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I see what is happening near me?", "How do I find events on a map?", "How do I turn on 3D buildings?", "What are the bioregion layers?", "Can I see the map in augmented reality?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "search-the-map", "title": "Search the map", "steps": [ "Press the search box above the globe.", "Type a place name.", "Press a result. The globe flies to it.", "Press the cross in the box to clear the search." ] }, { "key": "filter-the-map", "title": "Show only one kind of thing", "steps": [ "Find the row of five buttons above the globe.", "Press Events, Groups, Posts or Offerings.", "Press All to bring everything back." ] }, { "key": "turn-on-a-layer", "title": "Turn on a layer", "steps": [ "Find the row of layer buttons above the globe.", "Press Terrain for the shape of the land, or Buildings for buildings.", "Press Item Labels to name the pins, or Neighborhoods to draw the neighbourhood outlines.", "Press Timeframe to filter by when something is happening. Switching it off again clears that filter." ] }, { "key": "open-a-bioregion", "title": "Open a bioregion", "steps": [ "Press the fold-out marked Bioregions.", "Choose a bioregion grouping.", "Switch on the layer you want. Its outlines are drawn on the globe in colour.", "Press inside an outline. That bioregion's own page opens." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "bioregion" ], "related": [ "xr-earth", "portals-and-rooms", "physical-things", "explore", "finding-things", "locale-hub", "dashboard" ], "nav": [ "map" ], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nThe Map is the whole network drawn on a globe. Anything that carries a location sits on it.\n\nIt is one of the three ways to look at everything, alongside the Dashboard and Explore.\n\n## What you see\n\nA globe filling the page, with a strip of controls above it.\n\nA search box reading Search locations. A cross clears it.\n\nFive buttons that choose what is pinned: All, Events, Groups, Posts and Offerings.\n\nTwo buttons beside them, marked AR and XR. AR puts the map over your camera. XR opens XR Earth, the walkable version, on a phone or a headset. Pressing either one again returns you to the flat map.\n\nA row of layer buttons: Terrain, Buildings, Item Labels, Neighborhoods and Timeframe.\n\nA fold-out marked Bioregions, holding a choice of bioregion grouping and a row of coloured layers you can switch on one at a time.\n\nWhen nothing matches, the page says no locations were found matching your criteria.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Jump to a town, a street or a landmark. See Search the map.\n- Narrow the pins to one kind of thing. See Show only one kind of thing.\n- Add terrain, buildings, labels, neighbourhoods or a time filter. See Turn on a layer.\n- Open the page for a watershed, an ecoregion or a cultural bioregion. See Open a bioregion.\n\n## How to\n\n### Search the map\n\n1. Press the search box above the globe.\n2. Type a place name.\n3. Press a result. The globe flies to it.\n4. Press the cross in the box to clear the search.\n\n### Show only one kind of thing\n\n1. Find the row of five buttons above the globe.\n2. Press Events, Groups, Posts or Offerings.\n3. Press All to bring everything back.\n\nChoosing one of these also returns you to the flat map if you were in AR or XR.\n\n### Turn on a layer\n\n1. Find the row of layer buttons above the globe.\n2. Press Terrain for the shape of the land, or Buildings for buildings.\n3. Press Item Labels to name the pins, or Neighborhoods to draw the neighbourhood outlines.\n4. Press Timeframe to filter by when something is happening. Switching it off again clears that filter.\n\nTerrain and Buildings are unavailable on a deployment with no map data behind them. When they are, the buttons are greyed and say so when you hover them.\n\n### Open a bioregion\n\n1. Press the fold-out marked Bioregions.\n2. Choose a bioregion grouping.\n3. Switch on the layer you want. Its outlines are drawn on the globe in colour.\n4. Press inside an outline. That bioregion's own page opens.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nAnyone can open the Map, signed in or not.\n\nOn a phone the layer controls become single icons and the bioregion choices open in their own panel.\n\nA shared link that names a bioregion opens the globe already zoomed to it.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- XR Earth is this globe as a world you fly and walk through.\n- Portals and rooms and Physical things are the rings and the tagged things you meet on it.\n- Explore is the same world seen as pictures and as a graph.\n- A place hub carries a smaller map showing what is live nearby.\n- Finding things covers search, the map, notifications and saved together." }, { "slug": "marketplace", "title": "Marketplace", "summary": "What you can buy, what you saved, what you received, what you ordered and what you are still looking for.", "surface": "Manage > Marketplace", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I buy things?", "How do I buy a listing?", "How do I book a service?", "Where do I see what I ordered?", "How do I get a refund?", "How do I claim a voucher?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "browse-the-market", "title": "Browse the market", "steps": [ "Open Marketplace under Manage.", "Use the Browse panel, or open the wider market page.", "Type in the search box to narrow by name.", "Press a tag chip to narrow by tag, or All tags to clear it.", "Press a listing to open it." ] }, { "key": "buy-a-listing", "title": "Buy something", "steps": [ "Open the listing.", "Press the main button. On a product it reads Buy Now.", "Set the quantity under Purchase Details.", "Choose how to pay under Payment Method. The choices are a card, your Rivr wallet, or crypto.", "Read Order Summary. It lists the item, the platform fee when there is one, any sales tax, and the total.", "Press the button at the bottom to complete the purchase.", "You land on a page confirming the purchase, with the order number and the date." ] }, { "key": "book-a-service", "title": "Book a service", "steps": [ "Open the listing.", "Press the main button. On a service it reads Book Service, or Book Now when the listing has a bookable week.", "Pick a block in the week grid if there is one. The page confirms the block you chose.", "Set how many hours if the service is priced by the hour.", "Choose how to pay and complete the booking." ] }, { "key": "see-your-orders", "title": "See what you ordered", "steps": [ "Open Marketplace under Manage.", "Find the Ordered panel.", "Read the list. Each row carries the item, the seller and the date." ] }, { "key": "request-a-refund", "title": "Ask for a refund", "steps": [ "Open the receipt for the purchase.", "Scroll to the card headed Need a refund.", "Read what it says. A wallet purchase returns the amount, the fees and any sales tax to your wallet. A card purchase goes back through the card, and the seller is told.", "Press Request Refund.", "The card changes to say the refund was requested." ] } ], "terms": [ "listing", "offering", "order", "receipt", "voucher", "Thanks", "wallet" ], "related": [ "listings", "wallet", "money", "saved" ], "nav": [ "marketplace" ], "hubPages": [ "marketplace-hub" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-18", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nMarketplace is the buyer's side. Listings is the seller's side.\n\nPeople and groups put up products, services, vouchers, tickets, trips and more. You buy them with your wallet, with a card, or with crypto.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Marketplace Hub. Above it sits a line reading manage and procure.\n\nThe page is panels you can rearrange, not tabs. Your own side comes first, because this is a page under Manage.\n\nOrdered holds what you bought, with their receipts.\n\nReceived holds the gifts and bookings you accepted.\n\nSaved holds the ones you bookmarked. Saving something while you browse adds it here straight away.\n\nBrowse holds everything for sale that is visible to you, with a search box and a row of tag chips starting with All tags.\n\nDown the side, Still seeking holds your open requests.\n\nA listing's own page shows its title, what kind of thing it is, its price or the word Free, when it was listed, and where it is. A service with a schedule draws a bookable week. At the bottom sit three controls: Contact, Save and Share.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look through what is for sale. See Browse the market.\n- Buy something. See Buy something.\n- Book somebody's time. See Book a service.\n- Check what you bought. See See what you ordered.\n- Ask for your money back. See Ask for a refund.\n\n## How to\n\n### Browse the market\n\n1. Open Marketplace under Manage.\n2. Use the Browse panel, or open the wider market page.\n3. Type in the search box to narrow by name.\n4. Press a tag chip to narrow by tag, or All tags to clear it.\n5. Press a listing to open it.\n\n### Buy something\n\n1. Open the listing.\n2. Press the main button. On a product it reads Buy Now.\n3. Set the quantity under Purchase Details.\n4. Choose how to pay under Payment Method. The choices are a card, your Rivr wallet, or crypto.\n5. Read Order Summary. It lists the item, the platform fee when there is one, any sales tax, and the total.\n6. Press the button at the bottom to complete the purchase.\n7. You land on a page confirming the purchase, with the order number and the date.\n\n### Book a service\n\n1. Open the listing.\n2. Press the main button. On a service it reads Book Service, or Book Now when the listing has a bookable week.\n3. Pick a block in the week grid if there is one. The page confirms the block you chose.\n4. Set how many hours if the service is priced by the hour.\n5. Choose how to pay and complete the booking.\n\n### See what you ordered\n\n1. Open Marketplace under Manage.\n2. Find the Ordered panel.\n3. Read the list. Each row carries the item, the seller and the date.\n\nYour own profile also carries a purchases page, listing marketplace purchases, ticket purchases, membership dues, gifts and claims, and every wallet transaction.\n\n### Ask for a refund\n\n1. Open the receipt for the purchase.\n2. Scroll to the card headed Need a refund.\n3. Read what it says. A wallet purchase returns the amount, the fees and any sales tax to your wallet. A card purchase goes back through the card, and the seller is told.\n4. Press Request Refund.\n5. The card changes to say the refund was requested.\n\nThe refund card appears only on a completed purchase paid by card or by wallet.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to buy. A signed-out visitor pressing a buy button is asked to sign in first.\n\nA listing with no price is claimed rather than bought, and a note confirms it is yours.\n\nA voucher works differently. Claiming it holds the Thanks it is worth until you redeem it. The button reads Claim Voucher, then Redeem Voucher, then tells you it has been redeemed.\n\nCard payment is available only when the seller has set up an account for it. When they have not, the card option says so.\n\nThe wallet option is unavailable when your balance is below the total.\n\nThe buy button is disabled when a listing is sold out, or when a service needs a booking block you have not picked.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Listings is what you offer, as opposed to what you buy.\n- Wallet holds the money you pay with and the receipts you get back.\n- Money explains fees, payouts and refunds together." }, { "slug": "members-and-roles", "title": "Members and roles", "summary": "Who belongs to a group, who steers it, and what each of them can do that the others cannot.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Who is in this group?", "How do I make somebody an admin?", "What can an admin do that I cannot?", "Who founded this group?", "What is a board member?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "see-the-members", "title": "See who is in a group", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press the Members tab.", "Read the count above the list.", "Press a person to open their profile." ] }, { "key": "promote-a-member", "title": "Make somebody an admin", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press the Members tab.", "Find the admin panel beneath the list. It appears only if you are already an admin.", "Find the person and promote them." ] }, { "key": "see-the-leadership", "title": "See who leads a group", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Stay on the About tab.", "Read the card headed Leadership. The founder is named first, then a badge for each admin." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "admin", "member", "stake" ], "related": [ "group-hub", "joining-and-leaving", "requests-to-join", "who-can-see-what" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA group has members. Some of its members are admins.\n\nBeing an admin is what unlocks the settings, the treasury, the job board's posting controls and the subgroup tree's create button.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe Members tab lists everyone in the group, with the count above them.\n\nIf you are an admin, a second panel appears beneath the list for promoting and demoting people.\n\nThe About tab carries a card headed Leadership. It names the founder, and shows one badge for each admin. When no founder is recorded it says so.\n\nThe About tab also carries a card headed Group Stats, with lines counting members, posts, events and what the group holds.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Read the membership. See See who is in a group.\n- Give somebody the admin controls. See Make somebody an admin.\n- Find out who runs the group. See See who leads a group.\n\n## How to\n\n### See who is in a group\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press the Members tab.\n3. Read the count above the list.\n4. Press a person to open their profile.\n\n### Make somebody an admin\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press the Members tab.\n3. Find the admin panel beneath the list. It appears only if you are already an admin.\n4. Find the person and promote them.\n\n### See who leads a group\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Stay on the About tab.\n3. Read the card headed Leadership. The founder is named first, then a badge for each admin.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nA member can read the members-only tabs, post in the feed, add a listing to the group's market, and use the group's chat.\n\nAn admin can do all of that plus open Group Settings, open the Treasury tab, manage membership plans, create a subgroup, add a relationship, post a job, promote and demote members, moderate posts in the feed, and switch the documents view to its filesystem.\n\nAllocating profit shares on the Stake tab is open to admins and to the group's board members.\n\nCreating an event, and editing the Needs list under Stock, are open to admins and, when the group allows members to post, to members.\n\nSomebody who is not a member sees only the tabs an admin left public, and never the Treasury tab.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Joining and leaving explains how you become a member.\n- Requests to join explains what an admin does with an application.\n- Who can see what explains visibility across the whole hub." }, { "slug": "messages", "title": "Messages", "summary": "Every conversation you are in, sorted into groups, people, projects and events.", "surface": "Manage > Messages", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where are my messages?", "How do I start a conversation?", "How do I make a group chat?", "Where is my group's chat room?", "Why can I not post in this room?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "read-a-conversation", "title": "Read a conversation", "steps": [ "Open Messages under Manage.", "Press the tab you want: Groups, People, Projects or Events.", "Press a row. Its threads open.", "Press a thread. The conversation opens on the right." ] }, { "key": "start-a-conversation", "title": "Start a conversation", "steps": [ "Open Messages under Manage.", "Press the pencil at the top.", "Type at least two letters of somebody's name.", "Press the person from the results.", "Send it. The conversation opens." ] }, { "key": "start-a-group-chat", "title": "Start a group chat", "steps": [ "Open Messages under Manage.", "Press the pencil at the top.", "Search and press two or more people. Each becomes a small chip you can remove.", "Send it. A group chat is made instead of a one-to-one conversation." ] }, { "key": "open-a-group-room", "title": "Open a group's room", "steps": [ "Open the group's page.", "Press Chat at the top right. It appears only for members.", "Messages opens with the group's room ready." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "project", "event", "thread" ], "related": [ "people", "group-hub", "broadcast", "notifications" ], "nav": [ "messages" ], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nMessages holds every conversation you are part of.\n\nSome are between you and one person. Some are rooms belonging to a group, a project or an event.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe heading reads Messages.\n\nFour tabs run across the top: Groups, People, Projects and Events. Groups is where you start. A dot on a tab means something in it is unread.\n\nIf you have connected a bridged network, one more tab appears for it.\n\nEach tab has its own line when it is empty. Groups says to join a group to chat with it. People says to start one with the pencil above. Projects says projects you are part of get a room. Events says to say you are going to an event to join its thread.\n\nPressing a group or a person opens their threads. The list of everything slides away into a strip of pictures, and that one entity's conversations slide in, with the main one first. A row at the top takes you back.\n\nThe pane on the right holds the conversation. Before you choose one it tells you to pick a conversation to read it here.\n\nAt the bottom of an open conversation sits a box to write in. Pressing Enter sends. Holding Shift and pressing Enter starts a new line.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Open and read a thread. See Read a conversation.\n- Write to one person. See Start a conversation.\n- Write to several people at once. See Start a group chat.\n- Go to a group's room. See Open a group's room.\n\n## How to\n\n### Read a conversation\n\n1. Open Messages under Manage.\n2. Press the tab you want: Groups, People, Projects or Events.\n3. Press a row. Its threads open.\n4. Press a thread. The conversation opens on the right.\n\n### Start a conversation\n\n1. Open Messages under Manage.\n2. Press the pencil at the top.\n3. Type at least two letters of somebody's name.\n4. Press the person from the results.\n5. Send it. The conversation opens.\n\n### Start a group chat\n\n1. Open Messages under Manage.\n2. Press the pencil at the top.\n3. Search and press two or more people. Each becomes a small chip you can remove.\n4. Send it. A group chat is made instead of a one-to-one conversation.\n\n### Open a group's room\n\n1. Open the group's page.\n2. Press Chat at the top right. It appears only for members.\n3. Messages opens with the group's room ready.\n\nIf nothing opens, the group has not switched its room on. An admin does that under Group Settings, on the Chat tab.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Messages.\n\nThe list refreshes itself while you have it open, and stops while the tab is in the background.\n\nIn a room you do not belong to, the writing box says you cannot post here, and the pane explains that you are not a member of the room.\n\nOn a phone an open conversation fills the screen, with a control to go back to the list.\n\nOlder links that point straight at one person or one room still work. They open Messages with that thread already chosen.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- People is where the Message button on a person's row sends you.\n- A group's page carries the Chat button.\n- Broadcast is for writing to a whole membership rather than a thread." }, { "slug": "money", "title": "Money", "summary": "Your wallet, getting paid, the orders you placed and received, your receipts, your payouts, and how a group's money differs from yours.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How does money work in Rivr?", "How do I get paid?", "Where are my receipts?", "What is Thanks?", "What is the difference between my wallet and a group treasury?", "How do I get a refund?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "see-what-you-have", "title": "See what you have", "steps": [ "Open Wallet under Manage.", "Read the three tiles at the top.", "Read Wallets below them for one row per wallet.", "Read This window for what went in and out over the transactions loaded." ] }, { "key": "get-set-up-to-be-paid", "title": "Get set up to be paid", "steps": [ "Open your profile.", "Find the Wallet panel.", "Press Set Up Payout Account.", "Give the payment provider what it asks for.", "Come back. The panel now shows whether charges, payouts and details are in order.", "Fill in your tax details from Support if your payout needs them." ] }, { "key": "find-a-receipt-here", "title": "Find a receipt", "steps": [ "Open Marketplace under Manage and press the Ordered tab, or open your profile's purchases page.", "Find the purchase.", "Press View receipt.", "The receipt opens with its totals, its status and its payment details." ] }, { "key": "ask-for-money-back", "title": "Ask for your money back", "steps": [ "Open the receipt.", "Find the card headed Need a refund. It appears only on a completed purchase paid by card or by wallet.", "Read what it says. A wallet purchase returns the amount, the fees and any sales tax to your wallet. A card purchase goes back through the card and the seller is told.", "Press Request Refund.", "The card changes to say the refund was requested." ] } ], "terms": [ "wallet", "treasury", "payout", "receipt", "order", "Thanks", "points", "stake", "voucher" ], "related": [ "wallet", "marketplace", "listings", "group-treasury" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nRivr moves several different things that all feel like money.\n\nOrdinary money, held in your wallet or in a connected account. Thanks, which is a token people give each other. Points, which record contribution. Vouchers, which hold Thanks until they are redeemed. And profit shares, which some groups allocate from their own figures.\n\nThis page is the map of all of it.\n\n## What you see\n\nYour Wallet gathers the money side. Three tiles across the top of it read Rivr, Integrated and Crypto. The Rivr tile counts your Thanks. The Integrated tile shows money. The Crypto tile counts the addresses you have linked.\n\nYour profile carries a Wallet panel with the same balances, four sub-tabs reading Transactions, Purchases, Sales and Taxes, and the controls for adding money, sending money and taking a payout.\n\nMoney you spent appears under Marketplace, on the Ordered tab, and on your profile's purchases page.\n\nMoney you earned appears under Listings, on the Sales tab, and under Wallet, on the Sales tab.\n\nA receipt is a page of its own. It lists the status, the date, the booked window when there is one, the subtotal, the fees, any sales tax and the total.\n\nA group's money is a different pocket entirely, behind the Treasury tab on that group's page, and only its admins can open it.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look at your balances. See See what you have.\n- Get ready to receive money. See Get set up to be paid.\n- Open the record of a purchase. See Find a receipt.\n- Ask a seller to return it. See Ask for your money back.\n\n## How to\n\n### See what you have\n\n1. Open Wallet under Manage.\n2. Read the three tiles at the top.\n3. Read Wallets below them for one row per wallet.\n4. Read This window for what went in and out over the transactions loaded.\n\n### Get set up to be paid\n\n1. Open your profile.\n2. Find the Wallet panel.\n3. Press Set Up Payout Account.\n4. Give the payment provider what it asks for.\n5. Come back. The panel now shows whether charges, payouts and details are in order.\n6. Fill in your tax details from Support if your payout needs them.\n\n### Find a receipt\n\n1. Open Marketplace under Manage and press the Ordered tab, or open your profile's purchases page.\n2. Find the purchase.\n3. Press View receipt.\n4. The receipt opens with its totals, its status and its payment details.\n\nYour own sales have receipts too. They sit under Listings, on the Receipts tab.\n\n### Ask for your money back\n\n1. Open the receipt.\n2. Find the card headed Need a refund. It appears only on a completed purchase paid by card or by wallet.\n3. Read what it says. A wallet purchase returns the amount, the fees and any sales tax to your wallet. A card purchase goes back through the card and the seller is told.\n4. Press Request Refund.\n5. The card changes to say the refund was requested.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to have a wallet at all. A wallet is created for you on your first transaction.\n\nSelling with a card needs a Seller membership or higher and a connected payout account.\n\nWhen you buy, the order summary lists the platform fee and any sales tax as amounts before you pay. Rivr prints those amounts rather than a rate.\n\nThere are two payout routes out of a connected account. One goes to your bank over a few days. The other is instant, and is offered only when your account supports it.\n\nMoney held back from a sale can be released early, and the control says what releasing early costs before you press it.\n\nA volunteer job pays in a Thanks voucher rather than cash.\n\nA group's treasury is not your money. It belongs to the group, its balance is separate, and only the group's admins can see or move it.\n\nA group's profit-share percentages are set by that group from its own contribution figures. They are not a Rivr-wide rule.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Wallet is the page your own money lives on.\n- Marketplace is what you bought, and Listings is what you sold.\n- A group's treasury is the group's money." }, { "slug": "notifications", "title": "Notifications", "summary": "The bell in the top bar, the page behind it, and the two switches that decide what reaches your inbox.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where are my notifications?", "How do I mark everything as read?", "How do I stop getting emails?", "Why is there a dot on the bell?", "Where do I see who followed me?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "read-notifications", "title": "Read your notifications", "steps": [ "Press the bell in the bar at the top.", "Press a tab to narrow the list. Following holds follows. Reactions holds reactions. Comments holds comments.", "Press a card to open what it is about. It is marked read as you go." ] }, { "key": "mark-all-read", "title": "Mark them all read", "steps": [ "Press the bell in the bar at the top.", "Press the tab you want to clear.", "Press Mark all as read at the bottom." ] }, { "key": "turn-off-email", "title": "Turn off email notifications", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Notifications tab.", "Switch Email Notifications off." ] } ], "terms": [ "notification", "feed" ], "related": [ "settings", "messages", "dashboard", "finding-things" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA notification tells you somebody did something that involves you. A reaction, a comment, a follow.\n\nThey gather on one page, reached from the bell in the bar at the top.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe bell carries a dot when something is unread.\n\nThe page is headed Notifications. Five tabs run across it: All, Unread, Following, Reactions and Comments. All is where you land.\n\nEach card shows the person's picture, their name, what they did, a short piece of what they wrote when there is one, and how long ago. The most recent say so in words, then they count in minutes, then in hours, then in days, and then show a date.\n\nAn unread card carries a dot and a coloured edge.\n\nEach card carries a control that toggles between Mark read and Mark unread.\n\nA button at the bottom reads Mark all as read. It appears only when the tab you are on has something in it.\n\nWhen a tab is empty, the page says there are no notifications in this view.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- See what happened. See Read your notifications.\n- Clear the list. See Mark them all read.\n- Stop them reaching your inbox. See Turn off email notifications.\n\n## How to\n\n### Read your notifications\n\n1. Press the bell in the bar at the top.\n2. Press a tab to narrow the list. Following holds follows. Reactions holds reactions. Comments holds comments.\n3. Press a card to open what it is about. It is marked read as you go.\n\n### Mark them all read\n\n1. Press the bell in the bar at the top.\n2. Press the tab you want to clear.\n3. Press Mark all as read at the bottom.\n\nThis clears only what the tab you are on is showing, not everything.\n\n### Turn off email notifications\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Notifications tab.\n3. Switch Email Notifications off.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to have notifications.\n\nSettings offers exactly two switches. Email Notifications, and Publish to Murmurations, which lists your profile in a public directory of regenerative projects. There is no per-kind switch.\n\nUnread messages are counted separately, on the envelope beside the bell.\n\nThe Recent activity panel on the Dashboard shows the same notifications, so you can answer them without leaving home.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Settings holds the two switches.\n- Messages counts its unread separately, on its own icon.\n- Dashboard carries the same notifications in a panel." }, { "slug": "organization-tree", "title": "The organization tree", "summary": "Groups nest inside groups, and the Groups tab on a group's page shows the ones beneath it and the ones alongside it.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do groups nest inside each other?", "Where do I see a group's subgroups?", "What is an affiliated group?", "How do I create a subgroup?", "Why can I not see the subgroup list?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "read-the-tree", "title": "Read a group's tree", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Read the trail under its name. Those are its parents, root first.", "Press the Groups tab.", "Read Subgroups for the groups beneath it, and Affiliated groups for the groups alongside it." ] }, { "key": "create-a-subgroup", "title": "Create a subgroup", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press the Groups tab.", "Press Create Subgroup on the Subgroups card. It appears only for admins and the group's creator.", "Fill in Subgroup Name and Description.", "Press Create Subgroup." ] }, { "key": "add-a-relationship", "title": "Add a relationship to another group", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Stay on the About tab and scroll to the card headed Group Relationships. It appears only for admins.", "Press Add Relationship.", "Choose the kind of tie: Affiliate, Partner, Coalition or Subgroup.", "Choose the other group and save." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "subgroup", "project" ], "related": [ "group-hub", "subgroups-and-projects", "members-and-roles", "groups" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nGroups nest. An organization can hold subgroups, and a subgroup can hold subgroups of its own.\n\nGroups can also stand alongside each other without nesting. Those are relationships, not parents.\n\nThe Groups tab on a group's page shows both.\n\n## What you see\n\nUnder the group's name at the top of the page, a trail of its parents runs left to right, root first, each one a link, ending in the group you are on. A group with no parent has no trail.\n\nThe Groups tab holds two cards.\n\nSubgroups lists each child group with its picture, its name and its member count. When there are none it says so, and an admin is told they can create one.\n\nAffiliated groups lists the groups tied to this one without nesting, each with its picture, its name, the kind of tie, and its member count. When there are none, the card is not drawn at all.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Read a group's parents, children and neighbours. See Read a group's tree.\n- Add a group beneath this one. See Create a subgroup.\n- Tie this group to another one sideways. See Add a relationship to another group.\n\n## How to\n\n### Read a group's tree\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Read the trail under its name. Those are its parents, root first.\n3. Press the Groups tab.\n4. Read Subgroups for the groups beneath it, and Affiliated groups for the groups alongside it.\n\n### Create a subgroup\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press the Groups tab.\n3. Press Create Subgroup on the Subgroups card. It appears only for admins and the group's creator.\n4. Fill in Subgroup Name and Description.\n5. Press Create Subgroup.\n\nWhen the parent is an organization, the dialog tells you the new subgroup keeps the organization tab set.\n\n### Add a relationship to another group\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Stay on the About tab and scroll to the card headed Group Relationships. It appears only for admins.\n3. Press Add Relationship.\n4. Choose the kind of tie: Affiliate, Partner, Coalition or Subgroup.\n5. Choose the other group and save.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nThe Groups tab is set to members only by default, so someone who has not joined usually does not see the tree at all.\n\nCreate Subgroup appears only for a group's admins and its creator.\n\nGroup Relationships appears only for admins.\n\nEconomic share-class subgroups are deliberately left out of this list. They appear on the Stake tab instead.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- A group's page explains the rest of the tabs.\n- Subgroups and projects explains what a subgroup and a project each hold.\n- Groups is where you find a group in the first place." }, { "slug": "people", "title": "People", "summary": "Your network sorted into friends, clients, colleagues and people you may know, with a message and a connect on every row.", "surface": "Manage > People", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I see my connections?", "How do I connect with someone?", "How do I message someone?", "Who are my clients?", "How do I browse everybody on Rivr?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "browse-your-network", "title": "Browse your network", "steps": [ "Open People under Manage.", "Press one of the four groupings in the left column.", "Read the list in the middle.", "Press a name to open that person's profile." ] }, { "key": "connect-with-someone", "title": "Connect with somebody", "steps": [ "Open People under Manage.", "Find the person.", "Press Connect on their row. The button changes to Connected." ] }, { "key": "message-someone", "title": "Message somebody", "steps": [ "Open People under Manage.", "Find the person.", "Press Message on their row.", "Messages opens with that conversation ready." ] }, { "key": "browse-everyone", "title": "Browse everybody", "steps": [ "Open People under Manage.", "Press Browse everyone at the top.", "A flat list of everybody opens, each with their picture, name and stated location.", "Press a name to open their profile." ] } ], "terms": [ "member", "place", "panel" ], "related": [ "messages", "profile", "explore", "finding-things" ], "nav": [ "people" ], "hubPages": [ "people-hub" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nPeople is your network. Somebody appears here only because there is a real tie between you and them.\n\nThe whole directory of everybody on this deployment is a separate list, reached from a button on this page.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads People. Above it sits the place you are viewing in, or a line naming the four groupings.\n\nA button reading Browse everyone sits at the top right of the middle column.\n\nThe narrow left column holds Your network, one row per grouping with a count beside it.\n\nThere are exactly four groupings.\n\nFriends are people you are connected with.\n\nClients are people who have bought from you or booked you.\n\nColleagues are people you share a project or a job with.\n\nYou may know are people in your groups and places you have not connected with yet.\n\nSomebody sits in one grouping only, in that order of priority.\n\nThe wide middle column is titled after whichever grouping you chose, with its description beneath and its size beside it. A view control switches the list between rows, cards and pictures.\n\nEach row carries the person's picture, their name, a Message button and a Connect button.\n\nThe narrow right column holds a conditions card.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look through the people you already have a tie to. See Browse your network.\n- Add somebody to your connections. See Connect with somebody.\n- Start a conversation. See Message somebody.\n- Look at everybody, tie or no tie. See Browse everybody.\n\n## How to\n\n### Browse your network\n\n1. Open People under Manage.\n2. Press one of the four groupings in the left column.\n3. Read the list in the middle.\n4. Press a name to open that person's profile.\n\n### Connect with somebody\n\n1. Open People under Manage.\n2. Find the person.\n3. Press Connect on their row. The button changes to Connected.\n\nThe Connect button is not drawn in the Friends grouping, because you are already connected there.\n\n### Message somebody\n\n1. Open People under Manage.\n2. Find the person.\n3. Press Message on their row.\n4. Messages opens with that conversation ready.\n\n### Browse everybody\n\n1. Open People under Manage.\n2. Press Browse everyone at the top.\n3. A flat list of everybody opens, each with their picture, name and stated location.\n4. Press a name to open their profile.\n\nThe full directory has no filters and no buttons on its rows.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to see your own network. A signed-out visitor is told to sign in.\n\nThe page opens on the first grouping that actually has somebody in it.\n\nChoosing a place in the pill at the top narrows your network to people who share that place.\n\nThe counts in the left column cover the whole grouping, not what is on screen.\n\nSomebody with no stated location shows no location. Nothing is guessed for them.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Messages is where a conversation carries on.\n- Profile is what opens when you press a name.\n- Explore draws the same network as a graph." }, { "slug": "physical-things", "title": "Physical things", "summary": "A real object with a tag on it has a page, a place on the map, and a record of where it was last seen; scan the tag and it answers.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I find a thing by its tag?", "How do I register a tag?", "What does the seen label on a marker mean?", "How do I say a thing is here?", "Who can see a thing I registered?", "Who can move a thing on the map?", "Which tags work?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "scan-a-tag", "title": "Scan a tag", "steps": [ "Open the XR menu in XR Earth and choose Scan a thing. A thing's own page also carries the link.", "Press Read NFC and hold the phone against the sticker, or press Scan QR and point the camera at the code.", "If neither works on your phone, choose the tag type, type the tag, and press Look up.", "The thing's card opens." ] }, { "key": "register-a-thing", "title": "Register a thing", "steps": [ "Scan a tag nobody has registered.", "Type a name for the thing.", "Under Who sees it, choose Everyone, or one of your groups.", "Press Register here. The thing is placed where your phone is." ] }, { "key": "say-a-thing-is-here", "title": "Say a thing is here", "steps": [ "Scan the thing's tag, or open its page.", "Tick the box agreeing to record your phone's location on the thing's record.", "Press It's here. The thing moves to where you are standing, and the sighting is kept with your name for an hour." ] }, { "key": "find-a-thing-in-xr", "title": "Find a thing in XR Earth", "steps": [ "Open XR Earth.", "Turn a palm up and choose Things.", "Walk or fly to a teal coin. Its label says when it was last seen.", "Press it to open its card, then Open to read its page." ] } ], "terms": [ "thing", "tag", "sighting", "visibility", "group" ], "related": [ "xr-earth", "map", "who-can-see-what", "making-things" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA physical thing is a real object that Rivr knows about: a kettle, a tool, a bicycle, a crate. It carries a tag, and the tag is how it is recognised.\n\nThree kinds of tag work today. An NFC sticker read by a phone. A QR code read by the camera. Or the tag's own number, typed in.\n\nEvery thing has a page, a spot on the map where it was last seen, and a list of sightings: who saw it where, and when.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe Scan page carries two buttons, Read NFC and Scan QR, and a box where you can type a tag instead.\n\nA tag that belongs to a thing opens a card naming it, saying when it was last seen, and offering the buttons It's here, Open and See in XR.\n\nA tag that belongs to nothing yet offers to register it: a box for the name, a choice of who sees it, and a button reading Register here.\n\nA thing's page lists its tags, where and when it was last seen, who can see it, and anything it reports.\n\nOn the Map and in XR Earth a thing is a teal coin with a tag drawn on it. Above it hangs its name and how long ago it was seen. The palm menu shows things under Things.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Read a tag and open what it belongs to. See Scan a tag.\n- Give a new tag a name and a place. See Register a thing.\n- Record that a thing is where you are standing. See Say a thing is here.\n- Walk to a thing in the world. See Find a thing in XR Earth.\n\n## How to\n\n### Scan a tag\n\n1. Open the XR menu in XR Earth and choose Scan a thing. A thing's own page also carries the link.\n2. Press Read NFC and hold the phone against the sticker, or press Scan QR and point the camera at the code.\n3. If neither works on your phone, choose the tag type, type the tag, and press Look up.\n4. The thing's card opens.\n\n### Register a thing\n\n1. Scan a tag nobody has registered.\n2. Type a name for the thing.\n3. Under Who sees it, choose Everyone, or one of your groups.\n4. Press Register here. The thing is placed where your phone is.\n\n### Say a thing is here\n\n1. Scan the thing's tag, or open its page.\n2. Tick the box agreeing to record your phone's location on the thing's record.\n3. Press It's here. The thing moves to where you are standing, and the sighting is kept with your name for an hour.\n\n### Find a thing in XR Earth\n\n1. Open XR Earth.\n2. Turn a palm up and choose Things.\n3. Walk or fly to a teal coin. Its label says when it was last seen.\n4. Press it to open its card, then Open to read its page.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nReading NFC works on Android phones in Chrome. Other phones scan the QR code or type the tag.\n\nA thing registered for everyone is public. A thing registered for a group is seen only by that group's members, and appears in XR Earth only with that group as the channel.\n\nAnyone who can see a thing can open its page. Only the people who can change it, its owner and the group's admins, can say it is here and move it on the map.\n\nA sighting names you for one hour. After that the thing keeps its place and the time, and your name is no longer shown with it.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- XR Earth is where things stand and the palm menu filters them.\n- The Map shows the same coins on the flat globe.\n- Who can see what covers the visibility choices a thing shares with everything else.\n- Making things covers posting a 3D object at a spot, which is a different thing from a real one with a tag." }, { "slug": "portals-and-rooms", "title": "Portals and rooms", "summary": "A portal is a ring standing at a place in XR Earth; walk through it and you are in a room another instance of Rivr hosts.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What is the ring I can see on the map?", "How do I enter a portal?", "How do I get back out of a room?", "Who can see my portal?", "Who can enter my room?", "What does the other instance learn about me when I enter?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "enter-a-portal", "title": "Enter a portal", "steps": [ "In XR Earth, walk into the ring, or press it and then press Enter.", "If you are signed in, your home instance vouches for you to the instance hosting the room.", "You are standing at the room's arrival spot." ] }, { "key": "leave-a-room", "title": "Leave a room", "steps": [ "Walk into the room's own ring, the one outside its doorway.", "Or press Leave at the bottom of the screen.", "You are standing in front of the portal you came through." ] }, { "key": "decide-who-may-enter", "title": "Decide who may enter your room", "steps": [ "Open the room's own page on the instance that hosts it.", "Set its visibility the way you set any other thing's visibility. Public lets anyone in, including guests who are not signed in.", "Name the groups or people who may see it. Only they can enter, and each must be signed in so their home instance can vouch for them." ] } ], "terms": [ "portal", "room", "instance", "visibility", "group" ], "related": [ "xr-earth", "instances-of-rivr", "who-can-see-what", "your-account-across-places" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA portal is a door. It stands at a real place on the planet, and it leads into a room.\n\nThe room is not on the same instance as the portal. Somebody's own instance of Rivr hosts it, the way it hosts their profile. Their room, on their computer.\n\nStepping through is instant. There is no flight and no loading screen you are asked to wait on. You stand in the room, facing its table.\n\n## What you see\n\nOn the Map and in XR Earth a portal is a violet ring standing on its edge, tall enough to walk through, with a faint pane across it.\n\nPressing it opens its card. The card names the room and carries a button reading Enter, followed by the room's name.\n\nInside a room, the strip at the top names the room and says whether it admitted you by name or as a guest, and how many others are there. A button reading Leave, followed by the room's name, sits at the bottom.\n\nA room has its own ring, usually outside its doorway. That ring leads back out.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Step through a ring. See Enter a portal.\n- Come back to where the portal stands. See Leave a room.\n- Choose who is let into a room you host. See Decide who may enter your room.\n\n## How to\n\n### Enter a portal\n\n1. In XR Earth, walk into the ring, or press it and then press Enter.\n2. If you are signed in, your home instance vouches for you to the instance hosting the room.\n3. You are standing at the room's arrival spot.\n\n### Leave a room\n\n1. Walk into the room's own ring, the one outside its doorway.\n2. Or press Leave at the bottom of the screen.\n3. You are standing in front of the portal you came through.\n\n### Decide who may enter your room\n\n1. Open the room's own page on the instance that hosts it.\n2. Set its visibility the way you set any other thing's visibility. Public lets anyone in, including guests who are not signed in.\n3. Name the groups or people who may see it. Only they can enter, and each must be signed in so their home instance can vouch for them.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nWho can see a portal follows the portal's own visibility, exactly like a post. A portal that belongs to a group appears only when that group is your channel, or in the public world if the group made it public.\n\nWho can enter a room follows the room's visibility on the instance hosting it. If you are not signed in you are a guest, and a guest only enters a public room.\n\nWhen you enter as yourself, the hosting instance receives a short, signed note from your home instance: your name, your avatar, and your permission for it to show you there for one hour. It answers with a receipt. Nothing else about you travels.\n\nWhile you are in a room, buildings are hidden so the room is not cut through by them.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- XR Earth is where portals stand.\n- Instances of Rivr explains the instances that host rooms.\n- Who can see what covers the visibility settings a room and a portal share with everything else.\n- Your account across places explains how one instance vouches for you to another." }, { "slug": "profile", "title": "Profile", "summary": "Your own page in Rivr, holding who you are, what you offer, what you are going to, and the parts only you can see.", "surface": "Manage > Profile", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where is my profile?", "How do I edit my profile?", "What can other people see on my profile?", "What is a persona?", "Where do I see my membership?", "How do I hide a part of my profile?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "open-your-profile", "title": "Open your profile", "steps": [ "Press Profile under Manage.", "Your page opens." ] }, { "key": "edit-your-profile", "title": "Edit your profile", "steps": [ "Open your profile.", "Press Edit Profile at the top.", "Settings opens on the Account tab.", "Change your Name, Username, Tagline, Bio, Skills, photos and readings.", "Press Save Changes at the bottom." ] }, { "key": "hide-a-profile-tab", "title": "Hide part of your profile", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Privacy tab.", "Find the card headed Profile Tab Visibility.", "Set each part to Public, Connections, Only Me or Hidden.", "Save." ] }, { "key": "create-a-persona", "title": "Create a persona", "steps": [ "Open your profile.", "Find the Manage personas panel.", "Press the control that opens Create Persona.", "Fill in the name, and a handle and a description if you want them.", "Press Create." ] } ], "terms": [ "persona", "membership", "visibility", "Thanks", "panel" ], "related": [ "settings", "who-can-see-what", "people", "wallet" ], "nav": [ "profile" ], "hubPages": [ "profile" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nYour profile is your page. It holds your name, your picture, your bio, your skills, the languages you speak and the places you belong to.\n\nSomebody else's profile holds the same things, minus the parts that are yours alone.\n\n## What you see\n\nAt the top, a cover image, your picture, your name and your handle. Your own profile carries an Edit Profile button and controls for changing the cover image and the picture. Somebody else's carries a Give button, a Message button and a moderation menu.\n\nThe narrow left column holds About, Skills and expertise, Languages, and Relationships.\n\nThe wide middle column holds Upcoming events, Recent posts, Thanks received, Groups and Offerings.\n\nThe narrow right column holds Quick stats, Links and Personas.\n\nYour own profile adds seven more panels to the middle column that nobody else sees: Manage personas, Membership, Calendar, Wallet, Docs, Saved and Activity.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\nPersonas in the right column is a reading card. It lists whichever of these you have filled in: Gene Keys, Human Design, Western Astrology, Vedic Astrology, OCEAN, Myers-Briggs and Enneagram.\n\nManage personas in the middle column is something different. It is where you create the alternate identities you can post under.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Open your own page. See Open your profile.\n- Change what is on it. See Edit your profile.\n- Keep part of it to yourself. See Hide part of your profile.\n- Make an identity you can post under. See Create a persona.\n\n## How to\n\n### Open your profile\n\n1. Press Profile under Manage.\n2. Your page opens.\n\nYou can also press your picture in the bar at the top and choose your profile from the menu.\n\n### Edit your profile\n\n1. Open your profile.\n2. Press Edit Profile at the top.\n3. Settings opens on the Account tab.\n4. Change your Name, Username, Tagline, Bio, Skills, photos and readings.\n5. Press Save Changes at the bottom.\n\n### Hide part of your profile\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Privacy tab.\n3. Find the card headed Profile Tab Visibility.\n4. Set each part to Public, Connections, Only Me or Hidden.\n5. Save.\n\nThe parts you can set are About, Posts, Thanks, Events, Groups, Photos and Offerings. Every one of them starts Public.\n\n### Create a persona\n\n1. Open your profile.\n2. Find the Manage personas panel.\n3. Press the control that opens Create Persona.\n4. Fill in the name, and a handle and a description if you want them.\n5. Press Create.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nOnly you see Manage personas, Membership, Calendar, Wallet, Docs, Saved and Activity. They are not hidden from others by a setting. They are not drawn at all.\n\nGive and the moderation menu do not appear on your own profile.\n\nIf you are looking at a persona rather than a person, a small chip beside the name says so.\n\nEvery part of your profile starts Public. You opt into restriction, never out of it by accident.\n\nIf your account is homed on another instance, opening your profile takes you there.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Settings is where every field on your profile is edited.\n- Who can see what explains the visibility choices across the hub.\n- People is the network your Relationships panel draws from." }, { "slug": "requests-to-join", "title": "Requests to join", "summary": "Where your own pending applications sit, and where an admin answers the applications a group has received.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I see the groups I asked to join?", "How long does an application take?", "How do I approve somebody who applied to my group?", "How do I set up questions for applicants?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "see-your-requests", "title": "See the groups you are waiting on", "steps": [ "Open Groups under Manage.", "Look at the Pending requests panel in the right column.", "Read the group names and how long each has been waiting." ] }, { "key": "answer-a-request", "title": "Answer an application to your group", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press Group Settings at the top right. It appears only for admins.", "Press the Requests tab.", "Read the application and approve or decline it." ] }, { "key": "set-up-join-questions", "title": "Set up what applicants are asked", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press Group Settings at the top right.", "Press the Join Settings tab.", "Choose a Join Type. The choices are Open, Apply and approve, Invite Only, and Invite plus apply and approve.", "Write Application Instructions. Applicants read this before answering.", "Add your questions in the question editor.", "Switch on Require password challenge if you also want a password.", "Press Save Join Settings." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "member", "admin" ], "related": [ "joining-and-leaving", "groups", "members-and-roles", "group-hub" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA group that reviews applications does not let you in until an admin says yes.\n\nWhile you wait, your application sits in one list. For an admin, every application to their group sits in another.\n\n## What you see\n\nIn Groups under Manage, the narrow right column holds a panel headed Pending requests. It shows the count and one row per group, each with how long ago you asked.\n\nWhen you have asked for nothing, it reads that nothing is waiting, and explains that groups you ask to join wait here until an admin answers.\n\nOn the group's own page, the join button reads Request Pending and is greyed out.\n\nFor an admin, the group's settings carry a tab headed Requests, holding the applications the group has received.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Check what you are waiting on. See See the groups you are waiting on.\n- Approve or decline somebody. See Answer an application to your group.\n- Decide what applicants are asked. See Set up what applicants are asked.\n\n## How to\n\n### See the groups you are waiting on\n\n1. Open Groups under Manage.\n2. Look at the Pending requests panel in the right column.\n3. Read the group names and how long each has been waiting.\n\n### Answer an application to your group\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press Group Settings at the top right. It appears only for admins.\n3. Press the Requests tab.\n4. Read the application and approve or decline it.\n\n### Set up what applicants are asked\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press Group Settings at the top right.\n3. Press the Join Settings tab.\n4. Choose a Join Type. The choices are Open, Apply and approve, Invite Only, and Invite plus apply and approve.\n5. Write Application Instructions. Applicants read this before answering.\n6. Add your questions in the question editor.\n7. Switch on Require password challenge if you also want a password.\n8. Press Save Join Settings.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nIf you are not an admin you never see the Requests tab.\n\nAn admin can also switch Discovery between Public and Hidden on the same tab. Hidden keeps the group out of discovery lists.\n\nThe same tab carries the group's invite link. Generating a new one retires the old one when you save.\n\nRequire admin approval is switched on and locked whenever the Join Type already reviews applications.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Joining and leaving is the applicant's side of the same flow.\n- Groups holds the pending requests panel.\n- Members and roles explains what somebody gains once they are in." }, { "slug": "saved", "title": "Saved", "summary": "Everything you bookmarked, sorted for you into housing, gigs, rides, services, places and posts.", "surface": "Manage > Saved", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where are the things I bookmarked?", "How do I save a listing?", "How do I unsave something?", "Why is my saved item in the wrong category?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "save-something", "title": "Save something", "steps": [ "Open a listing anywhere in the hub.", "Press Save on it.", "The button changes to Saved." ] }, { "key": "find-something-saved", "title": "Find something you saved", "steps": [ "Open Saved under Manage.", "Look in All saved, or add the category panel you expect it under.", "Press the card to open it." ] }, { "key": "remove-a-save", "title": "Remove a bookmark", "steps": [ "Open Saved under Manage.", "Find the card.", "Press the remove control on it.", "It disappears from the list at once." ] } ], "terms": [ "listing", "saved", "panel" ], "related": [ "marketplace", "listings", "finding-things", "profile" ], "nav": [ "saved" ], "hubPages": [ "saved" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-18", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nSaved is one list of everything you bookmarked anywhere in the hub.\n\nThere is one save action in Rivr: the bookmark on a listing. This page sorts what you saved into eight tabs for you.\n\n## What you see\n\nAll saved holds everything you have bookmarked. A view control switches the list between rows, cards and pictures. Each card shows the name, a short description, what kind of thing it is, and a price when it has one.\n\nThe categories are panels of their own: Housing, Gigs, Rides, Services, Places, Posts and Other. They start hidden, because most people want the one list. Add the ones you want from Add widget and they appear beside it.\n\nA category you add only shows up when it has something in it, so an empty one never takes a space on your page.\n\nWhen nothing is saved at all, the list says so, and says that tapping the bookmark on a listing keeps it here.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Bookmark something while you are browsing. See Save something.\n- Come back to it. See Find something you saved.\n- Take it off the list. See Remove a bookmark.\n\n## How to\n\n### Save something\n\n1. Open a listing anywhere in the hub.\n2. Press Save on it.\n3. The button changes to Saved.\n\n### Find something you saved\n\n1. Open Saved under Manage.\n2. Look in All saved, or add the category panel you expect it under.\n3. Press the card to open it.\n\n### Remove a bookmark\n\n1. Open Saved under Manage.\n2. Find the card.\n3. Press the remove control on it.\n4. It disappears from the list at once.\n\nIf the removal fails, the card comes back and a note tells you the bookmark could not be removed.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach this page.\n\nThe categories are worked out from what each saved thing is, not chosen by you. Anything that fits no category lands in Other, so All saved always equals the number of things you have saved.\n\nYour choice of rows, cards or pictures is remembered.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Marketplace is where most saves come from.\n- Listings is what you offer, as opposed to what you bookmarked.\n- Finding things covers search, the map, notifications and saved together." }, { "slug": "search", "title": "Search", "summary": "One field that looks across everything you are allowed to see, and a page of results you can narrow and share.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I search the whole app?", "Where do my search results appear?", "How do I narrow a search to one place or one kind of thing?", "Can I send someone a search?", "How do I get back to a search I did before?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "search-for-something", "title": "Search for something", "steps": [ "Press the forward slash key, or click the field at the top of the page.", "Type what you are looking for. Results begin to appear as you type.", "Press Enter." ] }, { "key": "narrow-a-search", "title": "Narrow a search", "steps": [ "Run a search.", "In the Narrow panel on the left, choose a kind of thing, a place, a group, a tag, a price range or a date range.", "The results cut down as you choose. Choose the same thing again to undo it." ] }, { "key": "share-or-return-to-a-search", "title": "Share a search, or come back to it", "steps": [ "Run a search and narrow it however you like.", "Copy the address of the page.", "Send it to somebody, or keep it." ] }, { "key": "jump-to-a-page-by-keyboard", "title": "Jump to a page by keyboard", "steps": [ "Hold Command and press K.", "Start typing the name of a page.", "Press Enter to go there." ] } ], "terms": [ "panel", "place", "group", "listing" ], "related": [ "explore", "finding-things", "who-can-see-what", "hubs-and-panels", "map" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [ "search" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA single field, at the top of every page, that looks across the whole app at once: people, groups, places, listings, events, jobs, projects, posts and documents.\n\nIt searches only what you are allowed to see. A private group's contents, somebody else's private things and a members-only project are not in your results, whoever else can see them.\n\nTyping a search takes you to its own page. It is not a menu and it is not a shortcut list.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe field sits in the top bar. Press the forward slash key from anywhere and your cursor lands in it.\n\nResults fill the middle of the page, grouped by what kind of thing each one is, with a count beside each group. A group shows a few results and opens to show the rest.\n\nThe narrow panel sits on the left, along with the searches you ran recently and the ones you saved.\n\nOn the right, people, groups and places each get a panel of their own, so a person who matched is not buried in a list of documents. Below them, a map shows what matched near you.\n\nBefore you have typed anything the page is not empty. It shows what is worth looking at now, the same way a hub page does.\n\nWhen nothing matches, the page says what it searched for and offers the same words again with your narrowing taken off.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Search across everything at once. See Search for something.\n- Cut the results down to one kind, one place, one group, a tag, a price or a date. See Narrow a search.\n- Send a search to somebody, or come back to it later. See Share a search, or come back to it.\n- Jump straight to a page without searching. See Jump to a page by keyboard.\n\n## How to\n\n### Search for something\n\n1. Press the forward slash key, or click the field at the top of the page.\n2. Type what you are looking for. Results begin to appear as you type.\n3. Press Enter.\n\nYou land on the search page, and the words you typed stay in the field.\n\n### Narrow a search\n\n1. Run a search.\n2. In the Narrow panel on the left, choose a kind of thing, a place, a group, a tag, a price range or a date range.\n3. The results cut down as you choose. Choose the same thing again to undo it.\n\nEvery choice you make becomes part of the page's address, so the narrowed search is a page in its own right.\n\n### Share a search, or come back to it\n\n1. Run a search and narrow it however you like.\n2. Copy the address of the page.\n3. Send it to somebody, or keep it.\n\nOpening that address again gives the same search, narrowing included. Somebody else opening it gets the same search against **their** permissions, so they see what they are allowed to see, not what you can.\n\nYour recent searches are kept in the panel on the left, and you can save one there to keep it.\n\n### Jump to a page by keyboard\n\n1. Hold Command and press K.\n2. Start typing the name of a page.\n3. Press Enter to go there.\n\nThis is the quick way between pages. It does not search your things; the field at the top does that.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou only ever see what you are allowed to see, and the same search gives different results to different people for that reason. Nothing is greyed out or shown as withheld: a thing you may not see is absent.\n\nSigned out, you see what is public.\n\nA place you have not joined still appears, because places are public. A private group does not.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Explore browses the same things as pictures and as a graph, when you would rather look than ask.\n- Finding things covers the other ways around: the map, notifications and saved.\n- Who can see what explains the rules that decide what is in your results." }, { "slug": "settings", "title": "Settings", "summary": "Eight tabs holding your account, your privacy, your notifications, your appearance, your connected services, your assistant, your selling and your federation.", "surface": "Account > Settings", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I change my name?", "How do I set my home place?", "How do I change who can see my profile?", "How do I turn off email notifications?", "How do I switch to dark mode?", "How do I log out?", "How do I delete my account?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "edit-your-account", "title": "Edit your account details", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Stay on the Account tab.", "Change any field you want.", "Set Home Locale to the place the weather and the feeds should fall back to.", "Press Save Changes at the bottom." ] }, { "key": "set-privacy", "title": "Change who can see what", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Privacy tab.", "Work through the first card, which controls your profile information, your transactions and your activity.", "Find the card headed Profile Tab Visibility.", "Set each part of your profile to Public, Connections, Only Me or Hidden.", "Save." ] }, { "key": "switch-theme", "title": "Switch between light and dark", "steps": [ "Press the sun or moon in the bar at the top. This is the fastest way.", "Or open Settings under Account, press the Appearance tab, and use the Dark Mode switch." ] }, { "key": "log-out", "title": "Log out", "steps": [ "Press Log out at the bottom of the Account section in the menu on the left.", "You are signed out and returned to the public front page." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "persona", "visibility", "membership" ], "related": [ "connected-services", "notifications", "profile", "who-can-see-what" ], "nav": [ "settings", "logout" ], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nSettings is everything about your account that is not on a page of its own.\n\nIt is eight tabs. Most people only ever need the first three.\n\n## What you see\n\nEight tabs across the top: Account, Privacy, Notifications, Appearance, Connectors, Assistant, Seller and Federation.\n\nAccount holds your Name, Username, Email, Phone, Tagline and Bio, then Home Locale, then your 3D home, then Social Links, Skills, Profile Photos and your 3D avatar. Below those sits a block headed Persona and Personal Info, with fields for Gene Keys, Human Design, Western Astrology, Vedic Astrology, OCEAN, Myers-Briggs and Enneagram. A Save Changes button sits at the bottom, with the account danger zone below it.\n\nPrivacy holds two cards. The first controls who can see your profile information, your transactions and your activity. The second, headed Profile Tab Visibility, sets each part of your profile to Public, Connections, Only Me or Hidden.\n\nNotifications holds exactly two switches. Email Notifications, and Publish to Murmurations, which lists your profile in a public directory of regenerative projects.\n\nAppearance holds one switch, Dark Mode.\n\nConnectors holds four panels: your connected accounts, the feeds you follow, an archive import, and messenger bridges.\n\nAssistant holds the credential the assistant runs on and the assistant's own settings.\n\nSeller holds your membership and your payout account.\n\nFederation controls whether this account can send content to trusted peers.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Change your details. See Edit your account details.\n- Decide what others see. See Change who can see what.\n- Switch the look of the hub. See Switch between light and dark.\n- Sign out. See Log out.\n\n## How to\n\n### Edit your account details\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Stay on the Account tab.\n3. Change any field you want.\n4. Set Home Locale to the place the weather and the feeds should fall back to.\n5. Press Save Changes at the bottom.\n\n### Change who can see what\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Privacy tab.\n3. Work through the first card, which controls your profile information, your transactions and your activity.\n4. Find the card headed Profile Tab Visibility.\n5. Set each part of your profile to Public, Connections, Only Me or Hidden.\n6. Save.\n\n### Switch between light and dark\n\n1. Press the sun or moon in the bar at the top. This is the fastest way.\n2. Or open Settings under Account, press the Appearance tab, and use the Dark Mode switch.\n\n### Log out\n\n1. Press Log out at the bottom of the Account section in the menu on the left.\n2. You are signed out and returned to the public front page.\n\nYou can also press your picture in the bar at the top and log out from the menu that opens.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Settings.\n\nThere are two more settings pages that are not tabs here. One sets the tax details a payout needs. The other sets the outgoing email identity, and only an instance admin can reach it.\n\nEmail for signing up, resetting a password and recovering an account is always sent by the identity authority, whatever the outgoing email page says.\n\nEvery part of your profile starts Public. You opt into restriction, never out of it by accident.\n\nThe Connections level on your profile means your connections only. The Members and Admin levels belong to groups, not to a person, so they are not offered here.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Connected services explains the Connectors tab in full.\n- Notifications explains the bell and the two switches together.\n- Profile is the page most of these fields end up on." }, { "slug": "subgroups-and-projects", "title": "Subgroups and projects", "summary": "A subgroup is a group inside a group. A project is a piece of work with jobs, a budget and a page of its own.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What is the difference between a subgroup and a project?", "Where do I see my group's projects?", "How do I start a project?", "How does a project get money?", "Where are a project's jobs?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "find-a-groups-projects", "title": "Find a group's projects", "steps": [ "Open the group.", "Press the Jobs tab.", "Read the board. Projects are listed with their jobs beneath them.", "Press View Project Details on the one you want." ] }, { "key": "start-a-project", "title": "Start a project", "steps": [ "Press the plus button in the bar at the top.", "Press the Project tab.", "Fill in the details.", "Choose the group that will hold it.", "Press Create Project. You land on the project you made." ] }, { "key": "add-a-job-to-a-project", "title": "Add a job to a project", "steps": [ "Open the project.", "Press Add Job. It appears only for admins.", "Fill in the title, the description and how the work is paid.", "Set how many people can claim it and how many hours it may take.", "Save it." ] }, { "key": "read-a-projects-overview", "title": "Read a project's overview", "steps": [ "Open the project.", "Stay on the About tab.", "Read the left column for who leads it and who is on it.", "Read Work tree in the middle for the jobs and who has them.", "Read Expenses for the balance and what has gone out.", "Press and hold a panel to move it, or pull its edge to resize it. There is no mode to enter first." ] } ], "terms": [ "group", "subgroup", "project", "job", "panel", "treasury" ], "related": [ "organization-tree", "gigs", "group-treasury", "making-things", "hubs-and-panels" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [ "project-hub" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nA subgroup is a group that lives inside another group. It has its own page, its own members and its own tabs.\n\nA project is a piece of work. It has jobs beneath it, a page of its own, and a share of its group's money.\n\nThey are different things. A subgroup is people. A project is work.\n\n## What you see\n\nOn a group's page, the Groups tab lists its subgroups.\n\nThe Jobs tab holds the board headed Projects and Jobs, described as a place to find projects and jobs to contribute to and earn points.\n\nAbove the board sit a search box, a filter for status offering All Status, Open, Active, Planning, In Progress and Completed, and a filter by category. Beside them sit buttons reading New Job and New Project.\n\nEach project on the board carries a button reading View Project Details. Admins also get an Add Job button on each project.\n\nA project's own page carries seven tabs: About, Jobs, Calendar, Team, Treasury, Stock and, for the people who may read them, Docs. Each of Jobs, Team and Docs carries a count.\n\nThe About tab is a page of panels you can arrange, like the Dashboard. Add widget and Reset layout sit in its header. Its narrow left column holds About, which is the lead, the status, and where and when, and Team, which is who is working on it. Its wide middle column holds Work tree, which draws the project's jobs with their assignees and status, then Jobs, then Tasks, which is the checklist under those jobs, then Expenses, which is the project balance and what has been spent. Its narrow right column holds Docs and Recent activity.\n\nOn a group's Treasury tab, the panel headed Subgroup and project balances lists each pocket with what is available in it and what has been spent.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- See what a group is building. See Find a group's projects.\n- Open a new piece of work. See Start a project.\n- Break a project into jobs people can claim. See Add a job to a project.\n\n## How to\n\n### Find a group's projects\n\n1. Open the group.\n2. Press the Jobs tab.\n3. Read the board. Projects are listed with their jobs beneath them.\n4. Press View Project Details on the one you want.\n\nYou can also open Gigs under Manage and read the panel headed Discover projects in my groups.\n\n### Start a project\n\n1. Press the plus button in the bar at the top.\n2. Press the Project tab.\n3. Fill in the details.\n4. Choose the group that will hold it.\n5. Press Create Project. You land on the project you made.\n\n### Add a job to a project\n\n1. Open the project.\n2. Press Add Job. It appears only for admins.\n3. Fill in the title, the description and how the work is paid.\n4. Set how many people can claim it and how many hours it may take.\n5. Save it.\n\n### Read a project's overview\n\n1. Open the project.\n2. Stay on the About tab.\n3. Read the left column for who leads it and who is on it.\n4. Read Work tree in the middle for the jobs and who has them.\n5. Read Expenses for the balance and what has gone out.\n6. Press and hold a panel to move it, or pull its edge to resize it. There is no mode to enter first.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nPosting a job on a group's Jobs tab is for admins. The board's own New Job and New Project buttons follow the same rule.\n\nA project's money comes from the group that holds it. Its balance shows on the group's Treasury tab, which only admins can open.\n\nA subgroup with no money of its own still shows in the treasury list, with nothing in it, rather than disappearing.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- The organization tree explains how subgroups nest.\n- Gigs is where the jobs under a project become claimable work.\n- The group treasury explains where a project's money sits.\n- Hubs and panels explains how to arrange the About tab's panels." }, { "slug": "support", "title": "Support", "summary": "The help topics, the two addresses that reach the cooperative, and the legal documents behind Rivr.", "surface": "Account > Support", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I get help?", "Who do I email?", "Where are the terms and the privacy policy?", "How do I ask for my data?", "Is there a support ticket system?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "find-a-help-topic", "title": "Find a help topic", "steps": [ "Open Support under Account.", "Read the Help topics panel. It is grouped by what you are trying to do.", "Press the topic closest to your question.", "Press Open the wiki at the top of the panel to see the whole handbook." ] }, { "key": "email-for-help", "title": "Email for help", "steps": [ "Open Support under Account.", "Read the Contact panel.", "Press the first address for accounts, billing, terms and anything else.", "Press the second address for anything about your own data.", "Say which page you were on and what you expected to happen." ] }, { "key": "read-the-legal-documents", "title": "Read the legal documents", "steps": [ "Open Support under Account.", "Read the Legal panel.", "Press Terms of Service for what you agree to by using Rivr.", "Press Privacy Policy for what is collected, why, and how to get it back.", "Read the date and the governing law beneath them." ] } ], "terms": [ "panel", "document" ], "related": [ "settings", "wallet", "what-the-hub-is", "glossary" ], "nav": [ "support" ], "hubPages": [ "support" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nSupport is where to look when the hub is not doing what you expected.\n\nRivr has no ticket queue. What it has is this handbook, two real addresses, and its terms and privacy policy.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Support. Above it sits the word Account.\n\nFour panels sit down the page.\n\nHelp topics holds this handbook, grouped by what you are trying to do, with a link at the top reading Open the wiki.\n\nContact holds two addresses. One is for accounts, billing, terms and anything else. The other is for data access, correction and deletion requests. A line below says the cooperative has no ticket queue and that these two addresses are staffed directly.\n\nAccount holds four links: Settings, Tax information, Outgoing email and your money.\n\nLegal holds the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy, with the date they took effect and the law that governs them.\n\nStill stuck points at the developer reference and repeats the address to write to.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Look for the answer here first. See Find a help topic.\n- Write to a person. See Email for help.\n- Read what you agreed to. See Read the legal documents.\n\n## How to\n\n### Find a help topic\n\n1. Open Support under Account.\n2. Read the Help topics panel. It is grouped by what you are trying to do.\n3. Press the topic closest to your question.\n4. Press Open the wiki at the top of the panel to see the whole handbook.\n\n### Email for help\n\n1. Open Support under Account.\n2. Read the Contact panel.\n3. Press the first address for accounts, billing, terms and anything else.\n4. Press the second address for anything about your own data.\n5. Say which page you were on and what you expected to happen.\n\n### Read the legal documents\n\n1. Open Support under Account.\n2. Read the Legal panel.\n3. Press Terms of Service for what you agree to by using Rivr.\n4. Press Privacy Policy for what is collected, why, and how to get it back.\n5. Read the date and the governing law beneath them.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nAnyone can open Support, signed in or not. Nothing on it is gated.\n\nThe two addresses go to the cooperative, not to a queue. A person answers.\n\nThe Account panel links to the two settings pages that are not tabs in Settings: the tax details a payout needs, and the outgoing email identity.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Settings is where most account questions are answered.\n- Wallet is where the money questions are answered.\n- Glossary defines every term you will meet." }, { "slug": "switching-places", "title": "Switching places", "summary": "What actually changes on each page when you switch the place you are viewing in.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What happens when I change my place?", "Which pages follow the place I picked?", "Why did my events list change?", "Why does my town's page ignore the place filter?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "see-the-effect", "title": "See what a switch changes", "steps": [ "Open Events under Manage.", "Read the count beside the Discover events panel.", "Press the pill in the bar at the top and choose a different place.", "Read the count again. The panel now holds that place's events." ] }, { "key": "widen-back-out", "title": "Widen back out", "steps": [ "Press the pill in the bar at the top.", "Press All Locales.", "Every page now shows every place." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "place hub", "Global Hub", "feed" ], "related": [ "choosing-your-places", "locale-hub", "global-hub", "finding-things" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nSwitching places is a filter. It never moves you off the page you are reading.\n\nThis page lists what the filter reaches and what it does not.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe pill in the bar at the top always says which place you are viewing in, or All Locales.\n\nWhen you switch, the page you are on redraws in place. Panels that hold local things get shorter or longer. Headings that name a place change to the new one.\n\nThe line above the title on several pages changes too. It reads the place's name when one is chosen, and a general phrase when none is.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Watch a page change under the filter. See See what a switch changes.\n- Take the filter off. See Widen back out.\n\n## How to\n\n### See what a switch changes\n\n1. Open Events under Manage.\n2. Read the count beside the Discover events panel.\n3. Press the pill in the bar at the top and choose a different place.\n4. Read the count again. The panel now holds that place's events.\n\n### Widen back out\n\n1. Press the pill in the bar at the top.\n2. Press All Locales.\n3. Every page now shows every place.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nThese pages follow your choice: Dashboard, Explore, Events, Groups, People, Voice and Gigs.\n\nA place's own page does not. Neither does the Global Hub, which is every place by definition.\n\nMessages, Wallet, Calendar, Saved and Settings are about you, not about a place, so the filter does not reach them.\n\nOn a place's own page the switcher both records your choice and takes you to the place you pick, because that page is addressed by one place. Everywhere else it only filters.\n\nYour choice is remembered for a year. It survives closing the browser.\n\nAn older shared link that names a place in its address still selects that place, then drops it from the address bar, so a filtered view is never a separate link.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Choosing your places is how to make the switch.\n- A place hub is the one page addressed by a place rather than filtered by one.\n- Finding things covers search, which is also scoped by your choice." }, { "slug": "voice", "title": "Voice", "summary": "Every decision waiting on you across your groups, plus the proposals, polls and issues you can raise, and the proxies you can give and take back.", "surface": "Manage > Voice", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where do I vote on things?", "How do I raise a proposal?", "How do I hand my vote to someone I trust?", "How do I hand my vote to someone for only the budget decisions?", "How do I take my vote back?", "What happens if I vote myself after giving somebody my proxy?", "Who has entrusted me their vote?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "vote-on-a-proposal", "title": "Vote on a proposal", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Find the Decisions to vote on panel.", "Find the row marked Proposal.", "Press Yes, No or Abstain on that row.", "A note confirms how you voted." ] }, { "key": "answer-a-poll", "title": "Answer a poll", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Find the Decisions to vote on panel.", "Find the row marked Poll.", "Press Answer poll on that row.", "The group's governance tab opens with the poll ready to answer." ] }, { "key": "raise-something", "title": "Raise a proposal, a poll or an issue", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Find the Raise your voice panel in the right column.", "Choose the group from the list.", "Press Raise a proposal, Ask a poll or Report an issue.", "The group's governance tab opens with the right form ready." ] }, { "key": "delegate-a-scope", "title": "Hand your vote to somebody", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Press Manage proxies in the Your voice panel.", "Find the form headed Delegate a scope.", "Choose the Group.", "Choose the Scope. Whole group hands over every decision in that group. One category hands over only one kind of decision.", "Choose the Category if you picked one category. The list holds the categories that group has filed.", "Choose the Duration. The choices are: until you take it back, seven days, thirty days, or ninety days.", "Press Find a proxy under Who. A window opens listing the people you share that group with, in alphabetical order.", "Search by name if the list is long, then press Choose on the person you want.", "Press Delegate." ] }, { "key": "take-a-proxy-back", "title": "Take your vote back", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Press Manage proxies in the Your voice panel.", "Find the proxy in the Active list, or in Waiting on an answer.", "Press Take back on that row.", "A note confirms your vote is yours again." ] }, { "key": "answer-a-proxy-request", "title": "Answer somebody who asked you to carry their vote", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Find the Proxy requests panel in the right column.", "Read the scope the person is handing over.", "Press Accept or Decline on that row." ] }, { "key": "vote-anyway", "title": "Vote yourself on a decision you delegated", "steps": [ "Open Voice under Manage.", "Find the Decisions to vote on panel.", "A delegated row shows who carries it instead of a ballot, and a button reading Vote anyway.", "Press Vote anyway. The Yes, No and Abstain buttons appear. Nothing is chosen for you.", "Press your answer." ] } ], "terms": [ "proposal", "poll", "issue", "ballot", "proxy", "scope", "quorum", "group" ], "related": [ "having-a-say", "groups", "group-hub", "flow-planning" ], "nav": [ "voice" ], "hubPages": [ "voice" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nVoice is where you decide things with your groups.\n\nThree things get raised in a group. A proposal, which is a yes or no question. A poll, which offers a set of answers. An issue, which is a thing to discuss before anyone decides.\n\nVoice also holds proxies. A proxy hands your vote, for a named scope, to somebody you trust.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe title reads Voice. Above it sits the place you are viewing in, or a line saying decide together.\n\nUnder the title runs a one-line summary. It counts what is open, what you have delegated, what has been delegated to you, how many requests are waiting, and what closes today. A count of zero is left out. When everything is zero the line is not drawn.\n\nThe wide middle column holds four panels.\n\nDecisions to vote on lists every open proposal and poll across your groups, with whose ballot each one is. Each row shows what share is in favour, how many votes there are, and how long is left.\n\nWhere is my voice gives one row per scope, saying whether you vote there yourself or who carries it.\n\nClosing soon lists open ballots by deadline, soonest first.\n\nIssues and proposals holds what is being discussed but not yet decided. Three filters narrow it: All, Issues and In discussion.\n\nThe narrow right column holds five panels.\n\nYour voice says in a sentence how many scopes you vote in yourself and how many are delegated, and carries a button to Manage proxies.\n\nProxy requests lists people asking you to carry their vote, with Accept and Decline on each row.\n\nDelegated to me lists who entrusted you what.\n\nRaise your voice offers a group and three buttons: Raise a proposal, Ask a poll and Report an issue.\n\nRecent outcomes lists decisions that closed, with their result and how your vote was cast.\n\nTen more panels are registered and switched off. Add any of them from the Add widget list: Your vote history, Proxy activity, Proxy chain, Governance calendar, Decision history, Proxy expirations, Voting power, Participation summary, Quorum watch and My groups' decisions.\n\nThe page header carries Add widget and Reset layout. Everything else about a panel is on the panel itself.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Answer a yes or no question. See Vote on a proposal.\n- Answer a question with a set of answers. See Answer a poll.\n- Put something to your group. See Raise a proposal, a poll or an issue.\n- Give your vote to somebody for a scope. See Hand your vote to somebody.\n- Take it back. See Take your vote back.\n- Answer somebody who asked for yours. See Answer somebody who asked you to carry their vote.\n- Vote yourself on something you had delegated. See Vote yourself on a decision you delegated.\n\n## How to\n\n### Vote on a proposal\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Find the Decisions to vote on panel.\n3. Find the row marked Proposal.\n4. Press Yes, No or Abstain on that row.\n5. A note confirms how you voted.\n\n### Answer a poll\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Find the Decisions to vote on panel.\n3. Find the row marked Poll.\n4. Press Answer poll on that row.\n5. The group's governance tab opens with the poll ready to answer.\n\n### Raise a proposal, a poll or an issue\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Find the Raise your voice panel in the right column.\n3. Choose the group from the list.\n4. Press Raise a proposal, Ask a poll or Report an issue.\n5. The group's governance tab opens with the right form ready.\n\nIf you belong to no groups, the panel tells you to join one first.\n\n### Hand your vote to somebody\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Press Manage proxies in the Your voice panel.\n3. Find the form headed Delegate a scope.\n4. Choose the Group.\n5. Choose the Scope. Whole group hands over every decision in that group. One category hands over only one kind of decision.\n6. Choose the Category if you picked one category. The list holds the categories that group has filed.\n7. Choose the Duration. The choices are: until you take it back, seven days, thirty days, or ninety days.\n8. Press Find a proxy under Who. A window opens listing the people you share that group with, in alphabetical order.\n9. Search by name if the list is long, then press Choose on the person you want.\n10. Press Delegate.\n\nA note confirms the proxy is requested, and says it carries your vote once they accept.\n\n### Take your vote back\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Press Manage proxies in the Your voice panel.\n3. Find the proxy in the Active list, or in Waiting on an answer.\n4. Press Take back on that row.\n5. A note confirms your vote is yours again.\n\nEither side can end a proxy, so the same control sits on the Voices you carry list.\n\n### Answer somebody who asked you to carry their vote\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Find the Proxy requests panel in the right column.\n3. Read the scope the person is handing over.\n4. Press Accept or Decline on that row.\n\n### Vote yourself on a decision you delegated\n\n1. Open Voice under Manage.\n2. Find the Decisions to vote on panel.\n3. A delegated row shows who carries it instead of a ballot, and a button reading Vote anyway.\n4. Press Vote anyway. The Yes, No and Abstain buttons appear. Nothing is chosen for you.\n5. Press your answer.\n\nYour own vote replaces the proxy on that one decision. The proxy itself stays in place for everything else.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Voice. Nothing on this page is admin only.\n\nYou can only delegate a vote you are eligible to cast, and only to somebody who is eligible in the same scope.\n\nA proxy starts as a request. It carries nothing until the other person accepts.\n\nA proxy cannot loop back to you, and a chain of proxies is limited to three steps so everyone can see where a vote ends up.\n\nYou can hold only one proxy per scope. Take the old one back before making a new one.\n\nA narrower scope beats a wider one. A category proxy wins over a whole-group proxy for that category.\n\nA proxy carries your weight, not the weight of the person carrying it.\n\nAn accepted proxy the holder never uses moves nothing. It is an abstention, not an automatic yes.\n\nWhether a decision needs a minimum turnout is set by whoever raised it, not by Rivr.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Having a say is the shorter explanation of proposals, polls, issues and proxies.\n- A group's page carries the Governance tab where a ballot is actually written.\n- Groups is where you join the groups whose decisions land here." }, { "slug": "wallet", "title": "Wallet", "summary": "Your balances, your sales, your profit shares, your expenses and, when you administer one, your groups' treasuries.", "surface": "Manage > Wallet", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Where is my money?", "What is my balance?", "How do I get paid?", "How do I set up a payout account?", "Where do I see my sales?", "What is a profit share?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "check-your-balances", "title": "Check your balances", "steps": [ "Open Wallet under Manage.", "Look at the Financial overview and Wallets panels.", "Read the three tiles across the top.", "Read Wallets below them for one row per wallet." ] }, { "key": "set-up-a-payout-account", "title": "Set up a payout account", "steps": [ "Open your profile.", "Find the Wallet panel.", "Press Set Up Payout Account.", "Follow the steps the payment provider asks for.", "Come back. The panel now shows whether charges, payouts and details are in order." ] }, { "key": "take-a-payout", "title": "Take a payout", "steps": [ "Open your profile.", "Find the Wallet panel.", "Read the available amount. The payout controls appear only when there is something to pay out.", "Press the bank payout control for the slower route, or the instant one when it is offered.", "A note confirms the payout has started." ] }, { "key": "see-your-sales-here", "title": "See your sales", "steps": [ "Open Wallet under Manage.", "Find the Sales panel down the side.", "Read Sales for the totals and Payouts for where the money stands." ] }, { "key": "open-a-group-treasury", "title": "Open a group's treasury", "steps": [ "Open Wallet under Manage.", "Find the Group treasuries panel. It is there only when you administer a group.", "Press the pill for the group.", "That group's treasury opens below." ] } ], "terms": [ "wallet", "treasury", "payout", "Thanks", "points", "stake", "receipt" ], "related": [ "money", "listings", "marketplace", "group-treasury" ], "nav": [ "finance" ], "hubPages": [ "finance" ], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-18", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nWallet is your money. It holds what you have, what you have sold, what you are owed, and what you have spent.\n\nIt also carries a way into the treasuries of the groups you administer.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe page is panels you can rearrange, not tabs. Everything is on screen at once, and you can move a panel, resize it, collapse it or hide it.\n\nFinancial overview shows three tiles side by side, labelled Rivr, Integrated and Crypto. The Rivr tile counts your Thanks rather than money. The Integrated tile shows money. The Crypto tile counts the addresses you have linked.\n\nWallets lists one row per wallet with its owner, its kind and its balance. When you have none, it says one is created on your first transaction.\n\nThis window gives four figures, labelled In, Out, Net and Settled transactions. They cover the transactions loaded below, not your whole history.\n\nRecent transactions lists them.\n\nExpenses lists the project expenses you have recorded.\n\nStake and shares lists the profit share you hold in each group, with the total above them. When you hold none it says so, and explains that shares are allocated by each group from its own contribution figures.\n\nDown the side, Sales gives your gross, your fees, your net and a count of settlements, and Payouts gives your available amount, your pending amount, your held proceeds, and whether charges and payouts are switched on.\n\nGroup treasuries appears only when you administer at least one group. It shows one pill per group, and pressing one opens that group's treasury below. If you administer none, the panel is not there at all rather than sitting empty.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- See what you have. See Check your balances.\n- Get set up to take card payments. See Set up a payout account.\n- Move money out to your bank. See Take a payout.\n- Read what you have sold. See See your sales.\n- Open a group's money. See Open a group's treasury.\n\n## How to\n\n### Check your balances\n\n1. Open Wallet under Manage.\n2. Look at the Financial overview and Wallets panels.\n3. Read the three tiles across the top.\n4. Read Wallets below them for one row per wallet.\n\nYour profile also carries a Wallet panel with the same balances and four sub-tabs: Transactions, Purchases, Sales and Taxes.\n\n### Set up a payout account\n\n1. Open your profile.\n2. Find the Wallet panel.\n3. Press Set Up Payout Account.\n4. Follow the steps the payment provider asks for.\n5. Come back. The panel now shows whether charges, payouts and details are in order.\n\nUntil then, the Payouts panel in Wallet tells you no payout account is connected and points you at Settings.\n\n### Take a payout\n\n1. Open your profile.\n2. Find the Wallet panel.\n3. Read the available amount. The payout controls appear only when there is something to pay out.\n4. Press the bank payout control for the slower route, or the instant one when it is offered.\n5. A note confirms the payout has started.\n\n### See your sales\n\n1. Open Wallet under Manage.\n2. Find the Sales panel down the side.\n3. Read Sales for the totals and Payouts for where the money stands.\n\nThese are your settlements as the seller. The other side of the same money sits under Marketplace.\n\n### Open a group's treasury\n\n1. Open Wallet under Manage.\n2. Find the Group treasuries panel. It is there only when you administer a group.\n3. Press the pill for the group.\n4. That group's treasury opens below.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYou must be signed in to reach Wallet.\n\nThe Group treasuries panel lists only groups you created or administer. Places are never listed.\n\nThe figures under This window cover the transactions loaded on the page, not your lifetime.\n\nYour profit share percentages are set by each group from its own figures. They are not a Rivr-wide rule.\n\nSelling with a card needs a Seller membership or higher and a connected payout account.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Money explains fees, payouts, receipts and treasuries together.\n- Listings is what you sell.\n- A group's treasury is the group's money rather than yours." }, { "slug": "what-the-hub-is", "title": "What the hub is", "summary": "The hub is your home in Rivr, built from panels you arrange, scoped to the places you belong to.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What is Rivr?", "What am I looking at when I sign in?", "What can I actually do here?", "Where do I start?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "take-the-tour", "title": "Take the tour", "steps": [ "Open Dashboard under Home. This is what you see every time you sign in.", "Open Map under Home. Every event, group, post and offering with a location sits on it.", "Open Explore under Home. The same world as pictures and as a graph.", "Open one of your places under My Places. This is that place's own front page.", "Open Gigs under Manage. This is the work you could pick up.", "Open Voice under Manage. This is every decision waiting on you." ] }, { "key": "find-anything", "title": "Find anything", "steps": [ "Press the search box in the bar at the top.", "Type a name, a word or a phrase.", "Read the results, which are grouped as Posts, Events, Groups, People and Listings.", "Press the one you want." ] } ], "terms": [ "hub page", "panel", "place", "group" ], "related": [ "choosing-your-places", "your-first-day", "dashboard", "hubs-and-panels" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nRivr is a network of people, places and groups who share work, money, events and decisions.\n\nThe hub is the part you use. It is one screen with a menu down the left, a bar across the top, and a page in the middle made of panels.\n\nEverything you do in Rivr happens on one of those pages. Nothing is hidden behind a separate app.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe menu down the left is grouped into six headings.\n\nHome holds the Dashboard, the Map and Explore. These are the three ways to look at everything.\n\nMy Places lists the places you belong to, and the Global Hub at the bottom, which is every place at once.\n\nMy Groups lists the groups you belong to.\n\nManage holds the thirteen things that are yours to run. Profile, Saved, Events, Groups, Voice, People, Gigs, Listings, Marketplace, Messages, Broadcast, Wallet and Calendar.\n\nTools holds Builder, Docs, Canvas, AI and Flow Planning.\n\nAccount holds Settings, Support and Log out.\n\nThe bar across the top holds, from left to right, a button that folds the menu away, a pill that says which place you are viewing in, a search box, a light and dark switch, a bell for notifications, an envelope for messages, a plus button for making something new, and your picture.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Walk through the hub once so the shape of it sticks. See Take the tour.\n- Search for a person, a place, a group or a post. See Find anything.\n\n## How to\n\n### Take the tour\n\n1. Open Dashboard under Home. This is what you see every time you sign in.\n2. Open Map under Home. Every event, group, post and offering with a location sits on it.\n3. Open Explore under Home. The same world as pictures and as a graph.\n4. Open one of your places under My Places. This is that place's own front page.\n5. Open Gigs under Manage. This is the work you could pick up.\n6. Open Voice under Manage. This is every decision waiting on you.\n\n### Find anything\n\n1. Press the search box in the bar at the top.\n2. Type a name, a word or a phrase.\n3. Read the results, which are grouped as Posts, Events, Groups, People and Listings.\n4. Press the one you want.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nIf you are not signed in, you can still read the Global Hub, the Map, Explore and search. You cannot post, claim work, vote or see your own pages.\n\nIf you have not chosen a place yet, the pill in the top bar reads All Locales and nothing is filtered. Choosing a place narrows most pages to that place.\n\nIf you belong to no groups yet, the My Groups heading is empty and several panels tell you to join a group first.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Choosing your places explains how the pill in the top bar changes what you see everywhere else.\n- Your first day is a short list of the things worth doing in your first sitting.\n- Hubs and panels explains how to rearrange any page." }, { "slug": "who-can-see-what", "title": "Who can see what", "summary": "Visibility in Rivr is set per thing, and there are four different controls, each with its own words.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "Who can see my post?", "How do I post to only one group?", "How do I post as a group instead of as myself?", "How do I hide part of my profile?", "Why can I not see a tab in this group?", "Can I post as a place?", "Who can see my portal or enter my room?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "set-post-visibility", "title": "Set who a post is for", "steps": [ "Start a post.", "Leave Show globally on for everyone to see it.", "Switch Show globally off to narrow it.", "Press the Visibility button.", "Name the places, the groups and the people who should see it.", "Publish." ] }, { "key": "post-as-a-group", "title": "Post as a group", "steps": [ "Start a post.", "Find the Post as list. It appears only when you steward at least one group.", "Choose the group.", "Write and publish. The post goes out in the group's name." ] }, { "key": "set-document-visibility", "title": "Set who a document is for", "steps": [ "Open the document.", "Find the section headed Visibility.", "Choose one of the five settings. Public means anyone can find and view it. Locale means anyone in the same place. Members means members only. Private means you and the people you name. Hidden means it is kept out of listings and reached only by an explicit grant.", "Use the section headed Shared with to name individual people or groups." ] }, { "key": "set-profile-visibility", "title": "Set who each part of your profile is for", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Press the Privacy tab.", "Find the card headed Profile Tab Visibility.", "Set each part to Public, Connections, Only Me or Hidden.", "Save." ] } ], "terms": [ "visibility", "place", "group", "persona", "document", "admin", "member" ], "related": [ "making-things", "profile", "group-hub", "docs", "portals-and-rooms", "physical-things" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nEverything you make carries its own answer to who can see it.\n\nThere is no single switch. There are four controls, in four places, and they use different words. This page names all four.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe first control is on the post composer and on the forms for an event, a project and a group. It is a button reading Visibility, followed by a short summary. With nothing chosen the summary reads Public. Opening it shows a line saying public means visible to everyone, then three sections where you name places, groups and people.\n\nThe second control sits beside it on the post composer. It is a Post as list, holding your own name and each group you steward. It appears only when you steward at least one group.\n\nThe third control is on a document. It is a section headed Visibility with five settings, and a section headed Shared with for naming individual people.\n\nThe fourth control is in Settings, on the Privacy tab, under Profile Tab Visibility. It has four settings and applies to each part of your profile.\n\nA group has one more, under Group Settings, on the Tab Visibility tab. It also has four settings and applies to each of the group's tabs.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Choose the audience for something you post. See Set who a post is for.\n- Publish in a group's name. See Post as a group.\n- Choose who reads a document. See Set who a document is for.\n- Keep part of your profile to yourself. See Set who each part of your profile is for.\n\n## How to\n\n### Set who a post is for\n\n1. Start a post.\n2. Leave Show globally on for everyone to see it.\n3. Switch Show globally off to narrow it.\n4. Press the Visibility button.\n5. Name the places, the groups and the people who should see it.\n6. Publish.\n\nWith Show globally off and nothing named, the composer refuses and tells you to choose at least one place, group or person.\n\n### Post as a group\n\n1. Start a post.\n2. Find the Post as list. It appears only when you steward at least one group.\n3. Choose the group.\n4. Write and publish. The post goes out in the group's name.\n\nYou can post as yourself, or as a group you administer. You can never post as a place. A place is a scope, not a voice.\n\n### Set who a document is for\n\n1. Open the document.\n2. Find the section headed Visibility.\n3. Choose one of the five settings. Public means anyone can find and view it. Locale means anyone in the same place. Members means members only. Private means you and the people you name. Hidden means it is kept out of listings and reached only by an explicit grant.\n4. Use the section headed Shared with to name individual people or groups.\n\n### Set who each part of your profile is for\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Press the Privacy tab.\n3. Find the card headed Profile Tab Visibility.\n4. Set each part to Public, Connections, Only Me or Hidden.\n5. Save.\n\nThe parts you can set are About, Posts, Thanks, Events, Groups, Photos and Offerings.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nEverything starts Public. You opt into restriction, never out of it by accident.\n\nThe four settings on a profile mean: Public is everyone; Connections is your connections only; Only Me is you; Hidden removes the part entirely.\n\nA group's four settings mean: Public is everyone; Members is group members; Admin is group admins; Hidden removes the tab entirely.\n\nConnections is a person's word and has no meaning for a group. Members and Admin are a group's words and have no meaning for a person. Each control offers only the words that apply.\n\nA group's Treasury tab is removed for anyone who is not an admin, whatever its setting says.\n\nSome pages are yours alone and cannot be shared at all. Your Wallet, your Saved list, your Calendar, your Docs, your Manage personas panel and your Membership panel are drawn only for you.\n\nA private event never appears on a global, place or group feed.\n\nPortals, rooms and physical things carry the same control as a post. A portal is seen by whoever its visibility names. A room is entered by whoever its visibility names on the instance hosting it, and by anyone at all when it is public. A thing is seen by whoever its visibility names, and moved only by the people who can change it.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Portals and rooms and Physical things apply these rules to XR Earth.\n\n- Making things is where the first two controls live.\n- Profile carries the parts the fourth control governs.\n- A group's page explains the tabs the group's control governs." }, { "slug": "xr-earth", "title": "XR Earth", "summary": "The Map's walkable version, on a phone or a headset, where you fly the whole planet, land, walk, and meet what is near you.", "surface": "Home > Map", "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "How do I walk around the map?", "How do I use Rivr on a headset?", "How do I fly with my hands?", "How do I switch between first person and third person?", "Why do I see two bodies?", "How do I show only one group's things in XR?", "What is the palm menu?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "open-xr-earth", "title": "Open XR Earth", "steps": [ "Open the Map under Home.", "Press the button marked XR above the globe.", "Wait for the ground to resolve. The strip at the top says when it has.", "On a phone, drag to move, pinch to fly higher or lower, and use two fingers to turn." ] }, { "key": "put-on-a-headset", "title": "Put on a headset", "steps": [ "Open XR Earth in the headset's browser.", "Open the XR menu and choose Use XR headset. The Enter XR button at the bottom does the same.", "Look around so the headset recognises your room.", "Pinch and drag to move. Bring both hands together to zoom out a view, spread them to zoom in." ] }, { "key": "fly-with-your-hands", "title": "Fly with your hands", "steps": [ "Hold both fists out in front of you. You fly where they point.", "Keep your hands close together to go fast, or far apart to go slow.", "Turn both palms outward to brake, then to fly backwards.", "Open your hands to stop." ] }, { "key": "change-your-view", "title": "Change your view", "steps": [ "From inside your flying body, turn your right palm down and pinch twice quickly. You see yourself from behind and above.", "Pinch twice again to go back inside.", "Bring both hands together to zoom out from the world into your standing body, and once more to send your flying body out.", "Press Home to fly back to your standing body and drop into your real room." ] }, { "key": "choose-a-group-channel", "title": "Choose a group channel", "steps": [ "Open the XR menu and choose World layers.", "Under Group channel, choose a group, or Public world for everything.", "Close the panel. Only that group's things, portals and people remain." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "group", "portal", "thing", "visibility" ], "related": [ "map", "portals-and-rooms", "physical-things", "who-can-see-what", "explore" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nXR Earth is the Map you can stand in. The same globe, drawn with terrain and buildings, that you fly over, land on and walk through.\n\nEverything on the Map is here too: events, groups, posts, offerings, the people who are nearby, portals into rooms, and physical things that carry a tag.\n\nIt works on a phone with your finger, and on a headset with your hands.\n\n## What you see\n\nThe planet, seen from space when you arrive. Below it, the place you last visited or your home, and the globe flies you there.\n\nA small strip at the top tells you where you are, how high you are, and which view you are in.\n\nA plus button opens the XR menu. Its items are Drop robot figurine, Nearby objects, Post a thing here, Scan a thing, Fly to a place, Fly home, World layers, Show my avatar nearby, Use XR headset or Use phone camera, My avatar, and Take off or Land here.\n\nThree round buttons on the right: Return to me, Home, and a button that swaps first person and third person.\n\nOn a headset your hands are the controls. A palm turned up opens a menu of what to show: Everything, Posts, Events, Groups, People, Market and Things. Two cupped hands bring up the tools.\n\nYou have two bodies. One stands where your device really is. The other is the one you fly around in. When you fly away, the first stays behind, and you can see it from the air.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Enter the walkable world from the Map. See Open XR Earth.\n- Use it on a Quest or another headset. See Put on a headset.\n- Travel by pointing your fists. See Fly with your hands.\n- Move between your four views. See Change your view.\n- Show only one group's things and people. See Choose a group channel.\n- Step through a portal into a room. See Portals and rooms.\n- Find a physical thing by its tag. See Physical things.\n\n## How to\n\n### Open XR Earth\n\n1. Open the Map under Home.\n2. Press the button marked XR above the globe.\n3. Wait for the ground to resolve. The strip at the top says when it has.\n4. On a phone, drag to move, pinch to fly higher or lower, and use two fingers to turn.\n\n### Put on a headset\n\n1. Open XR Earth in the headset's browser.\n2. Open the XR menu and choose Use XR headset. The Enter XR button at the bottom does the same.\n3. Look around so the headset recognises your room.\n4. Pinch and drag to move. Bring both hands together to zoom out a view, spread them to zoom in.\n\n### Fly with your hands\n\n1. Hold both fists out in front of you. You fly where they point.\n2. Keep your hands close together to go fast, or far apart to go slow.\n3. Turn both palms outward to brake, then to fly backwards.\n4. Open your hands to stop.\n\nYour fists only fly once you have landed. On the way in from space they do nothing, and the strip at the top says so.\n\n### Change your view\n\n1. From inside your flying body, turn your right palm down and pinch twice quickly. You see yourself from behind and above.\n2. Pinch twice again to go back inside.\n3. Bring both hands together to zoom out from the world into your standing body, and once more to send your flying body out.\n4. Press Home to fly back to your standing body and drop into your real room.\n\n### Choose a group channel\n\n1. Open the XR menu and choose World layers.\n2. Under Group channel, choose a group, or Public world for everything.\n3. Close the panel. Only that group's things, portals and people remain.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nAnyone can open XR Earth. Signing in adds your avatar, your groups, placing things, and stepping through portals as yourself.\n\nWith a group channel chosen, you see only what belongs to that group, and anything you place goes to that group.\n\nA pinch with your palm facing you is the headset's own menu gesture, not Rivr's. If that menu opens, choose Resume, or pinch and hold with your palm facing you again to close it.\n\nThe headset remembers your room. Zooming in where you stand claims that spot as where you are, and your standing body appears there for others.\n\nYour first flight measures your height, and your avatar takes it.\n\nYour body comes from the gender you declare under Settings, next to Your 3D avatar: a male body, a female body, or a neutral one when you say nothing. It flies flat and fast when you move through the air and hangs in a held pose when you stop. An avatar you upload replaces it.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- The Map is the flat version of this world.\n- Portals and rooms explains the rings you can walk through.\n- Physical things explains the tagged things you can scan and find here.\n- Who can see what decides which things appear to you." }, { "slug": "your-account-across-places", "title": "Your account across places", "summary": "Your account has a home. Other instances of Rivr can see you, work with you and hand you back, without a second sign-in.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What is federation?", "Why was I sent to another site when I opened a profile?", "Can I use one account everywhere?", "Why can I not turn on federation for my post?", "What is a persona?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "find-your-home", "title": "Find where your account is homed", "steps": [ "Open Profile under Manage.", "If you are taken to another site, that site is your home.", "If you stay where you are, this instance is your home." ] }, { "key": "federate-a-post", "title": "Send a post to other instances", "steps": [ "Start a post.", "Find the switch reading Federate this post.", "Switch it on and publish." ] }, { "key": "switch-persona", "title": "Act as a persona", "steps": [ "Open Profile under Manage.", "Find the Manage personas panel. It is drawn on your own profile only.", "Create a persona with a name, and a handle and description if you want them.", "Switch to it from the same panel. A note confirms the switch.", "Switch back to your main account the same way." ] } ], "terms": [ "instance", "federation", "persona", "visibility", "place" ], "related": [ "profile", "settings", "who-can-see-what", "ai", "instances-of-rivr", "portals-and-rooms" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-22", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nRivr is not one website. It is many, and they talk to each other.\n\nYour account lives on one of them. That one is your home. The others can see you, work with you and send you back to your home when you need to sign something.\n\n## What you see\n\nMost of the time you see nothing. Federation is the part that is meant to be invisible.\n\nYou notice it in four places.\n\nOpening the profile of somebody homed elsewhere tells you their canonical profile lives on that instance, and takes you there.\n\nOpening your own profile when your account is homed elsewhere takes you to your home.\n\nSearching returns matches from other instances alongside your own, with anything you can already see left out so nothing appears twice.\n\nThe post composer carries a switch reading Federate this post.\n\nSettings carries a Federation tab controlling whether this account can send content to trusted peers.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Find out which instance holds your account. See Find where your account is homed.\n- Push a post out beyond this instance. See Send a post to other instances.\n- Act under a different name. See Act as a persona.\n\n## How to\n\n### Find where your account is homed\n\n1. Open Profile under Manage.\n2. If you are taken to another site, that site is your home.\n3. If you stay where you are, this instance is your home.\n\n### Send a post to other instances\n\n1. Start a post.\n2. Find the switch reading Federate this post.\n3. Switch it on and publish.\n\nThe switch is available only when your account owns a hosted node on this deployment, and only when the post is public or scoped to a place. A post restricted to named groups or named people cannot be federated, and the composer says so.\n\n### Act as a persona\n\n1. Open Profile under Manage.\n2. Find the Manage personas panel. It is drawn on your own profile only.\n3. Create a persona with a name, and a handle and description if you want them.\n4. Switch to it from the same panel. A note confirms the switch.\n5. Switch back to your main account the same way.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nA persona is an alternate identity you can post under. It belongs to you, and you can switch between it and your main account.\n\nThe word persona is used for a second thing on a profile, which is unrelated. That one is a card of readings such as Gene Keys and Human Design. It is a description of you, not an identity you act as.\n\nSomebody viewing a persona's profile sees a small chip beside the name telling them it is a persona.\n\nSigning up, resetting a password and recovering an account are always handled by the identity authority, whatever instance you are on.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Instances of Rivr names the instances that are live today.\n- Profile is where personas are made and switched.\n- Settings carries the Federation tab.\n- Who can see what explains why a restricted post cannot federate." }, { "slug": "your-first-day", "title": "Your first day", "summary": "A short list of the things worth doing the first time you sign in, in the order that makes the rest make sense.", "surface": null, "audience": [ "person", "assistant" ], "answers": [ "What should I do first?", "How do I set up my profile?", "How do I find my neighbourhood?", "How do I get started?" ], "tasks": [ { "key": "fill-in-your-profile", "title": "Fill in your profile", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Stay on the Account tab.", "Fill in Name, Username, Tagline and Bio.", "Add your skills under Skills, one at a time.", "Add a picture under Profile Photos.", "Press Save Changes at the bottom." ] }, { "key": "set-your-home-place", "title": "Set your home place", "steps": [ "Open Settings under Account.", "Stay on the Account tab and find Home Locale.", "Choose your place from the list.", "Press Save Changes at the bottom.", "Press the pill in the bar at the top and choose the same place, so the pages you read are filtered to it." ] }, { "key": "join-a-group", "title": "Join a group", "steps": [ "Open Groups under Manage.", "Read the panel headed Discover groups. It lists the groups in your place you have not joined.", "Type a word in the search box to narrow the list.", "Press a group to open it.", "Press the join button at the top right. Its wording depends on the group. It may read Join Group, Apply to Join, Request Pending or Invite Required." ] }, { "key": "make-your-first-post", "title": "Make your first post", "steps": [ "Press the plus button in the bar at the top.", "Stay on the Post tab.", "Write your post.", "Choose who it is for. Leave it as it is for everyone, or press the visibility control and name the places, groups or people who should see it.", "Press the button that publishes it. You land on the post you made." ] } ], "terms": [ "place", "group", "persona", "visibility" ], "related": [ "what-the-hub-is", "choosing-your-places", "profile", "making-things" ], "nav": [], "hubPages": [], "layout": "standard", "updated": "2026-09-17", "markdown": "## What this is\n\nRivr makes more sense once it knows two things about you. Where you are, and who you are.\n\nThis page is the shortest path to both. It takes one sitting.\n\n## What you see\n\nOn your first visit the Dashboard greets you by name and offers a pill that asks whether you have something to share today.\n\nMost panels are empty and say so in a sentence. Today's tasks has nothing to tick. My groups' jobs tells you it has no work because you are in no groups. The conditions panel has no weather because it does not know where you are.\n\nThe menu on the left is already complete. My Places and My Groups are the only two headings that start empty.\n\n## What you can do here\n\n- Put your name, picture and a line about yourself on your profile. See Fill in your profile.\n- Tell the hub where you live. See Set your home place.\n- Join a group so the group panels have something to show. See Join a group.\n- Share something. See Make your first post.\n\n## How to\n\n### Fill in your profile\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Stay on the Account tab.\n3. Fill in Name, Username, Tagline and Bio.\n4. Add your skills under Skills, one at a time.\n5. Add a picture under Profile Photos.\n6. Press Save Changes at the bottom.\n\n### Set your home place\n\n1. Open Settings under Account.\n2. Stay on the Account tab and find Home Locale.\n3. Choose your place from the list.\n4. Press Save Changes at the bottom.\n5. Press the pill in the bar at the top and choose the same place, so the pages you read are filtered to it.\n\n### Join a group\n\n1. Open Groups under Manage.\n2. Read the panel headed Discover groups. It lists the groups in your place you have not joined.\n3. Type a word in the search box to narrow the list.\n4. Press a group to open it.\n5. Press the join button at the top right. Its wording depends on the group. It may read Join Group, Apply to Join, Request Pending or Invite Required.\n\n### Make your first post\n\n1. Press the plus button in the bar at the top.\n2. Stay on the Post tab.\n3. Write your post.\n4. Choose who it is for. Leave it as it is for everyone, or press the visibility control and name the places, groups or people who should see it.\n5. Press the button that publishes it. You land on the post you made.\n\n## What changes for you\n\nYour home place is what the weather panel and the feed panels fall back to when you have not filtered to a place.\n\nUntil you join a group you cannot post inside one, claim its work, or vote in it.\n\nEverything you make is visible to everyone unless you narrow it. Who can see what explains the choices.\n\n## Where this connects\n\n- Profile is the page everything you fill in ends up on.\n- Making things explains everything the plus button can make.\n- Who can see what explains the visibility choices in the composer." } ], "glossary": [ { "term": "admin", "definition": "Somebody who steers a group. An admin can open its settings and its treasury, promote and demote members, post jobs, create subgroups and moderate its feed.", "usedBy": [ "broadcast", "broadcast-planner", "group-treasury", "groups", "joining-and-leaving", "members-and-roles", "requests-to-join", "who-can-see-what" ] }, { "term": "agreement", "definition": "A sentence you saved under Flow Planning. It says that when something happens, something else should follow, and it runs itself from then on.", "usedBy": [ "flow-planning" ] }, { "term": "assistant", "definition": "The conversational helper under AI. It can act in Rivr for you, one confirmed action at a time.", "usedBy": [ "ai" ] }, { "term": "badge", "definition": "A mark a group issues to somebody, recording something they did or something they are trusted with.", "usedBy": [ "flow-planning" ] }, { "term": "ballot", "definition": "One open question you can answer. Every proposal and every poll carries one.", "usedBy": [ "having-a-say", "voice" ] }, { "term": "bioregion", "definition": "A region defined by nature rather than by borders. A watershed, an ecoregion or a cultural bioregion. Places sit inside them, and the map can draw their outlines.", "usedBy": [ "locale-hub", "map" ] }, { "term": "booking", "definition": "A claim on one of your offerings that carries a time slot. A claim with no time slot is an order instead.", "usedBy": [ "calendar", "listings" ] }, { "term": "bridge", "definition": "A link between an outside messenger and your Rivr inbox. Once bridged, that network appears as its own tab under Messages.", "usedBy": [ "connected-services", "getting-a-key" ] }, { "term": "claim", "definition": "Putting your name on a job so that you are the one doing it.", "usedBy": [ "gigs" ] }, { "term": "connection", "definition": "An account you hold elsewhere and have linked to Rivr, so the two can read from or write to each other.", "usedBy": [ "broadcast-planner", "connected-services", "getting-a-key" ] }, { "term": "document", "definition": "A file you wrote or uploaded. Yours sit under Docs, and a group's sit in its vault.", "usedBy": [ "canvas", "connected-services", "docs", "support", "who-can-see-what" ] }, { "term": "event", "definition": "A gathering with a time. People say whether they are going, and some events sell tickets.", "usedBy": [ "builder", "calendar", "events", "making-things", "messages" ] }, { "term": "federation", "definition": "The way separate Rivr sites see each other. Your account lives on one of them and the others can work with you without a second sign-in.", "usedBy": [ "instances-of-rivr", "your-account-across-places" ] }, { "term": "feed", "definition": "Any list of things in the hub. It scrolls inside its own panel and loads more as you reach the bottom.", "usedBy": [ "broadcast", "broadcast-planner", "connected-services", "explore", "feeds-and-views", "finding-things", "getting-a-key", "global-hub", "group-hub", "locale-hub", "notifications", "switching-places" ] }, { "term": "gig", "definition": "A piece of paid or volunteer work somebody has posted, listed under Gigs and claimable by whoever wants it.", "usedBy": [ "gigs" ] }, { "term": "Global Hub", "definition": "A place hub with no place. It shows every place at once, and it is the front page for anyone not signed in.", "usedBy": [ "choosing-your-places", "global-hub", "instances-of-rivr", "switching-places" ] }, { "term": "group", "definition": "A set of people who do something together. A household, an organization, a ring or a family. Each one has its own page of tabs.", "usedBy": [ "broadcast", "broadcast-planner", "builder", "docs", "events", "flow-planning", "group-hub", "group-treasury", "groups", "having-a-say", "joining-and-leaving", "making-things", "members-and-roles", "messages", "organization-tree", "physical-things", "portals-and-rooms", "requests-to-join", "search", "subgroups-and-projects", "voice", "what-the-hub-is", "who-can-see-what", "xr-earth", "your-first-day" ] }, { "term": "hub page", "definition": "A page built from panels you can move, resize, minimize, hide and bring back. Most pages in the hub are one.", "usedBy": [ "broadcast-planner", "dashboard", "hubs-and-panels", "what-the-hub-is" ] }, { "term": "instance", "definition": "One Rivr site. There are many, they federate with each other, and your account is homed on one of them.", "usedBy": [ "instances-of-rivr", "portals-and-rooms", "your-account-across-places" ] }, { "term": "issue", "definition": "Something raised inside a group for discussion, before anybody votes. It carries comments rather than votes.", "usedBy": [ "having-a-say", "voice" ] }, { "term": "job", "definition": "A named piece of work with a description, a way of being paid, and a number of places for people to claim.", "usedBy": [ "calendar", "dashboard", "gigs", "subgroups-and-projects" ] }, { "term": "ledger", "definition": "The running record of everything that has happened in Rivr. An agreement watches it and acts when what it is waiting for appears.", "usedBy": [ "flow-planning" ] }, { "term": "listing", "definition": "Something offered for sale or for booking. Yours are managed under Listings and bought under Marketplace.", "usedBy": [ "builder", "listings", "making-things", "marketplace", "saved", "search" ] }, { "term": "member", "definition": "Somebody who belongs to a group. A member can read its members-only tabs, post in its feed, add to its market and use its chat.", "usedBy": [ "groups", "joining-and-leaving", "members-and-roles", "people", "requests-to-join", "who-can-see-what" ] }, { "term": "membership", "definition": "A paid tier on your own account. Which tier you hold decides whether you can create paid events, paid listings and organizations.", "usedBy": [ "profile", "settings" ] }, { "term": "notification", "definition": "A record that somebody did something involving you. They gather behind the bell in the bar at the top.", "usedBy": [ "finding-things", "notifications" ] }, { "term": "offering", "definition": "Something you provide. A skill, a product, a service, a trip, a ticket, a voucher, data, a grant round, a gift or a bounty.", "usedBy": [ "builder", "listings", "making-things", "marketplace" ] }, { "term": "order", "definition": "A claim on one of your offerings that carries no time slot. A claim with a time slot is a booking instead.", "usedBy": [ "listings", "marketplace", "money" ] }, { "term": "panel", "definition": "One card on a hub page, answering one question. Panels are what a hub page is built from.", "usedBy": [ "broadcast-planner", "calendar", "canvas", "dashboard", "events", "explore", "feeds-and-views", "getting-a-key", "group-hub", "hubs-and-panels", "locale-hub", "people", "profile", "saved", "search", "subgroups-and-projects", "support", "what-the-hub-is" ] }, { "term": "payout", "definition": "Moving money out of a connected account and into your bank. One route takes a few days. The other is instant, where your account supports it.", "usedBy": [ "money", "wallet" ] }, { "term": "persona", "definition": "An alternate identity you can post under. It belongs to you and you switch to it and back from your own profile. The word is also used for a card of readings on a profile, which is a description rather than an identity.", "usedBy": [ "ai", "profile", "settings", "who-can-see-what", "your-account-across-places", "your-first-day" ] }, { "term": "place", "definition": "A real area you can belong to. A town, a watershed, a bioregion or a council. Choosing one filters most of the hub.", "usedBy": [ "builder", "choosing-your-places", "dashboard", "events", "explore", "feeds-and-views", "finding-things", "global-hub", "groups", "locale-hub", "making-things", "map", "people", "search", "settings", "switching-places", "what-the-hub-is", "who-can-see-what", "xr-earth", "your-account-across-places", "your-first-day" ] }, { "term": "place hub", "definition": "The front page of one place, holding its local feed, a map of what is live, and where the place sits.", "usedBy": [ "choosing-your-places", "global-hub", "locale-hub", "switching-places" ] }, { "term": "points", "definition": "A record of contribution. Some jobs pay in points rather than in money.", "usedBy": [ "gigs", "money", "wallet" ] }, { "term": "poll", "definition": "A question with a set of answers, raised inside a group. You answer it on that group's own page.", "usedBy": [ "having-a-say", "voice" ] }, { "term": "portal", "definition": "A ring standing at a place in XR Earth. Walking through it puts you in a room another instance hosts.", "usedBy": [ "instances-of-rivr", "portals-and-rooms", "xr-earth" ] }, { "term": "press", "definition": "A group's syndicated articles, news and media, gathered from the accounts it has connected.", "usedBy": [ "broadcast" ] }, { "term": "project", "definition": "A piece of work with jobs beneath it, a page of its own and a share of its group's money.", "usedBy": [ "builder", "gigs", "group-treasury", "making-things", "messages", "organization-tree", "subgroups-and-projects" ] }, { "term": "proposal", "definition": "A yes or no question raised inside a group. You answer Yes, No or Abstain.", "usedBy": [ "having-a-say", "voice" ] }, { "term": "proxy", "definition": "Your vote, handed to somebody you trust, for a named scope and for as long as you choose. You can take it back at any time.", "usedBy": [ "having-a-say", "voice" ] }, { "term": "quorum", "definition": "The minimum turnout a decision needs. It is set by whoever raised the decision, not by Rivr.", "usedBy": [ "having-a-say", "voice" ] }, { "term": "receipt", "definition": "The record of one purchase, with its status, its date, its totals and its payment details.", "usedBy": [ "listings", "marketplace", "money", "wallet" ] }, { "term": "recording", "definition": "A session recorded during an event, a project or a job. Recordings gather under Docs.", "usedBy": [ "docs" ] }, { "term": "room", "definition": "A small world an instance hosts, reached through a portal. Who may enter follows the room's own visibility.", "usedBy": [ "instances-of-rivr", "portals-and-rooms" ] }, { "term": "saved", "definition": "Something you bookmarked. Everything saved gathers on one page, sorted into categories for you.", "usedBy": [ "finding-things", "saved" ] }, { "term": "scope", "definition": "How much of a group's decision-making a proxy covers. Either the whole group, or one category of decision inside it.", "usedBy": [ "having-a-say", "voice" ] }, { "term": "shift", "definition": "A claimed job's deadline, shown on your calendar alongside events and bookings.", "usedBy": [ "calendar", "gigs" ] }, { "term": "sighting", "definition": "A record that somebody saw a physical thing at a place and a time. The newest sighting is where the thing stands on the map.", "usedBy": [ "physical-things" ] }, { "term": "stake", "definition": "A share of a group's profit. Each group allocates it from its own contribution figures.", "usedBy": [ "members-and-roles", "money", "wallet" ] }, { "term": "subgroup", "definition": "A group that lives inside another group, with its own page, its own members and its own tabs.", "usedBy": [ "group-hub", "groups", "organization-tree", "subgroups-and-projects" ] }, { "term": "tag", "definition": "The sticker, code or number a physical thing is recognised by. NFC, QR, or typed.", "usedBy": [ "physical-things" ] }, { "term": "Thanks", "definition": "A token people give each other for something done. It is counted separately from money, and a voucher holds Thanks until it is redeemed.", "usedBy": [ "dashboard", "flow-planning", "gigs", "marketplace", "money", "profile", "wallet" ] }, { "term": "thing", "definition": "A real object Rivr knows about through its tag, with a page, a place and its sightings.", "usedBy": [ "physical-things", "xr-earth" ] }, { "term": "thread", "definition": "One conversation inside Messages, between people or inside a group, a project or an event room.", "usedBy": [ "messages" ] }, { "term": "treasury", "definition": "A group's money, as opposed to yours. It sits behind the Treasury tab on a group's page and only its admins can see it.", "usedBy": [ "group-hub", "group-treasury", "money", "subgroups-and-projects", "wallet" ] }, { "term": "view", "definition": "How a list is drawn. Rows, cards or pictures.", "usedBy": [ "feeds-and-views" ] }, { "term": "visibility", "definition": "Who can see something you made. It is set per thing, and the words differ between a post, a document, your profile and a group's tabs.", "usedBy": [ "builder", "docs", "events", "group-hub", "making-things", "physical-things", "portals-and-rooms", "profile", "settings", "who-can-see-what", "xr-earth", "your-account-across-places", "your-first-day" ] }, { "term": "voucher", "definition": "An offering that holds Thanks until it is redeemed. Claiming one holds the Thanks. Redeeming it releases them.", "usedBy": [ "marketplace", "money" ] }, { "term": "wallet", "definition": "Your own money in Rivr, with its balances, its transactions and its payouts.", "usedBy": [ "group-treasury", "marketplace", "money", "wallet" ] } ] }