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Click sign up in the sidebar to create an account with a username, email, and password. Check your inbox for a verification email — you'll need to click the link there before you can log in.
Once you're signed up, use the sidebar on the left to get around the site: your channels directory, favorites, messages, notifications, and settings are all one click away, no matter what page you're on.
Click the upload icon to pick a video file from your device and give it a title. It'll start processing in the background — this can take a little while for longer videos.
Once it's done, find it under My Videos as a draft. From there you can rename it, choose a category, and when you're happy with it, click Publish to make it live on your channel and eligible to show up on the homepage.
Drafts you never publish are private — nobody else can see them until you do.
Every account has its own channel page — think of it as your profile. Open Settings and look for the channel customization options to change how yours looks:
Don't want to fiddle with every color yourself? Visit your own channel page and click fix channel colors to instantly get a randomly-picked, ready-made color theme.
To change your profile picture, go to your own channel page and click the camera icon over your current avatar.
From Settings, you control exactly who can see different parts of your channel — each of the following can be set to Everyone, Friends only, or Hidden:
You can also turn comments off on your channel entirely (the chat mode toggle), and control what shows up in your activity feed to the people subscribed to you (uploads, favorites, comments, or none of it).
The strongest privacy tool is blocking someone directly — see Blocking Users below.
Add friend from anyone's channel page, or from the channels directory — they'll need to accept before you're officially friends.
Subscribe to a channel (no acceptance needed) to follow their uploads, and to get notified the moment they start a Live Room.
Send a private message from someone's channel page, or from your own Messages page — as long as their privacy settings allow it.
Leave a comment on a video or a channel page (if the owner allows it), and reply to other comments to start a thread. The comment box lets you attach an image or search for a GIF right from your keyboard.
If a comment breaks the rules, use its report option — a moderator reviews it personally before anything happens, so nothing gets removed automatically.
A Room is a shared hangout space — voice chat, optional webcams, text chat, and a shared "stage" the host can broadcast video into. Start one from the homepage's Start a room button.
Inside a room:
As the host, click Go Live in the Room Menu and pick how you want to stream to everyone in the room:
Click End Live (same menu) whenever you want to stop. If you're using streaming software, you can also turn on Record this stream to my videos before going live — it'll automatically save the broadcast as a draft in My Videos once you end it, ready for you to review and publish.
New rooms start out Private — only you, moderators, and anyone you've invited or who's already joined can get in.
Click Publish Room (next to the room title) to make it discoverable — this sets your room to "Only friends can join without asking," which also puts it on the homepage's Live Rooms section (and your own channel page) once you're actually streaming, and lets your subscribers know you've gone live.
Open Room Privacy from the Room Menu any time to switch between all three modes, including fully Public (anyone with the link can join immediately, no approval needed).
While in friends-only mode, anyone who isn't already your friend has to ask first — you'll get a Join Requests panel showing who's asking, with three choices:
Blocking someone (from their channel page, or right from a room Join Request) keeps you both out of each other's way: they can't comment on your channel, message or friend you, or join your rooms at all.
See everyone you've blocked — and unblock them if you change your mind — under Channels > Blocked users.
Every video, channel, comment, and room has a report (or "flag") option. Reports go straight to the moderation team, who look at the actual content themselves before taking any action — nothing gets auto-banned by a script.
