Familiar where it should be. Better where it matters.

Every message on Vronify.chat travels over a persistent WebSocket connection, which is why the median delivery time in Europe sits under 40 milliseconds. There is no polling delay and no refresh button. When someone types, you see it. When someone sends, it lands. That speed is not a vanity metric: it is what makes a text channel feel like a conversation instead of a message board.

Edits let you fix a typo or sharpen a point without deleting and reposting, so the thread of conversation stays intact. Replies quote the message you are answering, which means context survives even in a channel moving at hundreds of messages an hour. Reactions let twenty people agree without twenty near-identical messages. Read receipts tell you a message actually reached someone, which matters when you are coordinating something that has a deadline.

For conversations that deserve their own space, threads branch a tangent off the main channel so the side discussion can run as long as it needs to without burying everyone else. Pinned messages keep the rules, the schedule, or the announcement where newcomers will actually find it. Polls settle questions with a count instead of a shouting match. And bookmarks give you a private place to save the messages you will want again, without asking anyone's permission.

Expression scales with your community too. Custom emoji give your server its own vocabulary, and server tags let members show which communities they belong to. None of this costs anything, and none of it is gated behind a tier.

Where direct messages are different

One honest distinction is worth understanding before you rely on it. Direct messages are private: only the people in the conversation see them, and we don't read them. Community channels are deliberately visible to their community and its moderators, because a public space needs accountable moderation, and moderators cannot keep a space safe if the platform itself is blind to it. We think that split is the right one, and we would rather explain it plainly than pretend one label covers everything. What never changes in either place: we never sell data, never show ads, and never read private conversations.

When channels get busy

Fast channels create their own problems, so the tools to slow them down are built in. Slow mode puts a cooldown between messages per member, which turns a flood into a conversation during launches, drama, or raid attempts. Automated filters catch the obvious garbage before a human moderator ever has to see it. Both are configured per server by people you appointed, not by us. The moderation tools page covers the full kit.

The one to watch is the bot engine: automation that lives inside the platform instead of being bolted on by a third party. No bot to invite, no token to babysit, no stranger's server to trust with your community's data. It is one switch in your server settings, and it is close. Until it and the native apps arrive, everything works today in any modern browser, on any device, with one link.

The list above is what you get the moment you create a server. It is not the ceiling. The changelog keeps a public record of every release, and the blog explains the thinking behind the bigger ones. If speed is what you care about, read how we keep the whole thing fast on the performance page.

There is no template or white-label product underneath any of this. Vronify.chat was hand-written by a small team in the Netherlands, from zero lines of code to over 125.000, and it runs on hardware we own and tune ourselves. That is why features here tend to work the same way top to bottom: the people who built the messaging layer are the same people who built the moderation tools on top of it, and the same people who answer when something breaks.

On pricing, the promise is simple and it applies to everything on this page: core features are free forever. Optional extras for power users will come later, and there will be no surprise paywalls. We will not launch a feature as free and then quietly move it behind a tier. If a limitation exists, you will read about it here first, in plain language, like the privacy split above.