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{{< alert context="primary" text="Mobile notifications only work when a user is tagged or pinged directly." />}}
## Chat Guidelines
We're in a high-trust environment where users are known humans, so our guidelines are straightforward:
1. **Baseline decorum.** Engineering requires rigorous criticism, but [there's a line](https://abner.page/post/linus-is-a-father-figure-now/) you can't cross.
2. **Keep off-topic in #off-topic.** Anything unrelated to our industry should be in `#off-topic` for easy muting. Religion or politics are discouraged and moderated (expect bias from leadership.)
3. **AI hype profiteers are banned.** You know *exactly* what we're talking about. Discuss artificial intelligence with sobriety.
## Verified Human Badge
The **Verified Human** badge is granted to users we've met in person:
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{{< alert context="primary" text="Currently only [the founder](/docs/support/contact/) can manually grant badges, so the appeal is made to him." />}}
## Reconnnecting...
When Handmade Cities performs server maintenance (or upgrades) the chat client displays a `Reconnecting...` message:
![](/images/hmc_docs_revolt_7.png)
Wait a few minutes before manually refreshing the browser. If we're [on mobile](/docs/chat/#going-mobile), kill the app and reopen it.
## Limitations
Revolt is known as Discord Lite because of some missing features. The quirks or limitations are as follows:
1. **Can't point Revolt app to custom domain.** This is discussed under [Going Mobile](/docs/chat/#going-mobile).
2. **Missing bells & whistles**. There’s no message pinning. No threads. Strange restrictions apply with emoji reactions.
2. **Missing bells & whistles**. Can't pin messages. Can't start threads.
3. **Lack of end-to-end encryption.** Discord has this issue too. Handmade Cities policy is to safeguard private DMs and never inspect their contents.
These are all minor irritations to us, not deal breakers.