# Wusoup help

> Wusoup is a free, members-only, friendship-focused, one-on-one text chat community for adults 19+. No dating, sexting, hookups, bots, ads, or spam.

This file indexes Wusoup's help documentation. Full text: https://www.wusoup.com/llms-full.txt

## Start

- [Welcome](https://www.wusoup.com/help): Wusoup is a free friendship-focused text chat community for meaningful one-on-one conversations without dating, creeps, bots, or spam.
- [What's New?](https://www.wusoup.com/help/news): What's new on Wusoup (recent changes and improvements)

## About

- [The Mission](https://www.wusoup.com/help/mission): Wusoup's mission is to build a small, kind, high-trust text chat community for friendship, curiosity, and meaningful connection.
- [Community Rules](https://www.wusoup.com/help/rules): Wusoup's strictly enforced community rules for a safe friendship-focused chat space with no dating, sexual content, spam, or hate.
- [Contact](https://www.wusoup.com/help/contact): Wusoup contact info (support account and email address)
- [Development Story](https://www.wusoup.com/help/development-story): How Wusoup came to be - a long-running passion project by one independent developer, with no company, no investors, and no ads behind it.

## Usage

- [Your Profile](https://www.wusoup.com/help/your-profile): How to write a Wusoup profile that helps people start better friendship-focused chats and understand the real person behind it.
- [Browsing The Community](https://www.wusoup.com/help/browsing): How browsing works on Wusoup, including profile discovery, skip behavior, and finding people worth writing to.
- [Chats](https://www.wusoup.com/help/chats): How the Wusoup chats screen works - your conversation list, starting chats, and finding past conversations.
- [Messaging](https://www.wusoup.com/help/messaging): How to start better Wusoup chats with thoughtful first messages, real conversation starters, and fewer low-effort openers.
- [Karma](https://www.wusoup.com/help/karma): How Wusoup karma works, including community contribution points, rewards, kudos, invites, leaderboards, and helpful participation.
- [Reputation](https://www.wusoup.com/help/reputation): How Wusoup reputation works, including community ratings, recommending users, upvotes, downvotes, reporting users, and reduced visibility.
- [Kudos](https://www.wusoup.com/help/kudos): How Wusoup kudos work, including earning and awarding public praise to exemplary community members.
- [Pinning](https://www.wusoup.com/help/pinning): How pinning works on Wusoup, including keeping track of chats, pinned-only visibility, unpinning, and the pin limit.
- [Topic Tango](https://www.wusoup.com/help/topic-tango): Topic Tango is Wusoup's optional 1-on-1 ice-breaker game - you and your chat partner pick topics to discuss or friendly-debate.
- [Invites](https://www.wusoup.com/help/invites): How Wusoup members can invite friends, vouch for them, and connect automatically when they join.
- [Blocking](https://www.wusoup.com/help/blocking): Blocking on Wusoup (how it works, how to unblock, etc.)
- [Banning](https://www.wusoup.com/help/banning): Banning on Wusoup (when it happens, what it means, etc.)

## Misc

- [FAQ](https://www.wusoup.com/help/faq): Answers to common Wusoup questions - what it is, why no dating or group chats, how privacy and moderation work, and what keeps the community creep-free.
- [How to Help](https://www.wusoup.com/help/how-to-help): How to help Wusoup (setting an example, word of mouth, financial support)
- [Positive Feedback](https://www.wusoup.com/help/positive-feedback): Real, unedited feedback from Wusoup users on making friends and having meaningful one-on-one chats in a small, strictly moderated community.

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy](https://www.wusoup.com/help/privacy-policy): Wusoup's plain-English privacy policy covering cookies, tracking, personal data, profile visibility, messages, and data deletion.
- [Terms of Use](https://www.wusoup.com/help/terms-of-use): Wusoup terms of use, including eligibility, acceptable use, privacy policy agreement, account termination, and legal terms.

## Other

- [Wusoup homepage](https://www.wusoup.com/)
- [What's new in Wusoup v3?](https://www.wusoup.com/whats-new-in-v3): A visual tour of the new Wusoup.
- [Sitemap](https://www.wusoup.com/sitemap.xml)
- [What's New feed](https://www.wusoup.com/help/rss.xml)