Members guide

Communities on Arythmatic Connect live on their own subdomains (for example, askmeidentity.connect.arythmatic.cloud) and often on custom domains (community.askmeidentity.com). You join one of three ways:

1. From a direct link. If someone shares a workspace URL, click Sign up / Log in and authenticate. You’ll land in the community feed; clicking Join workspace on the banner adds you as a member.
2. From the public directory. If you visit connect.arythmatic.cloud, the Discover section lists public communities. Click one to land on its public feed; the same join banner appears there.
3. By invitation. Admins can email invitations through Auth0. You’ll receive a magic link that drops you straight into the community once you finish sign-up.

Some workspaces require an explicit join approval. In that case the banner shows Request to join instead, and an admin will approve or deny. Paid workspaces show a price tile — see Paid channels & subscriptions.

On desktop you’ll see three vertical panes:

• The rail on the far left — workspace switcher (the icons), Home, and Support at the bottom. Click any workspace icon to switch.
• The sidebar — Feed, Messages (DMs), Leaderboard, then the list of channels you belong to, then a Settings menu at the bottom (Members, Manage members, and admin entries if you have access).
• The main pane — whatever you clicked: a channel chat, the feed, an article, a poll, etc.

On mobile the rail and sidebar collapse into a single drawer; tap the menu icon in the top-left to open it.

Channels are conversation rooms. Four flavours:

• Public auto-join. The default. Every workspace member sees it in their sidebar and can post.
• Public opt-in. Listed in Browse channels but you’re not auto-added — click Join from there to add it to your sidebar.
• Private. Invite-only. Only people with explicit access see it.
• Paid. Public-discoverable but requires an active subscription to enter. See Paid channels & subscriptions.

To find more channels, scroll the sidebar to Browse channels. The search bar there filters by name; clicking a row joins (or starts the subscription flow for paid channels).

In any channel, the composer at the bottom accepts plain text, Markdown, and @mentions. While you’re typing:

• @name opens an autocomplete dropdown — pick someone to mention them; they’ll get a notification.
• **bold**, *italic*, ~~strike~~, `code`, and block code (triple backticks) all render.
• Tables work with the standard pipe syntax (| col | col |).
• Drag-and-drop a file (or click the paperclip) to attach an image, PDF, or video.
• Hit Enter to send. Shift+Enter for a newline.

To edit or delete your own message, hover it and click the menu (⋯) at the right. To react, hover and click the smiley — pick any emoji. To start a thread, click Reply in thread; threads have their own side panel and keep main-channel noise down.

The Feed (top of the sidebar) is a Slack-meets-LinkedIn timeline for the workspace. Anything posted here is workspace-wide, not channel-specific.

• Posting. Click the composer at the top of the Feed, type, optionally pick a post type (Update, Announcement, Celebration), and send.
• Reactions. Hover any post and pick from the named reactions (Like, Love, Celebrate, Insightful, Funny).
• Comments. Top-level only for now; threading is on the roadmap.
• Bookmarks. Save a post for later via the bookmark icon; your saved list lives at Bookmarks in the sidebar.

Articles are long-form posts with a cover image, a Markdown body, an optional excerpt, tags, and a published date. They’re tab-separated from regular feed posts and indexed for search.

• Reading. Open an article from the Feed → Articles tab, or share a direct link (/w/<slug>/articles/<id>). Public-workspace articles are server-rendered and indexable by Google.
• Writing. Click New article in the composer. The full-page editor auto-saves as a draft on every keystroke. When ready, hitPublish; you can also schedule it for the future.
• Editing. Open your own article and click Edit (top-right). The same auto-save flow applies. Reactions, comments, and view counts all stay intact.
• Reading-time + word-count chips appear next to the byline so readers can decide before diving in.

Questions are the StackOverflow-style surface — a question plus one or more answers, with the asker (or moderator) able to accept the best answer.

• Asking. Click New question from the composer. Title + body + optional tags + optional bounty points.
• Answering. Open any question and click Add answer. Answers are sorted by reactions and acceptance status.
• Accepting. The asker (or a moderator) clicks the checkmark next to an answer. Accepted answers float to the top and the answerer gets gamification points.
• Closing. When you’ve gotten what you need, you can close the question — new answers will be rejected.

Polls are quick yes/no or multiple-choice questions. They can live in a channel or the workspace feed.

• Creating. Composer → Poll tile. Two to twenty options. Pick single-choice or multi-choice, set an optional close date, optionally make votes anonymous.
• Voting. One click on an option. You can change your vote until the poll closes (single-choice) or toggle individual options (multi-choice).
• Closing. The author can close a poll at any time; the results stay visible.

Quizzes are scored multi-question challenges. They feed the per-tenant leaderboard and contribute to gamification.

• Taking. Open a quiz from the channel or feed. You can move between questions; the submit button stays disabled until every question is answered. Submit and you’ll see your score and a per-question result.
• Question types. Multiple-choice (single correct), true / false, multi-select (more than one correct), and short answer (case-insensitive text match).
• Leaderboards. Each quiz has its own leaderboard ranked by score then completion time.

Events are scheduled gatherings — meetups, webinars, AMAs.

• RSVPing. Click Going, Interested, or Can’t make it. RSVPs are visible to the host; the count is visible to everyone.
• Joining the meeting. For online events the host sets a meeting URL — it shows up on the event detail page once the event starts.
• Reminders. If you RSVP’d Going, you’ll get a notification 15 minutes before the start.

Some channels have an AI agent configured by their admin. You invoke it like any other user — just mention its handle in a message (the default is @assistant, but admins can rename it).

The agent reads up to 50 recent messages from the channel as context, generates a reply, and posts as AI Assistant with a distinctive accent avatar and an AI · agent badge so you can tell it apart.

The agent doesn’t auto-reply to every message — only when you mention it. It also can’t see private channel messages or DMs unless someone @mentions it in that channel.

The Catch me up button at the top of a channel asks the workspace’s AI to summarize what you missed since you last opened the channel. Available on Growth-tier workspaces and above; if the button is missing, your admin hasn’t enabled AI yet.

The summary is just for you — it doesn’t post into the channel.

Click Messages in the sidebar to open the DM list. New DM opens a composer that lets you pick one or more workspace members.

• One person → a 1:1 conversation that’s deduped per workspace.
• Two or more → a group conversation, named whatever you set.
• DMs support the same composer features as channels — Markdown, mentions, attachments, edit/delete, reactions, scheduled send.

The bell icon in the top bar shows your inbox. Notifications come from:

• Mentions in channels, threads, DMs.
• Replies to your articles, questions, posts.
• New posts in workspaces you’re subscribed to (configurable).
• Events you RSVP’d to (start reminders).
• Workspace announcements + system messages.

Open Notification preferences from the inbox to customise:

• Per-workspace. Mute a whole workspace, or limit it to mentions only.
• Per-channel. Override per-workspace settings for a specific channel (e.g. all messages, mentions only, or nothing). You can also snooze a channel for 30 min / 1 hr / 8 hr / until tomorrow.
• Email + push. Pick which event types email you, and install the PWA / native app to enable push.

Click your avatar in the bottom-left to open your profile + account menu.

• Profile. Display name, username, avatar, headline, bio, social links. Visible to everyone in workspaces you’re in.
• Activity. Your posts, articles, questions, reactions, and gamification badges.
• Account. Email, password (via Auth0), connected sessions, and the option to delete your account (irreversible).
• Streaks & points. The flame chip in the top bar tracks your daily-login streak; the leaderboard ranks members by points.

Some channels or whole workspaces require a paid subscription. The first time you click a paid surface, you’ll land on a paywall page with:

• The price (monthly or yearly) in your currency (USD or INR).
• A description of what subscribing unlocks.
• A Subscribe button that redirects you to Stripe (USD) or Razorpay (INR) checkout.

Once payment succeeds you’re routed back to the channel and your subscription is active immediately. Manage it under Subscriptions in your profile menu — you can cancel any time; access continues until the end of the current billing period.

To leave a workspace, open the Settings menu in the sidebar → Workspace settings → Leave workspace. You’ll lose access to the feed, channels, and DMs in that workspace; your posts and messages remain visible to other members.

Workspace owners can’t leave without first transferring ownership.

Still stuck?

• File a support ticket from inside a workspace — Support icon on the rail → New ticket. The admin sees it in their queue.
• Email support@arythmatic.cloud for help that’s not workspace-specific (account issues, billing, etc.).
• Visit community.arythmatic.cloud — the official Arythmatic Connect community, where you can ask other members and the team.

See the contact page for everything in one place.