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Chat ​

Chat is where the Slipmat community comes together — during shows and between them. Messages appear in real time, so a chat feels like being in the room with everyone else.

Channels ​

Chat is organised into channels:

  • The lobby — the shared channel everyone is in.
  • Artist channels — each artist's own public channel.
  • Event channels — every scheduled show gets its own chat for the night. (Ad hoc shows use the artist's channel instead.)
  • Direct messages — private one-on-one conversations.
  • Private channels — channels you join by invitation.

You can have several channels open at once and switch between them.

Rich messages ​

Slipmat chat does more than plain text:

  • Links you paste get turned into tidy previews with a title and image.
  • Music links from streaming services are recognised and shown as a music preview, so pasting a track just works.
  • Images can be uploaded straight into the chat.
  • @mentions let you call out another person by name.

The text you type is always kept as-is — Slipmat only adds these previews around it.

Commands ​

You can type slash commands into the chat box. The everyday ones:

  • /help — list the commands available to you
  • /join <channel> — join (or create) a channel
  • /part — leave the current channel
  • /whois <name> — see information about another person in the channel

Artists and their moderators have additional commands for running a channel, such as setting the channel topic and moderating people (see below).

Direct messages ​

You can start a direct message with someone you're friends with. With people you're not friends with, a message goes through an invitation first, so nobody gets unwanted DMs. Your direct message opens as soon as you send your first message.

Keeping chat friendly ​

Slipmat gives artists and their crews the tools to keep their chats welcoming. Members with the moderate chat ability can mute, kick, or ban someone, and hide individual messages.

The community helps too: anyone can flag a message, and a message that gets flagged enough times is hidden automatically.

For artists: your voice and your embeds ​

  • Members set to post as the artist have their messages shown as the artist. Your private crew channel is the exception — there you always post as yourself.
  • Artists can share a read-only view of a chat, for embedding on a website or showing on a screen. A read-only view can watch the conversation but can't post.