Posts, the feed and comments

Text post or widget post

Every post is either a text card or a widget — never both. That single choice decides what the card looks like, what the settings pane offers, and what gets published.

1. 1Go to the Home tab.
2. 2Tap the round plus button at the right of the feed header. Screen readers announce it as New post.
3. 3The composer opens — a full-screen sheet on a phone, a centred dialog on a desktop.
4. 4In the empty card, tap Text or Widget. The same pair is also a tab strip in the settings pane, and the two stay in sync.

The two arrangements hold exactly the same controls. On a desktop the card sits on the left and the settings pane on the right; on a phone the same blocks stack. Nothing is hidden on one and not the other.

Starting over

The ✕ in the top-right corner of the card well (Clear the card) returns you to the two-button empty state. It clears the mode, the text, every formatting run, the card colour, the attached widget and the card effect. It does not clear the caption.

Closing and discarding

There are four ways out, and they all do the same thing:

• The ✕ in the sheet header (Cancel).
• Tapping the dimmed area behind the sheet.
• Pressing Escape.
• On a phone only: grabbing the very top strip of the sheet and pulling down past about a finger's width.

If you have typed anything or attached anything, a panel asks Discard this post? — "Your caption and attachment will be lost." — with Keep editing and Discard. If the post is empty it just closes.

Writing the card

You type straight into the card that will be published. It is not a preview: the composer renders the real feed card, so the size and the line breaks you see are what readers get. The placeholder reads Start typing….

• The card hugs its text. Four words make a small card; a full-length post fills the well.
• Type size shrinks a little on a narrow phone and caps at 16px. Text that overflows the card is clipped — and because you are typing in the card itself, you watch it happen.
• Enter inserts a line break. (The exception: if the mention list is open with a row highlighted, Enter picks that person instead.)
• Pasting brings plain text only — formatting from elsewhere is stripped. A paste that overshoots the limit is trimmed to fit rather than refused.
• Looping effects pause while you type, so you never have to aim the cursor at a moving letter.

The counter

A post's card body is capped at 280 characters. The counter sits under the format bar, counting what you have used against 280, and turns red once you pass 260.

Formatting a text post

The format bar appears directly under the card whenever the mode is Text. It is one scrolling row, in this order: Bold, Italic, Underline, Emoji, Mention someone, Text colour, Highlight, Font, Effect, Clear formatting.

What a format applies to

You rarely need to select anything. A cursor sitting in a word formats that whole word — tap into it, tap Bold, done. If you do drag a selection, it grows outward to cover any mention or link it lands halfway through, because those are drawn as single pieces.

When there is nothing to format — an empty card, or the cursor away from any word — the toolbar behaves in three different ways, which is worth knowing:

• Bold, Italic, Underline and Clear formatting are genuinely disabled and dimmed.
• Font and Effect still open, but the pills and chips inside them are dimmed and inert. Each panel prints Select some text first. at the top.
• Text colour and Highlight swatches never dim. They stay tappable and a tap quietly does nothing.

Bold, italic, underline

Toggles, with the usual word-processor rule: a range that is already fully bold un-bolds, a range that is only partly bold goes fully bold.

Text colour and card colour

The palette button opens one panel with two sections. Text is 12 colours that apply to the selected words — tapping the colour that is already on removes it. Card is an Auto pill plus 8 colours for the background of the whole callout card. Auto is the default: white in a light theme, near-black in a dark one.

Highlight

The highlighter button opens a single row of 10 colours, painted as a rounded marker box behind the words. A highlight that wraps across lines draws a box on every line. Tapping the active colour clears it. This one needs a word or a selection — otherwise the panel says Select some text first..

Font

Twelve typefaces, each pill drawn in its own face: Default, Elegant, Mono, Playfair, Handwritten, Pixelated, Pacifico, Caveat, Lobster, Bebas, Shadows and Orbitron. Tapping the active pill returns to the default face.

Clear formatting

The eraser at the end of the bar strips bold, italic, underline, text colour, highlight, font and effect from the current range in one tap. It does not reset the card colour — that lives in the Card section of the colour panel, and Auto is how you undo it.

Looping text effects

The sparkle button opens 19 effects in four families, and every chip is a live demo — the word Bounce bounces, Glitch tears. Tap a chip to apply it to the current word or selection; tap the active chip to remove it.

• These are loops, not entrances — an effect runs for as long as the post is on screen, and stops when it scrolls away.
• Several of them animate letter by letter, staggered. Spaces hold their place in the rhythm without moving.
• Highlight paints the marker itself, so pairing it with a highlight colour makes the sweep use that colour.
• For readers who have turned on "reduce motion", effects are paused, not removed — a paused gradient still shows its colours, a paused bounce sits still.

Emoji

There is an Emoji button in the format bar (for the card body) and another in the caption's icon row. Both open the same panel, anchored above the box you are writing in.

1. 1Put the cursor where the emoji goes.
2. 2Tap Emoji.
3. 3Browse a category, or type in Search emoji — it matches the emoji's name, and also matches if you paste the emoji itself.
4. 4Tap a cell. It lands at the cursor.
5. 5Tap the smiley again, or press Escape, to close the panel.

The panel is Google's animated emoji set, so the same artwork appears on every device instead of your reader's phone deciding what your post looks like. The grid holds 614 emoji across nine categories — Smileys, People, Nature, Food, Travel, Activities, Objects, Symbols, Flags — plus a Recent category holding your last 12 picks once you have some. A search that matches nothing shows No emoji found.

• The panel stays open after a pick, because inserting several in a row is the normal case.
• It opens on Recent if you have recents, otherwise on Smileys.
• Neither the emoji panel nor the GIF panel focuses its search field, so a phone keyboard never covers the results the moment you open it.
• Only one of the two panels can be open — opening one closes the other.
• Recent lives in this browser only. It does not follow you to another device, and private browsing forgets it.
• In the caption and in any comment box, emoji you type or paste yourself become the same artwork as you write. In the card body they stay as your device's own glyphs while you are typing and take the shared artwork once posted. What gets stored is always the plain character either way.

Mentions

The swirl button labelled Mention someone is the only way in. It sits in the format bar and in the caption's icon row.

1. 1Put the cursor where the mention goes.
2. 2Tap the swirl. An @ is inserted — with a space in front of it if the cursor was glued to a word, so an email shape can never be produced.
3. 3The people list opens straight away, showing Recent before you type anything.
4. 4Type to search, or use ↑ and ↓ to move.
5. 5Press Enter or Tab to pick — or tap a row. The handle and a space are inserted and the list closes.

• A row is an avatar and a handle, with the display name underneath when it differs.
• The list offers up to 10 people, and only people who have claimed a handle.
• Handles are lowercase letters, digits and underscores, 1 to 20 characters. Type more than 20 characters after the @ and the list stops offering.
• Your recent mentions — up to 12 — are kept in this browser, not on your account.
• A published mention shows the brand swirl instead of the @, in purple, and tapping it opens that person's profile.

With no history the list reads No recent mentions yet — start typing a name. A search that finds nobody reads No one matches followed by what you typed, and a search that fails reads Couldn't search right now..

Widget posts

A widget post shares a live, playable copy of one widget from your own page. It is a frozen copy, not a link — editing that widget on your page later does not change the post.

1. 1Tap Widget — either the button in the empty card or the tab in the settings pane.
2. 2A grid of square thumbnails appears, listing every widget on your main page and all your sub-pages, with duplicates removed.
3. 3Tap one. It fills the card exactly as the feed will frame it, and the grid collapses.
4. 4To swap it, tap Change widget to bring the grid back.

Until you pick, the card reads Pick a widget from your canvas on the right. on a desktop, or Pick a widget from your canvas below. on a phone. If you have no widgets at all it reads Nothing on your canvas yet — add widgets in the editor..

The caption

The caption is the line of commentary under the card. On a text post it is a genuinely separate field from the card body. On a widget post it is the post's only text.

It lives in the settings pane under Caption, with the placeholder Say something about it…. The section only appears once you have picked Text or Widget. Underneath it are three buttons — Emoji, Mention someone and the sparkle — and a counter.

• Capped at 280 characters; the counter turns red past 260.
• Emoji render as artwork as you type or paste them.
• Mentions work here exactly as they do in the card — only the button makes one.
• Pasting is plain text and single-line: a pasted paragraph's line breaks collapse into spaces.

Having the caption written for you

The sparkle button in the caption's icon row (Write the caption for me) opens a tray under the caption. It reads what is in your card — or your widget — and writes up to three captions you can tap to use.

1. 1Tap the sparkle.
2. 2Optionally type a hint in What's it about? (optional) — up to 200 characters.
3. 3Optionally tap one vibe: Casual, Hype, Minimal or Story. Tapping it again deselects it, and picking none is a normal choice.
4. 4Tap Write captions. It becomes Regenerate once you have results.
5. 5Tap a suggestion to use it. It replaces the caption rather than adding to it, and the tray stays open.

Add hashtags, beside it, appends tags to the caption you already have — up to eight, each short and without spaces. It is disabled while the caption is empty, and the result is still capped at 280 characters, so tags can be cut off if the caption was already long.

Each run of either button costs 0.1 AI credits, charged per run rather than per caption you accept — pressing Regenerate is a fresh charge. How many credits you get a month, and how many AI actions you can run in a day, depend on your plan; Plans and limits has the numbers.

Card effects

A card effect is an animated particle layer inside the card well, drawn behind and in front of the card. It works on both post types.

1. 1Pick Text or Widget — the section only appears once a mode is chosen.
2. 2Scroll the settings pane to Card effects.
3. 3Tap one of the small square tiles. Each tile animates the real effect, with a white square standing in for the card.
4. 4Tap None to remove it.

There are 19: Snow, Rain, Falling leaves, Sakura, On fire, Embers, Shooting stars, Fireflies, Butterflies, Ants, Bubbles, Twinkle, Glitter, Confetti, Hearts, Bokeh, Stardust, Spiders and Bats. The default is None.

• Effects adapt to the reader's theme, so pale particles do not vanish on a light background.
• They pause when the card is off screen or the tab is hidden, and draw a single still frame for readers who have turned on "reduce motion".
• The effect survives switching between Text and Widget — but Clear the card removes it.

Posting, editing and deleting

Posting

The Post button in the sheet header stays dimmed until the post is valid: a text post needs at least one real character in the card, a widget post needs a widget.

1. 1Tap Post. The composer closes immediately — it does not wait for the network.
2. 2A placeholder card appears at the top of the feed with a thin purple progress bar, reading Uploading… and then Posting….
3. 3The app puts you back on the Home tab.
4. 4On success a toast says Posted — or names how many people were notified — with a Your posts button that takes you to Account, where your own posts live.

If it fails, the placeholder becomes an error row reading Couldn't post with Retry and Dismiss.

Editing

On your own post, the ⋯ menu (Post options) offers Edit caption. A dialog opens pre-filled, with the placeholder Say something, the same 280-character cap and counter, an Emoji button, a Mention someone button, and a Rewrite pill that offers Polish, Shorten and Punchy for 0.1 credits a run. Then Save or Cancel.

Deleting

1. 1Open the ⋯ menu on your own post.
2. 2Choose Delete.
3. 3Confirm on the sheet titled Delete this post? — "It's removed for everyone, likes and comments included. This can't be undone."

The card leaves every open list at once. Delete is only offered where the app wired it: the Home feed and Your posts. It is not on a post's own link page, and not inside somebody's profile sheet.

Reporting somebody else's post

On a post that is not yours, the ⋯ menu offers Report this post. Pick exactly one reason — Scam or fraud, Adult / sexual content, Harassment or hate, Spam or misleading, Impersonation or Other — add an optional note of up to 200 characters in Add a note (optional), and tap Report. You get Thanks — we'll take a look. and the menu item becomes Reported ✓ for the rest of the session.

The feed

The feed is the Home tab: posts from every page you have said Enchantée to, plus your own, newest first. On a phone it is the content of the draggable Home card — swipe the card up to full height, which is the only position where the feed scrolls. On a desktop it sits on the Home page, below the board at the top, in a centred column.

The header, and why its label changes

The centre of the phone header is a label that follows what you are doing: For you until the first time you touch the row of people at the top of the feed, Trending while that row is showing categories, and Updates afterwards. It resets to For you every new session. On a desktop the header is a greeting instead, with the bell and the plus button on the right.

Scrolling down slides the header out of the way; scrolling up brings it back. Near the very top it always stays.

Loading more

The feed loads 10 posts at a time and fetches the next batch automatically as you approach the end. A Load more button is always there at the bottom as well, whenever there is more to load — it is not a fallback that only appears when something fails.

Refreshing

Tapping the Home tab when you are already on Home does one of two things, never both:

• If the Home card has been moved or the feed is scrolled: the card snaps back and the feed scrolls to the top. Nothing is fetched.
• If it is already at rest and already at the top: the posts refetch, and a small spinner appears beside the header label until they arrive.

Empty and error states

• Nothing to show: Your feed is quiet — "Say enchantée to a few pages — their updates will land here." — with an Explore pages button.
• The fetch failed: Couldn't load updates. with Try again.
• First load: a placeholder card, not a spinner.

The post card

Every list in the app draws the same card — the feed, your own posts, someone's profile, and a post's own link page. The composer makes two shapes:

• Widget — a live, interactive widget in a debossed square well.
• Text — the styled callout card in the same well.

The card can also draw two older shapes, which nothing in the app writes any more but which still render if you meet one: a square photo with the author over a dark fade, and a live miniature of a page as it was — tapping that one opens that creator's page in the in-app viewer.

Widget, page and text cards lean gently as they pass the middle of the screen and tilt toward your pointer. It is decoration only, and it is off for readers who have turned on "reduce motion".

The author row and the caption

Avatar, display name, badge and a relative time. Tapping it opens that profile — on the Home feed and on Your posts. Inside somebody's profile sheet it is not tappable, because you are already there.

The caption is clamped to three lines. A more button appears only when the text is genuinely cut off — the app measures rather than guesses. There is no way to collapse it again: once expanded, it stays expanded.

The action row

Counts hide when they are zero and roll up or down when they change. There is deliberately no "view all comments" row — the speech bubble already carries the count and opens the same thread.

Likes, and who liked

Tap the heart. It fills and the count rolls up straight away. Tap again to unlike. The server decides the final answer, so two taps arriving at once cannot cancel each other out. If it fails, the heart quietly rolls back — no toast.

The author gets a notification the first time you like a post, never when you un-like and like again, and never on your own post.

Seeing who liked

• On a desktop the like count is its own button beside the heart, and opens the panel on Likes.
• On a phone, open the comment sheet and switch to the Likes pill.
• Rows show avatar, display name and handle; tapping one opens that profile.
• Someone the app cannot identify shows a neutral disc, reads A visitor, and is not tappable.
• Empty: No likes yet. Failed: Couldn't load likes. with Try again.

Comments and replies

Tapping the speech bubble opens the thread in whichever way suits the screen you are on — and none of them navigate away from the post.

• On a phone: a sheet rises over the feed, with the post still visible behind it.
• On a desktop feed, your own posts, or a profile: a panel slides in beside the card.
• On a desktop list without that layout: a dark overlay sheet, which is the only one that repeats the post at the top.
• On a post's own link page: the thread is already the screen, and the button just raises it to full.

Writing one

1. 1Tap the box. Only the dark overlay sheet focuses it for you — everywhere else you tap it yourself.
2. 2Type. The limit is 280 characters. The placeholder is Add a comment (or Add a comment… on the phone sheet and the link page).
3. 3Optionally add an emoji (Emoji), a GIF (Add a GIF) or a mention (Mention someone).
4. 4Press Enter or tap the send button (Send comment). It only appears once there is text or an attached GIF.

Enter always sends — it never adds a line break. A GIF on its own is a valid comment; an empty box with no GIF is not. Your comment appears instantly and is reconciled with the server; if it fails it disappears again and a toast says Couldn't send the comment..

Signed out on a shared post link, the box is replaced by Sign in to comment..

Replies

1. 1Tap a comment's body to open its menu, then Reply.
2. 2The box is seeded with the person's handle and focused, and a quote block appears above it reading Replying to their handle, with up to two lines of what they said.
3. 3Longer quotes get Show all / Show less. The ✕ (Cancel reply) backs out.
4. 4Send.

Threads are two levels deep at most. Replying to a reply puts your comment beside it under the original comment rather than nesting further.

Reading a long thread

• A comment with replies shows a See replies line carrying the count, which becomes Hide replies.
• A thread you have replied to opens itself — your own replies are never hidden from you.
• Replies reveal 10 at a time; the rest sit behind a button that counts how many are left.
• Conversations reveal 20 at a time. The newest is at the top; older ones load below behind a similar button, which also loads itself when it scrolls into view.
• Your own comments are labelled You. Empty threads read No comments yet (or Be the first to comment in the overlay sheet).

What you can do to a single comment

Tap a comment's body to open its menu. It only opens on a real tap — a press that slides, or that the browser claims for scrolling, does nothing. The avatar is a separate target that opens that person's profile.

• Your own comment: Copy text and Delete (confirmed on a sheet titled Delete this comment?).
• Someone else's: Reply, Copy text and Report — the same six reasons and the same optional 200-character note as a post report, in a dialog titled Report this comment.
• A small heart at the right edge of every row likes a comment. Liking your own is allowed, and a comment like never notifies anybody.
• Escape closes the menu without closing the sheet behind it.

GIFs and stickers

GIFs are comment-only. You cannot attach one to a post, a caption, a bio or a widget field.

1. 1In a comment box, tap Add a GIF. The panel opens above the box and trending results load straight away.
2. 2Switch between the GIFs and Stickers pills. Your typed search survives the switch.
3. 3Type in the search field to narrow it. Results reload a moment after you stop typing.
4. 4Scroll the two-column list — more loads as you approach the bottom.
5. 5Tap one. The panel closes and the GIF appears as a chip above your box.
6. 6Add text alongside it if you want, then send. To drop it before sending, tap the ✕ (Remove GIF) on the chip.

• The search placeholder names whoever is serving the results, so it reads Search KLIPY GIFs or Search KLIPY stickers — and the neutral Search GIFs / Search stickers until that is known.
• A Powered by KLIPY mark sits at the end of the search row, and GIFs served by KLIPY carry a small watermark once sent. Both are licence terms, not options.
• Search terms are cut to 64 characters, and the results stop at about 480 items per open — refine the search rather than scrolling further.
• Results are filtered to a family-friendly rating. There is no setting for that.
• Sent GIFs render at a modest height with their own proportions. Stickers keep their transparency.
• Empty: No GIFs found / No stickers found. Failed: Couldn't load GIFs. / Couldn't load stickers. with Try again.

The engagement sheet and the engagement panel

On a phone: the sheet

The comment icon raises a sheet over most of the screen carrying the Likes and Comments pills, the list and the box. The post is not repeated inside it — it is still on screen behind the dimmed backdrop. The bottom dock hides while it is open, because the comment box takes exactly that space.

Six ways to dismiss it:

• Drag the grab strip at the top downward. It works from any scroll position, and it is a real focusable control — Drag down to close comments.
• Drag anywhere on the sheet downward — but only when the list is already at the top. Mid-thread, dragging scrolls the list instead.
• Tap the dimmed area (Close comments).
• Tap the ✕ on the tab row (Close).
• Press Escape, or use your phone's back gesture.
• With the grab strip focused, press Enter or Space.

A short drag springs back; a longer one, or a quick downward flick, dismisses.

On a desktop: the panel

The comment icon (or the like count) slides a column in to the right of the card. The card slides left so the pair stays centred; the card itself never resizes. In a wide enough column the panel matches the card's width; in a narrow one it stacks underneath instead.

The desktop panel's box is the full one: mention, emoji, GIF and send.

Saving and sharing

Saving a post

Tap the bookmark on any post (Save post). It fills purple; tap again (Remove from saved) to unsave. If it fails, the bookmark reverts and a toast says Couldn't save that. Try again..

1. 1Go to Account → Settings.
2. 2Find the card titled Saved — "Posts you bookmarked."
3. 3Tap Open saved.
4. 4Tap a row to open that author's profile, where the full post lives.

The list shows a thumbnail, the handle and the post's text, newest save first. Posts with no text read Page update or Post. Empty: Nothing saved yet — "Tap the bookmark on any post to keep it here." Failed: Couldn't load your saved posts. with Try again.

Sharing a post

1. 1Tap the share arrow (Share post).
2. 2On a device with a share sheet, it opens with the post's text and the link.
3. 3Everywhere else the link is copied and a toast says Link copied.

What gets shared is the post's own permalink — enchant.ee/post/… — never your page. That link is public: whoever opens it sees the post, its likes and its comments without an account, and a link preview carries the author, the caption and the image. Signed out, the comment box reads Sign in to comment..

Closing the share sheet without sharing is silent. A genuine failure toasts Couldn't share the post. or Couldn't copy the link..

If the post has been deleted, a link opened from a notification shows This post isn't available any more. on an otherwise empty screen. A public permalink shows the app's ordinary 404 page.

Where else your posts appear

All of them share one live connection, so a like, a comment, a caption edit or a delete made in any one of them updates every other open list in the same instant, without a refresh.

Every character limit

Settings reference

The composer

The feed, posts and comments

When something goes wrong

These are the messages this part of the app can actually produce, and what each one means.

If none of this helps, email support@enchant.ee.