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Questions, answered.
The things people ask us most, in plain language and grouped by topic. Every answer here is a promise we intend to keep, not marketing copy. If your question is not on this page, the support page is the fastest way to reach a human.
Find your question.
Six topics cover almost everything we get asked. Jump straight to the one you came for.
Your account and your data
What a ban actually means, how to delete your account, and how to take a copy of your data with you.
Jump to answersPrivacy and security
Which conversations are private, where your data physically lives, and what we will never do with it.
Jump to answersGetting started
Creating a server, inviting people with one link, moving an existing community over, and how big a server can get.
Jump to answersFeatures and apps
What the platform can do today, what the bot engine will add, and when mobile and desktop apps arrive.
Jump to answersPricing
What free means here, what the optional extras will and will not be, and why nothing you use today moves behind a paywall.
Jump to answersHelp and contact
Reporting bugs, reaching a real person, checking system status, and the right channel for security issues.
Jump to answersYour account and your data.
The account is yours. The messages are yours. Nothing about moderation, bans, or leaving changes that.
What actually happens when someone gets banned?
A banned account can no longer send messages or join communities. That is the entire punishment. You keep access to your account, every message you ever sent, and the DMs you received, unless the sender has removed them. You can export your data or delete your account at any point, ban or no ban. Most platforms treat a ban as confiscation: your history, your conversations, and your identity vanish along with your posting rights. We think that is wrong, and account ownership explains the full model.
Can I delete my account?
Yes, at any time. Deleting your account anonymizes it: your name and profile are removed, and the messages you already sent stay in their conversations attributed to a deleted, anonymous user, so other people's conversations stay intact. Channels keep only a bounded window of recent messages, so older content ages out over time. Export your data first if you want a copy, because anonymizing your account cannot be undone.
Can I export my data?
Yes, at any time, for any reason. You do not have to close your account to do it, you do not need to give a reason, and there is no cooling-off period designed to make you give up. Your data is not a hostage we hold to keep you here; if the platform ever stops deserving your community, you can take your history with you. The details of what an export contains are covered in the privacy policy.
What happens to a DM conversation if the other person deletes their side?
Ownership is symmetric. You keep the DMs you received unless the sender removed them, and the same applies in reverse: if the sender removes a message, it comes off your side too. Their words belong to them, your words belong to you. When you delete your account, your name and profile come off the messages you sent, so what remains is attributed to a deleted, anonymous user.
If a server bans me, do I lose anything outside that server?
No. A ban from one community removes you from that community and nothing else. Your account, your DMs, your other servers, and your message history are untouched. Moderation is scoped to the space being moderated; it is not a lever over your whole identity. Server owners get real moderation tools, and members get the guarantee that those tools stop at the server door.
What happens if I delete my whole account?
Deleting your account anonymizes it: your name and profile are removed, and the messages you already sent stay in their conversations attributed to a deleted, anonymous user, so other people's conversations are not torn up. Channels keep only a bounded window of recent messages, so older content ages out over time. We do not use your content for advertising, because there is no advertising. If you want a copy of your data, export before you delete, because anonymizing your account cannot be undone. The privacy policy spells out exactly what we store while your account exists.
Privacy and security.
Two rules govern everything: private conversations stay private, and public spaces stay moderatable. Here is exactly where the line sits.
Are my direct messages really private?
Yes. Direct messages are private: in the app, only the people in the conversation see them, and as a matter of policy our staff do not read private conversations. Connections are encrypted in transit with TLS, so nobody in between is reading along. Private DMs goes deeper into what that means in practice.
Why can moderators see community channels?
Because moderators need to be able to keep public spaces safe. In a channel with hundreds or thousands of members, moderation tools, automated filters, and the audit log have to be able to see content to act on it: you cannot remove spam you cannot read. This is an honest trade-off, and we would rather state it plainly than imply privacy that is not there. The line is simple: one-to-one conversations are private, shared spaces are governed. Privacy at Vronify lays out the reasoning in full.
Where is my data stored?
On hardware we own and operate in the Netherlands. Nothing is parked on a third party cloud, and nothing leaves our machines for analytics or advertising. Owning the hardware matters for more than privacy: it is why we can tune the whole stack ourselves and hold delivery times most rented infrastructure cannot. The privacy policy spells out exactly what we store and for how long.
Do you sell data, show ads, or use trackers?
No, no, and no. There are zero trackers, zero ads, and zero data brokers involved anywhere in the product or on this site. We never sell data and we never read private conversations. This is not restraint, it is structure: our income will come from optional extras that people choose to pay for, so there is no business reason for your attention or your data to be the product.
How do I report a security vulnerability?
Through the vulnerability disclosure process, please, rather than the general support queue. It exists so that reports about the platform's safety reach the people who can fix them fast and quietly, before details become public. If you are unsure whether what you found counts as a security issue, err on the side of the disclosure process; the security page describes how we defend the platform day to day.
What we do
- Keep every direct message private
- Keep all data on hardware we own in the Netherlands
- Let you export your data, or delete your account, any time
- Say plainly which spaces are private and which are moderated
What we never do
- Sell your data or hand it to data brokers
- Show ads or embed trackers, anywhere
- Read your private conversations
- Hold your data hostage to keep you from leaving
Getting started.
From nothing to a living community in four steps. No downloads for you, no downloads for your members.
Create your account
Open the app in your browser and sign up. There is nothing to install, which means the first minute of your community's life is not spent watching a progress bar.
Set up your server
Create channels, group them into categories, and define roles with the permissions you want. A sensible structure takes minutes, and nothing you decide now is locked in later.
Share one invite link
Every server gets a single link you can post anywhere. Members click it and join from any browser, on desktop or mobile, without installing anything or hunting for an app store.
Tune it as it grows
Slow mode calms a channel that moves too fast. Automated filters catch the obvious junk. The audit log shows you who changed what. Add structure when you need it, not before.
Can I move my community over from another platform?
Yes. Set up your channels and roles in minutes, share one invite link, and your members can join from any browser without installing anything. Migration tooling for importing structure from other platforms is on the roadmap. In the meantime, the practical playbook is simple: rebuild your channel layout by hand using the create a server guide, pin the invite link in your old home, and run both in parallel for a week or two so nobody feels evicted.
Does it run in the browser?
Yes. Vronify.chat is built for the web first, so your members join with a link and nothing to install. It works on desktop and mobile browsers, and stays fast on both. Browser-first is a deliberate choice for community builders: an invite that opens instantly converts far better than one that begins with "first, download our app."
How big can my server get?
A single server supports 50k+ members, and the platform is engineered so it does not get slower as you approach that: median message delivery in Europe stays under 40ms. You will not hit an invisible cliff where the platform quietly asks your community to shard itself. The performance page covers how we keep that true on hardware we own and tune ourselves.
Do I need moderators from day one?
Not on day one, but earlier than most owners expect. A good rule of thumb: the moment you can no longer read everything posted in a day, you need a second pair of eyes. Start by writing down your rules while the server is small, use roles and permissions to grant moderators only what they need, and lean on slow mode and automated filters to buy yourself time. The moderation guide and the owner handbook walk through the whole arc.
The numbers behind the answers.
Hand-written from zero to over 125.000 lines of code, with no template or white-label platform underneath. These are the results.
Features and apps.
What the platform does today, what is coming next, and the honest difference between the two.
What can Vronify.chat actually do today?
Real-time messaging with edits, replies, reactions, and read receipts. Threads for side conversations, polls for decisions, pinned messages for the things everyone keeps asking, and bookmarks for the things you want to find again. Voice channels for talking. For structure: roles and permissions, channel categories, per-server nicknames, custom emoji, and server tags. For safety: an audit log, slow mode, and automated filters. For discovery: an Explore page where public communities can be found. The features page covers each one, and chat and messaging goes deep on the core experience.
Is there a mobile or desktop app?
The browser version is available now, and it is a first-class experience on both desktop and mobile browsers, not a placeholder. A mobile app for iOS and Android and a desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux are coming soon. Until then, nothing is gated: everything the platform does, it does in the browser you already have. Watch the changelog for app announcements.
Can I add bots to my server?
Automation is coming through the built-in bot engine, which is in active development and not live yet. When it ships, you will flip one switch in your server settings to get welcome cards, auto-reactions, a message log, custom commands, reaction roles, leveling and XP, and tickets, with nothing to host and no token to babysit. We deliberately do not run third-party bot code inside servers: that is how we can promise no external party can read your channels or take your automation offline.
Does it have voice channels?
Yes. Voice channels are live today: persistent rooms members drop into and out of, straight from the browser, with no install. They sit in your channel list alongside text channels and respect the same roles and permissions. Voice channels has the details.
Can I customize how it looks and feels?
Yes, at both the personal and the community level. You get themes, appearance settings, and accessibility options for how the app looks to you, plus a custom profile for how you look to others. Communities get custom emoji, server tags, and per-server nicknames, so the same person can be "Sam" in one server and "DM Sam" in their tabletop group. The customization page shows the full range.
How do people find my community?
Two ways: your invite link, which you can post anywhere, and the Explore page, where public servers can be discovered by people browsing for a home. Making a server public is optional; private communities stay invisible. If you are building something worth showing off, featured communities is where we highlight the best of the platform, and discovery explains how the Explore page works.
Pricing, without the asterisks.
The short version: core features are free forever. The long version is below, because "free" has been abused enough that it deserves an explanation.
Creating an account, joining communities, and running a server are free. That includes the things a community actually depends on: messaging, voice channels, roles and permissions, moderation tools, the audit log. We do not cap your members and then charge to lift the cap, and we do not degrade the free experience over time to push you toward a subscription.
Later, we will offer optional extras for power users and large communities. Extras means additions, not ransoms: when something paid ships, nothing you already rely on moves behind it. No surprise paywalls is a design constraint we hold ourselves to, not a slogan.
We can afford this model because of how the platform is built. We run on hardware we own, we show no ads, and we never sell data, so the free tier is not secretly paid for with your privacy. You are not the product here; you are the reason the product exists.
Is Vronify.chat free?
Creating an account, joining communities, and running a server are free. We will offer optional extras for power users and large communities later, but core features stay free. No surprise paywalls.
What will the optional extras be?
We have not announced specifics, and we would rather say that than invent a list we might not keep. What we can commit to is the shape: extras will be aimed at power users and large communities, they will be optional in the real sense of the word, and they will be announced in the changelog before they ship. Whatever they turn out to be, the core stays free.
Will a feature I use today ever move behind a paywall?
No. That is what "no surprise paywalls" means: the deal you accept when you build your community here is the deal you keep. Your data is exportable at any time precisely so this promise has teeth; if we ever broke it, leaving would cost you nothing, and we know it.
When you need a human.
Four channels, each for a different kind of question. Picking the right one gets you a faster answer.
Get support
Questions, bug reports, and account issues. A real person answers within one business day, and "real person" is not a euphemism for a chatbot.
Go to supportSystem status
If something feels broken, check here first. It shows the live health of the platform, so you know in seconds whether it is us or your connection.
Check statusSecurity disclosure
Found a vulnerability? Use the dedicated disclosure process instead of the support queue, so it reaches the right people fast and stays out of public view.
Report responsiblyChangelog and blog
What shipped, what is coming, and why we build things the way we do. The changelog is where every release, including the bot engine, gets announced first.
Read the changelogHow do I report a bug or get help?
Head to the support page. It lists the fastest way to reach us for questions, bug reports, and account issues, and a real person answers within one business day. Security issues have their own disclosure process. When reporting a bug, include what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead; those three sentences usually cut the back-and-forth in half.
Who builds Vronify.chat?
A small team in the Netherlands, writing every line ourselves: the platform was hand-written from zero to over 125.000 lines of code, with no template or white-label product underneath, running on hardware we own and tune. Small and independent is a feature here, not a limitation; it is why the promises on this page are decisions we can actually make. More on the about page, and you can always reach us via contact.
My question is not on this page. Now what?
Ask us directly through support or contact, whichever fits. Genuinely useful questions tend to end up on this page, so asking helps the next person too. If your question is about rules of behavior on the platform, the community guidelines and the terms of service are the authoritative sources.
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.