People together
Invitations and visits
Let someone visit your dimension, choose their permissions and end a visit when you need to.
A visit gives another person a permission level for your dimension. You can grant a friend access or create an invite link for a guest. Neither action makes your dimension publicly listed.
Choose the narrowest permission that fits the visit. A reading visit, a conversation and building together require different access.
The three permission levels
| Permission | What the visitor can do |
|---|---|
| Read only | A visit without chat or build controls. |
| Read and chat | The visit's message field and Send control. |
| Build and chat | Chat plus Add a node and Link two nodes for the visitor's own nodes. |
These controls do not grant a command to copy your unshared work. A visitor can see the material that the visit opens to them, so check what is in your dimension before inviting someone. Read the Privacy Policy for data handling.
Let a friend visit
Open People → Friends, then the friend's More control. Choose Visits, pick the permission and select Save visits.
Your permission for them and their permission for you are separate. The row describes both. No visits removes the permission you grant them; it does not edit their choice for you.
A friend visit lasts up to three hours from the grant and can end sooner if either person signs out. Granting it again starts a new window. Friendship by itself is not permission to visit.
Create an invite link
Open People → Invite links.
- Choose What they can do using the three visit levels.
- Choose Link expires: 1 hour, 1 day or 7 days. The default is one day.
- Choose Create a link.
- Use Copy on the new link and send it to your guest.
Copy the new link while it is shown. The list keeps the invitation's details, but does not recover the original link for you after the creation result is gone. If necessary, revoke it and create another.
A normal link created here is for one use. Its list entry shows the permission, expiry, uses and current state: Active, Expired, Revoked or Used. Use Revoke on an active invitation to stop further redemption.
The Invite home action on a person's name menu is a quicker way to make a one-use, one-day Read and chat link. It copies the link for you to send; choosing it does not automatically deliver a message to that person.
Open someone's invitation
Open the link and read who invited you and the permission. Use Sign in and visit. If you need to sign in, return to the same invitation afterwards.
An ended invitation says this invite has ended and asks you to request a new link. An expired, revoked or used-up link cannot be revived by repeatedly opening it.
The visit view identifies the host and your permission. Read only has no chat or build controls. A chat-level visit offers a message field and Send. A build-level visit adds Add a node and Link two nodes. You need two nodes before that link action can connect them.
Use Leave to leave the visit view. The host can also end your visit or lower what you may do.
Manage visitors at home
At your own home, the canvas's top-right visitor indicator appears while people are visiting. Open it to see who is there, the permission each holds and whether they came through friendship or an invite link.
Use Lower to [permission] to reduce a visitor's access, or End visit to stop it. This view offers lowering and ending, rather than raising an active visitor's permission. Give a fresh grant when you need a different arrangement.
Visits and invite links can be refused by account or age restrictions. Protected teen accounts cannot make or use dimension invite links, and an adult and teen cannot visit one another's dimensions. The current age requirement is explained in Age and safety.