For Server Owners
Create your server in under a minute.
No credit card, no install, no approval queue. Here is the whole process, start to finish, plus the decisions worth thinking about and the ones that can wait.
Before you hit Create.
Two minutes of context that makes the next five steps obvious.
A server on Vronify.chat is a home for your community: a set of text and voice channels, grouped into categories, run under roles and rules that you define. You own it. You decide who gets in, who moderates, what is allowed, and how it grows. Everything on this page is about getting that home standing quickly, without locking you into decisions you will regret.
You need exactly two things: a browser and a way to sign in. That is the whole list. Vronify.chat is browser-first, with nothing to install, for you and for everyone you invite. A mobile app for iOS and Android and a desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux are coming soon, but the browser version is the full product today, not a preview of one.
What it costs
Nothing. There is no credit card field anywhere in signup, because there is nothing to charge you for. Core features are free forever: channels, roles, voice, moderation tools, all of it. We plan optional extras for power users later, but there are no surprise paywalls, and creating or running a server will never be behind one.
No approval queue
Your server exists the moment you name it. There is no review process, no waiting period, and no minimum member count. You can create a server for three friends, a study group, or a community you hope will reach thousands. The platform supports 50k+ members in a single server, so you will not outgrow it.
What you are agreeing to
By creating a server you take on the owner's side of the deal: keeping your public spaces within the community guidelines. We give you the moderation tools to do that. One thing worth knowing up front: direct messages are private and we don't read them, but community channels are visible to their community and its moderators, precisely so that you and your moderators can keep public spaces safe. That trade-off is deliberate, and it is explained honestly on our privacy page.
The whole process, five steps.
From nothing to a live server with people in it. Most owners finish in under a minute.
Create your account
Sign up with an email address, or use Google or Discord sign in if that is faster. Takes about twenty seconds. Your account is yours from day one: you can export your data any time, and delete your account whenever you choose, which anonymizes it.
Create the server
Hit Create, give it a name, and drop in an icon if you have one ready. You can change all of it later, including the name, so do not stall here. A good-enough name today beats a perfect name next week.
Add channels and categories
Start with a welcome channel, a general channel, and a voice lounge. Add structure as the community tells you what it needs. Categories keep the sidebar readable once you pass a handful of channels, but three channels do not need them yet.
Set up roles
Make a moderator role before you need one. The role editor handles colors, permissions, and members in one place, so this takes a minute, not an afternoon. You do not have to assign it to anyone yet; having it ready is the point.
Share the invite link
Copy your invite link and post it wherever your people are. One link is all it takes. They join from the browser, nothing to install, no account gymnastics: click, sign up, and they are in your welcome channel.
Five decisions worth two minutes each.
None of these are permanent. All of them are easier to get roughly right the first time.
The name
Pick something people can say out loud and search for. If your community already exists somewhere else, use the name it already has; recognition beats cleverness. Names can be changed at any time in server settings, so treat this as a draft, not a tattoo. The only real mistake is spending twenty minutes on it.
The icon
The icon is how members find you in their server rail, so favor a simple, high-contrast image that survives being small. A logo, a single letter, a clear photo. You can create the server without one and add it later, and you can swap it whenever you like. If you have brand colors, matching the icon to them makes your server instantly recognizable in a crowded rail.
The channel structure
The strongest instinct to resist is building the full map of channels you imagine needing someday. Fifteen empty channels make a new server feel abandoned; three busy ones make it feel alive. Start with welcome, general, and a voice lounge. When a topic keeps taking over general, that is your signal to give it a channel. When you pass six or eight channels, group them into categories so the sidebar stays scannable. Structure should follow conversation, not predict it.
The roles
Roles do two jobs: they grant permissions, and they give people identity. Keep the permission side boring and conservative. Create a moderator role early with only what moderators actually need, and follow the rule of least permission: it is painless to grant more later and awkward to claw back. The identity side can be playful, with colored roles for regulars, contributors, or teams. Members can also set per-server nicknames, so people can be one name in your community and another elsewhere. The full model is covered in roles and permissions.
Public or private
Your server is reachable by invite link, and who gets that link is entirely up to you. Listing your server on the Explore page is a separate, deliberate choice, not something that happens to you. The honest trade-off: going public grows you faster and brings you strangers, which means moderation work arrives sooner. Most communities do better going public after the culture is set by a core group, not before. When you are ready, public servers explains how listing works, and the moderation guide prepares you for what comes with it.
Your server ships fully equipped.
Nothing to enable, nothing to add on. Every new server includes all of this on day one.
Real-time messaging
Edits, replies, reactions, and read receipts, delivered fast enough to feel like a conversation. See chat and messaging for the full picture.
Voice channels
Drop-in voice rooms that live alongside your text channels. A voice lounge is one of the three channels we suggest every new server starts with.
Roles and permissions
Colored, orderable roles with granular permissions, edited in one place. Identity for your members, guardrails for your channels.
Audit log
Every administrative action, recorded: who changed what, and when. The audit log is how owners trust their own staff without watching over them.
Slow mode and filters
Slow mode calms a channel that is moving too fast, and automated filters catch the obvious problems before a human has to. Both are per-channel and reversible.
Custom emoji and tags
Upload your community's own emoji and server tags. Inside jokes are culture, and culture is what keeps a server alive between events.
Pins, polls, threads, bookmarks
Pin the messages everyone should see, run polls when a decision needs a vote, branch busy discussions into threads, and bookmark what you want to find again.
Nicknames and profiles
Per-server nicknames, custom profiles, and themes and accessibility settings let members show up the way they want, in your server and their own.
Discovery, when you want it
The Explore page puts your server in front of people looking for one like it. Listing is your call, and you can make it whenever the community is ready.
The platform underneath your server.
Hand-written from 0 to over 125.000 lines of code, running on hardware we own and tune ourselves. Your server inherits all of it the moment it exists.
Your first week, honestly.
A short list of what pays off early, and an equally honest list of what does not.
Worth doing early
- Write three to five plain-language rules in your welcome channel, and pin them
- Create the moderator role, even if nobody holds it yet
- Invite a handful of people you know before you invite strangers
- Post first, every day, until others do it without you
- Skim the moderation guide before you need it, not during an incident
Fine to postpone
- A full category tree: structure earns its place after conversations exist
- Custom emoji and server tags: fun, but culture comes from people first
- Listing on Explore: go public once your core group has set the tone
- Studying server analytics: numbers need a few weeks to mean anything
- Automation: the built-in bot engine is coming soon, and there is nothing to pre-configure
That is genuinely all of it.
The rest is community, not configuration.
Everything above fits in your first hour, and most of it fits in your first minute. What actually decides whether a server thrives is not the setup; it is the weeks after. Since we watch a lot of communities get started, here are the failure patterns we see most, so you can skip them.
Too many channels on day one
The most common mistake, by a wide margin. An elaborate channel map signals ambition to you and emptiness to everyone else. A new member who opens twelve silent channels concludes the server is dead and leaves. The fix is almost embarrassingly simple: fewer channels, each with recent messages in it. Merge before you split.
Roles before people
Designing a ladder of ranks for members who do not exist yet is procrastination wearing a productivity costume. Two roles, owner and moderator, cover a young server completely. Add identity roles when real members ask for them, and permission roles when real problems require them.
Going public before the culture is set
Discovery is a firehose, and a firehose is only useful if there is something to fill. If strangers arrive before your core group has established what the server sounds like, the loudest newcomers define it instead of you. Get a week or two of real conversation on the books, then list on Explore.
Doing every job yourself
Owners who answer every question, moderate every dispute, and start every conversation burn out on a schedule you can almost predict. Give your first trustworthy regulars the moderator role earlier than feels natural. The audit log exists precisely so you can delegate without losing sight of what happens.
When you want to go deeper, the owner handbook collects short guides on moderation, roles, and growth. And if anything trips you up, support is a real person, not a bot.
Questions new owners actually ask.
Does creating a server cost anything?
No. Creating and running a server is free, with no credit card required at any point. Core features are free forever. We plan optional extras for power users later, but there are no surprise paywalls, and nothing described on this page will ever move behind one.
Do my members need to install anything?
No. Everyone joins from the browser with a single invite link. That matters more than it sounds: every install step loses people, and a one-click join loses almost nobody. A mobile app for iOS and Android and a desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux are coming soon, but nobody has to wait for them to participate fully.
Can I change the name, icon, or structure later?
Yes, all of it, at any time, from server settings. Names, icons, channels, categories, and roles are all editable after creation. This is why we tell owners not to agonize during setup: nothing you choose in your first minute is permanent.
How big can my server get?
A single server supports 50k+ members, on infrastructure that delivers messages in under 40ms median in Europe and has held 99.9% uptime across the last 12 months. You will not need to migrate, shard, or split your community as it grows. The performance page has the details.
Is my server public? Can strangers find it?
Only if you decide so. Your server is reachable through its invite link, and you control where that link goes. Appearing on the Explore page is a separate choice you make when the community is ready for strangers, and the moderation guide covers what to prepare before you do.
What about bots and automation?
The built-in bot engine is coming soon: welcome cards, auto-reactions, a message log, custom commands, reaction roles, leveling, and tickets, all native to the platform, with nothing to host and no third-party bot to trust. It is not live yet. When it ships, it appears as a switch in your server settings, so a server you create today is ready for it on day one.
Are the conversations in my server private?
Direct messages are private; we don't read them. Community channels are visible to their community and its moderators, precisely so that you and your moderators can keep public spaces safe. Either way, we never sell data, never show ads, and never read private conversations. Private DMs and privacy explain both sides of that line.
What happens to my data if I leave?
Your account belongs to you, not to any server, including your own. You can export your data any time, and deleting your account anonymizes it. Even a ban from a server only stops participation there; you keep your account, every message you ever sent, and the DMs you received, unless the sender removed them. Account ownership covers the whole promise.
Your community. Your rules. Your data.
Create a server, invite your people, and see what chat feels like when your account actually belongs to you.
Free to start. Live in under a minute. No install required.