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Make it look like your community.
Profiles, per-server nicknames, themes, accent colors, role styles, and accessibility settings. Customization to the max, and none of it paywalled.
Every layer you can make yours.
Six kinds of customization, built into every account and every server from day one.
Rich profiles
Avatars, banners, bios, and statuses. Your profile is a place, not a username with a number. Fill it in once and it travels with you into every community you join.
Per-server identity
Be QueMac in your gaming server and Q in your study group. Nicknames are set per server, the way real names work: the same person, introduced differently in different rooms.
Themes and accents
Pick your theme and accent color once and the whole app follows: buttons, highlights, selection states, all of it. Your client, your palette, and only you see it.
Role styles
Give roles solid colors or gradients so the people who keep the place running are visible at a glance. A gradient on a moderator's name says more than a badge ever could.
Accessibility built in
Text sizing, contrast, and reduced motion are settings, not afterthoughts. Everyone should be comfortable in their own community, whatever their eyes and hands prefer.
No paywalls
None of this sits behind a subscription. Customization is how a community becomes yours, so it is included. Core features stay free forever, with no surprise paywalls.
How identity works here.
Three layers, each with a clear owner. Once you see them, everything in the settings makes sense.
Most chat platforms blur who controls what. Your name half belongs to the platform, your look half belongs to whatever server you are standing in, and half your appearance settings turn out to be upsells. We built customization on Vronify.chat around three layers with clean boundaries.
Layer one: your account profile
Your profile belongs to your account, and your account belongs to you. Avatar, banner, bio, and status live at the account level and follow you into every server. Change your avatar once and it changes everywhere. This is the same principle behind account ownership on the rest of the platform: your identity is yours, not something a server admin can confiscate. Even a ban only stops participation; it never takes your profile or your history away from you.
Layer two: your identity inside each server
On top of the account profile sits the per-server nickname. Each community can know you by a different name, because that is how real life works: you are one person, introduced differently at work, at home, and among friends. Set a nickname in one server and no other server ever sees it. Your underlying profile stays intact underneath, so people who click through to your profile card still find the real you.
Layer three: how the app looks to you
Themes, accent colors, text sizing, contrast, and motion settings are client-side. They change what you see and nothing else. Nobody else is affected by your accent color, and no server owner can force a theme on your screen. The reverse is also true: shared styling, like role colors and gradients, is set by the community and looks the same for everyone, because it carries meaning. A moderator's gradient name has to be recognizable to every member, or it is decoration instead of information.
Why the boundaries matter
Clean layers mean no surprises. You never have to wonder whether changing a setting will embarrass you in another server, and owners never have to wonder whether members can restyle the community out from under them. Personal stays personal, shared stays shared. That single rule is behind almost every decision on this page.
Make it yours in four steps.
All of this happens in your settings, in the browser, in a few minutes. Nothing to install, nothing to pay.
Pick a theme and an accent
Open your appearance settings and choose the theme that suits your screen and your taste, then pick an accent color. The accent runs through the whole interface: buttons, links, highlights, active states. Two people in the same server can be looking at completely different palettes, and both are right.
Build your profile
Upload an avatar, add a banner, write a bio, and set a status. This is what people see when they click your name anywhere on the platform, so make it a place worth visiting. A good bio saves you from re-introducing yourself in every new community.
Set nicknames where you need them
In any server where your account name does not fit, set a per-server nickname. Use your handle in the gaming server, your first name in the study group, your project alias in the open-source community. Each one is scoped to its server and invisible everywhere else.
Tune accessibility to your comfort
Adjust text sizing if the default is too small, raise contrast if colors wash out on your display, and switch on reduced motion if animation distracts or bothers you. These settings apply instantly and stick with your account. Comfort is not a premium feature.
Who controls what.
Members style themselves. Owners style the community. Neither can override the other.
What every member controls
- Their profile: avatar, banner, bio, and status, account-wide
- A nickname in each server they belong to
- Theme and accent color for their own client
- Text sizing, contrast, and reduced motion
- Their own data: export it any time, or delete their account, which anonymizes it
What server owners control
- Role names and role styles, in solid colors or gradients, via roles and permissions
- Custom emoji and server tags that give the community its own vocabulary
- Categories and channel structure, so the server reads the way it should
- Pinned messages that keep the important things visible
- Soon: the built-in bot engine, renamed and reskinned to feel like the server's own
The line between the two columns is deliberate. A server owner shapes the shared space: roles, emoji, tags, structure. A member shapes their own presence and their own screen. Owners cannot repaint your client, and members cannot restyle the server. If you run a community and want to go deeper on the owner side, the owner handbook and the create a server guide walk through all of it.
Accessibility is customization too.
The most important appearance settings are the ones that decide whether someone can use the app at all.
We treat accessibility settings as first-class customization, in the same settings area as themes and accents, because for a lot of people they are the settings that matter most. There are three you should know about.
Text sizing
If the default text is too small, make it bigger. The layout is built to hold up when text scales, so growing the type does not break the interface into overlapping fragments. And because Vronify.chat is browser-first with nothing to install, your browser's own zoom works on top of our text sizing. You get two independent dials instead of one, and they compose cleanly.
Contrast
Low-contrast interfaces look sleek in screenshots and fail people on real screens: sunlight, cheap panels, aging eyes, color-vision differences. Our contrast setting sharpens the difference between text and background so nothing important sits in a wash of soft gray. If you have ever leaned toward a monitor to read a timestamp, this setting is for you.
Reduced motion
Animation is a taste, and for some people a genuine problem: motion can be distracting at best and physically uncomfortable at worst. With reduced motion on, the interface stops moving and simply changes state. You lose nothing functional. This is an honest trade-off we want you to know about: the app is a little less lively with motion off, and that is exactly the point. Prefer it? Keep it. Everything works identically.
What we still want to improve
Accessibility is never finished. Screen sizes, input methods, and needs keep changing, and settings that seem sufficient today will not be tomorrow. If something about the interface fights you, tell us through support. Reports like that regularly turn into settings, and they help far more people than the one who wrote in.
None of it is a revenue lever.
On many platforms, customization is the upsell. Here it is just part of the product.
The customization tax, and why we skip it.
Chat platforms learned to charge for identity. We think that gets the incentives backwards.
We are a small team in the Netherlands and we wrote this platform ourselves, from 0 to over 125.000 lines of code, with no template underneath. That means nobody upstream decides which features get fenced off for monetization. See the full comparison for how this philosophy runs through the rest of the product.
Questions about customization.
Do other people see my theme and accent color?
No. Themes, accents, text sizing, contrast, and motion settings only change your own client. Everyone in a server can run a different look, and nobody can tell. The only styling other people see is the shared kind: role colors and gradients, custom emoji, server tags, and your profile itself.
Can I use a different name in every server?
Yes. Nicknames are set per server, and each one is visible only inside the server it belongs to. Your account profile, with your avatar, banner, bio, and status, stays consistent underneath, so people can always find the real you behind the nickname.
Is any of this paid?
No. Every customization feature on this page is included with every free account and every server. Core features stay free forever. We may offer optional extras for power users later, but there are no surprise paywalls, and we will not move things you already use behind one.
Who decides how role names look?
The server's owner and whoever they trust with role management, through roles and permissions. Role styles are shared styling: they look the same to every member, because their whole job is to make moderators and notable groups recognizable at a glance. Owners can choose a solid color or a gradient per role.
Will I be able to customize the bot?
Yes, when it arrives. The built-in bot engine is coming soon, and server owners will be able to rename it and give it its own avatar, banner, status, and bio, so to your members it feels like your server's bot rather than ours. Watch the changelog for the launch.
What happens to my profile if a server bans me?
Nothing. A ban only stops participation in that server. You keep your account, your profile, every message you ever sent, and the DMs you received, unless the sender removed them. Your identity is not something a server admin can take from you. Read more on the account ownership page.
Is my customization data used for advertising?
No. There are no ads to target and no advertisers to sell to: Vronify.chat runs with 0 trackers, ads, or data brokers. We never sell data and never read private conversations; your DMs are private, so they stay between the people in the conversation. The full picture is on our privacy page.
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.
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