Getting started

You can explore Glob Social before you sign in. An account gives you a Home for your own nodes and access to the actions your account and each place allow.

Look around first#

Open Glob Social and you arrive at the Nexus while signed out. Open topics and follow the canvas into nodes that interest you. You can also read a public node or profile from a link someone sends you.

If you try an action that needs an account, the canvas shows Sign in to join in. Choose Sign in to continue, or Keep looking to stay a visitor. Signing in from that prompt returns you to the place you were exploring.

The header has Sign in and Sign up. On a phone, Pages opens the site's information pages. You do not need to complete a tour before using those controls.

Sign in or create an account#

Glob Social uses your Colli account, which is also used by Glob. You do not create a second password just for Glob Social.

On the Sign in screen, choose one of these routes:

• Sign in with Colli opens your Colli account sign-in.
• Continue with Apple or Continue with Google starts that sign-in method.
• Create an account opens account registration.
• Forgot password? opens password recovery.

If your account still needs a username, you are taken to choose one before continuing. That name identifies you in Glob Social and names your Home. Account registration and sign-in options are covered in the Colli account guide.

If sign-in reports Check your inbox and verify your email address first., complete email verification and start sign-in again. If a sign-in link has expired, use a fresh sign-in from Glob Social rather than reopening the same link. More messages are listed in Troubleshooting.

If an age question appears#

Read the age requirement under Using Glob Social in the Terms before joining. If sign-in asks When were you born?, choose your Month, enter your Year, then choose Continue. Use your own details.

An existing account can see Not now. Choosing it lets you look around while posting and invitations remain restricted until you answer. Choose a month and enter a year. means the form needs a complete answer.

If the age screen refuses access, contact [email protected] if you believe there is a mistake. See Age and safety protections.

Set up Home#

When your account can create its Home, Glob Social makes an empty one automatically. You do not have to choose subjects first. Home is the inside of your user root node, named with your username.

The first setup opens Node options on that node, at Interests. The choices are optional:

• Colour tints Home. You can change it later.
• Topics lets you browse subjects from the Nexus catalogue. Open a subject to browse its topics, or add one to Home.
• Who can see it contains Home's visibility controls. Treat making Home public as sharing its whole inside; read Sharing a node before using that control.

Adding a topic places a pin in Home. It does not make your own Home public. A topic marked Added is already among those placements.

Close Node options whenever you are ready, even if you have picked nothing. If you reload while the initial setup is still open, it can reopen. Once you close it, it stops opening automatically. You can return to Interests from Node options on your home node.

If Home takes time to appear, the app retries creating it automatically. Give it a moment. If it remains unavailable, check your connection and account access, then reopen Glob Social.

Find your canvas on a phone#

The signed-in app opens with Feed filling the phone screen. Choose Show canvas in the bottom controls to reach Home or your current place. Show Feed brings the full-screen panel back. Its tabs also give you Listr, Chat and the other available tools; the canvas keeps its place underneath.

On a computer, the adaptive panel sits beside the canvas instead. Panels and windows explains the tabs and how they change in the creative workspaces.

Try a first small canvas#

Make a node for a subject of your own. Add another related node, then draw a link between them. Open one of the topics you pinned and use the Glob logo to return Home. You can learn each gesture as you need it; Nodes and the canvas and Keyboard shortcuts are the references.

For a guided start, the Tutorial walks you through finding a node, saving it to Listr, putting it on Home and linking it to a node of your own, in two short lessons; more lessons cover the canvas, finding your way, sharing, the side panel, chat and Pixl. Open it from Settings › Tutorial. First-trip preferences shows your first constellation: Make something, Pin something, Draw a link, Go away and come back, and Share something. The tutorial lights the first four as you complete the matching steps.

You do not have to share anything to continue learning. Use Home and your root to understand your starting space, or The Nexus to explore.