Get started with TzChat.org and Riot

Register for a tzchat.org account.

Visit https://riot.tzchat.org and click Create Account.

Fill in the “Create your account” form. Choose your username carefully as others can see it and you will not be able to change it.1 Entering an email address2 is optional but if you forget your password the only way to recover it is via email. Click the Register button.

If you provided an email address above, check for a welcome message and follow the verification link provided there.

Login via Riot

Visit https://riot.tzchat.org and click Sign In. Enter your username3 and password and click Sign In (again).

Join rooms

Once signed in, click the + next to ROOMS in the left pane to see a directory of some major rooms. Click a room name of interest, then click the Join the discussion button to join that room.

Here are some major rooms.

  • Tezos — general Tezos chat.
  • Tech ‐ tech/dev chat, bridged to #tezos on freenode IRC (low traffic)
  • Tezos Trader — Tezos trading (bulls with invites only)
  • Tezos Media — media links of interest, with some evaluation

You can use the !rooms command in several of those rooms to get a longer list from the bot.

A few rooms require an invitation to join. If interested, ask for an invitation after introducing yourself in a public room.

Get help

See the FAQ pages for TzChat and Riot on this site.

You can also ask for help in any of the rooms above and someone should steer you in the right direction.

  1. You can, however, change your “display name” later, which is the most prominent name that others see about your account. ↩︎

  2. In order to use email to recover your password you must use a different email address for each tzchat.org account you create. ↩︎

  3. If you have any trouble signing in, or are signing into Riot on a mobile or desktop app, try using your full username of the form @myusername:tzchat.org (rather than just myusername). Don’t forget the @. ↩︎