How Avelune works

A shared space where people post honestly about what they're going through, tagged by topic (Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, and more). You can comment, react, and reply. Replies can go a few levels deep, and long threads collapse by default so they stay easy to follow. Posts, Question and Talk sit as three tabs at the top of the Feed.

Any post or reply can be made anonymous. Your username never shows, just "Anonymous." Mention someone with @username and they'll get notified and linked straight to their profile.

To ask a question with set answers, open More options in the composer and tap Make it a poll. A poll has 2 to 10 answers and stays open for 1, 3 or 7 days.

Tap Follow on someone's profile when you want to keep up with them. Pick Following in the Feed's filters to see only their posts, and find everyone you follow under You, then Following. They get a notification that you followed them, unless they've turned those off.

One question a day for everyone, under Question at the top of the Feed. Your answer is a post, so people can react and reply to it. You can look back at earlier days' questions, and suggest one of your own.

Talk is the third tab at the top of the Feed. When you want someone to talk to, put up a card, anonymously if you like, and say what would help: someone to listen, advice, or a distraction. People who see it can say hi, and you answer whoever feels right, which opens a private chat just between the two of you. When you have a minute, you can say hi to someone else's card.

When listeners are around, the Talk page also has Talk to a listener. Listeners are members who volunteer to listen one to one. Ask, and one of them messages you when they're free, with a notification so you know. They are not professionals, so in a crisis the lines on the Resources page come first.

An always-on, real-time chat space, closer to a group hangout than the Feed's post-and-reply format. Pick a room, see who's around, and just talk. Reactions, replies, and @mentions all work here too.

On mobile, press and hold a message to react, reply, report it, or (for room hosts) pin/hide it. As a light anti-spam gate, some rooms ask for an account to be a little established before it can post: most ask for 2 hours, a few ask for a day, and some let you post straight away. The room tells you when you can.

A private space that's yours alone: other members never see it, and the admin never reads it. Daily mood check-ins build a streak, a personal journal for anything you want to write down, and a weekly view of your own patterns over time. Missed a day? You can log a past check-in from your history, marked as logged later.

Private, 1-on-1 or group (up to 20 people) conversations. Delete a chat and it stays out of your inbox, even if they message again, until you message them; a stronger "end & wipe" option permanently deletes the whole conversation for both sides, once both people agree to it.

The You tab is your own record: your posts, replies and reactions, the posts you saved or dismissed, the people you follow, anything of yours that was removed and why, and the feedback and reports you've sent, with any replies from the admin.

Posting, commenting, or replying "anonymously" means no other member can ever trace it back to your account. It's not a display trick, the underlying data itself is masked for everyone but you.

Want to go a step further? Settings → Privacy has a toggle to hide your own anonymous posts and replies from your own account too, so they don't show in your You tab or trigger a notification, even for you. You'd have to remember and search for one to find it again.

You'll hear about comments, reactions, mentions, new followers, new messages, and replies on your posts. Each one can be turned off individually in Settings → Notifications. Anonymous activity never reveals who did it, only that it happened.

To get a note on your phone or computer when Avelune isn't open, turn on Notifications on this device in Settings → Notifications. It never shows what anyone wrote or who they are.

Mute someone to quietly stop seeing their posts (they're never told), block them to also cut off messaging, or report a post, comment or message that breaks the rules. If you're worried about someone rather than reporting them, choose I'm worried about them in the report form: it goes to the admin only, and they're never told who sent it.

Settings → Privacy has two tools for a shared phone or laptop. Quick exit adds an Exit button to every page that swaps the tab to an ordinary page straight away (pressing Escape twice does the same). Discreet mode makes the tab say "Notes" and can lock Avelune with a passcode.

See Trust & Safety for the full rundown, and Resources if you or someone you know needs immediate help.