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ImageTrip
MessageRecipes
Collections
Arrange saved messages, images and links into collections, like recipes, things to read or a trip plan. Everything in one place instead of scattered across ten conversations.
New people and new servers, while your address stays with you.
Plazer helps you find a community worth talking in and people you have not met yet: in the server directory, in a random chat, nearby, and even where there is no signal. Every time, you decide how much of yourself you show.
A server directory that counts what is happening right now.
A member count tells you how many people once clicked "join". The Plazer directory shows how many of them actually write and talk, so you see straight away where things are alive and where only empty channels are left.
- Stats from real activity
- Next to every server you see how lively the conversations were over the last few days and how many people are in voice channels right now. Accounts that joined and vanished cannot pump these numbers up.
Search servers
This weekIn voice
- Games
- Learning
- Music
- Games
Preview before joiningServer key fingerprint
- Open to every server
- The directory is open to big communities and to small servers just getting started, including ones running on their own hardware. You search by topic and by the language people speak there.
- Preview before you join
- Before you go in, you read the server description, see its public channels and the key fingerprint that confirms you are connecting to that server and not a fake. A server can also show selected public channels on the web, no sign-in needed.
Your server: look around without joiningSpins left today
Server roulette, for when you do not know what you are looking for.
One spin shows you a server you would never have found on your own. You look around without joining, and if you like it, you stay.
The roulette picks from active servers in the directory. You will not land in an abandoned place whose last message is a year old.
Spins have a daily limit. That keeps the roulette a way of discovering things rather than one more endless scroll that eats your evening.
A random chat with someone who speaks your language.
Sometimes you just want to talk to someone. Plazer connects you with a person who speaks the same language and shares your interests, and you can end the chat at any moment.
- Board games
- Photography
- Programming
- Mountains
1Pick what you want to talk about
Tick a few interests. The chat language comes from your app settings, so you will not end up with someone you cannot understand.
- Looking for someone who speaks English2
Plazer finds a second person
You are paired with someone who is looking for a chat at the same moment, speaks your language and has similar interests.
- Hi, do you hike too?Yes, I am heading out on Saturday. You?3
You talk
If the conversation clicks, you send a friend request. If it does not, you end it in one move and can block that person.
A daily chat limit
Random chats have a daily limit, just like the roulette. Meeting someone new should feel like an event, not a conveyor belt you scroll forever.
People nearby who do not know exactly where you are.
You can see who around you also uses Plazer and be visible to them yourself. The radius starts at 1 km and nobody receives your exact position.
An area, not a point
Others see that you are somewhere around them, not which street or which building. Instead of a dot, their map shows an area you could be in.
A radius from 1 km
The smallest radius is one kilometre. You can widen it when you are looking for people across the whole city, but you cannot narrow it below a kilometre.
Messages land in requests
Someone nearby cannot jump straight into your chats. Their message waits in message requests, like one from any stranger, and you decide whether to reply.
Your privacy settings still apply
Who can message you, who can invite you and the spam filter apply to people nearby too. Someone you blocked cannot message you from here either.
Talking where there is no signal.
Plug a small LoRa transmitter into your phone and keep writing without internet and without a mobile network. The message travels by radio straight to the other phone, and with a relay it covers up to a dozen or so kilometres.
How it works
- Radio instead of a cell tower
- LoRa is long-range radio that uses very little power. It carries little data at a time, which makes it a perfect fit for short text messages.
- A relay extends the route
- A relay placed higher up, on a hill, a sailing mast or a roof, picks the message up and sends it on. With it the range grows to a dozen or so kilometres.
- The same app
- You write in the same Plazer, in the same conversations. Once you are back in range, everything carries on over the internet.
When it helps
- At a festivalWhen thousands of phones jam the network and a normal message will not go through.
- In the mountainsOn the trail and at the mountain hut, where the signal ends at the first bend.
- On the waterBetween boats on a lake, or between the crew on deck and people on shore.
Friends, circles and shared memories.
Adding someone as a friend takes a second, and after that you decide how you arrange them and who you share photos with.
Friends by QR code
You meet in person, scan the code on the other phone and you are friends. No spelling out usernames letter by letter.
Friend circles
Group your friends your way, and they do not know which circle they are in. A shared circle that everyone can see only exists when all its members agree.
Shared albums
Photos from a trip or a gig go into one album that everyone adds to. You tag people in them, so everyone finds themselves easily.
A space for two
A shared place just for the two of you, with your photos, notes and conversation. It is created when both people agree.
What you want to keep, and the time you want back.
Plazer helps you hold on to what matters and does not let the app take more of your time than you want to give it.
Your limit
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My time
Set your own daily limit for using the app and see stats on how much time you spend in it. When the limit runs out, Plazer lets you know, and what happens next is up to you.
Questions about meeting people
The most common doubts before you turn on nearby visibility or start your first random chat.
No. People nearby only see that you are somewhere around them, within at least a kilometre. Your exact position never reaches other users.
The stats come from how many people on the server have been writing and talking recently, not from the number of accounts that once joined. That is why empty accounts cannot pump them up.
So that discovering stays a pleasure rather than a habit. The limit renews every day.
No. You need a LoRa transmitter plugged into the phone on both ends of the conversation. Over longer distances a relay placed higher up helps.
No. Circles are your private way of ordering things. A shared circle that everyone can see only exists with the consent of every person in it.
Their message lands in message requests. You reply if you want to, and if not, you delete the request or block that person.
Read next
The servers you will find in the directory, the profiles of people you will meet, and how Plazer protects your data.
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Android, iPhone, iPad, computers and the browser tab. One account on every device.
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- Privacy and encryptionMLS, no phone number and what servers see
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