Your account
Signing in
An instance signs you in one of two ways, or both -- its admin decides:
- Through its identity provider (the "Sign in" button sends you there and back).
- With a username and password on the instance's own sign-in page.
Getting an account depends on the instance: some let anybody sign up, some create accounts for everyone their identity provider knows, some ask an admin to approve new accounts first (you will see a page saying you are waiting), and some are closed to new accounts.
Signing in with an account from another instance
If you have an account on another vibe-live instance, you can use it here
without making a new one: on the sign-in page, choose I have an account
on another instance and enter your handle (you@your.instance). Your own
instance asks you to confirm -- this instance never sees your password --
and sends you back signed in.
As a visitor you can watch, follow and chat (chat only where this instance's admin allows it for yours). You stream on your own instance, never here. This instance's admin can turn visitors off, for everyone or for your instance alone.
Your theme
Settings → Account → Your theme changes how the site looks for you alone. By default you follow the instance's theme. You can pick any of its eight themes instead, and choose Light, Dark, or As my device asks.
Your choice is kept on your account, so it applies on every device you sign in on. It also comes with you when you sign in to another instance with this account.
Password and reset
With a password account, Settings → Account sets or changes it. If you forget it, enter your username on the sign-in page and choose Forgot your password?: a reset link is mailed to the address on your account -- if you gave one, and if the instance has email set up. The link works once. Accounts that come from an identity provider have no password here: sign-in, and anything about it, is the provider's.
Two-factor
Password accounts can add an authenticator app (any TOTP app: Aegis, 2FAS, Google Authenticator, a password manager...) in Settings → Account. You get ten single-use recovery codes: keep them somewhere safe; each one signs you in once if you lose the app.
App passwords
Settings → App passwords → Create new makes a token for scripts and
tools -- like a personal access token. It acts as you, but never with
admin rights, even if your account has them. Send it as
Authorization: Bearer <token>. Each shows when it was last used, and you
can revoke any of them.
When you make one, choose what it may do:
- Everything my account can do -- what every app password could do before this choice existed, and still does.
- Read my stream stats only -- your figures and nothing else. It is the one to give a dashboard or a spreadsheet: whoever holds it can read your numbers, but cannot change, delete or post anything.
- Post in my chat (a bot) -- what a chat bot holds: it posts in your chat and does nothing else.
The choice is fixed: for different rights, make another.
Your data
- Download my data gives you everything this instance holds about you, as one JSON file: your account, your channel and its settings, what you wrote in chat, who you follow, and each of your past broadcasts with a link to download it as a video file. Secrets -- your stream key, tokens, passwords -- are never in it; it only says whether you have them.
- Download beside each of your past broadcasts (Settings → Past
broadcasts) saves it as one video file (
.ts, which plays in VLC and most players), wherever this instance keeps it. - Delete my account removes your account and everything of yours on this instance. It asks you to type your username first, and it cannot be undone.