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Vibes

A vibe is a live gathering on the map — a get-together that people show up to and add to, in real time. If a moment is a single beat, a vibe is a beat that lots of people are living at once.

Hosted, never owned​

This is the important part, and it's a little different from anything you've used before. A vibe can have hosts: the Main who starts one is always a host, and can name others — any of their accepted connections, or a crew they belong to. Hosting is credit, not control over people. Hosts are named on the gathering so the ones behind it are visible, and a host never decides who can see or join it. What hosts do get is the housekeeping and the credit:

  • The cover. A host can set the gathering's cover image — the picture at the top of its page. Until someone does, the cover shows the vibe's spot on the map, and once moments start arriving, the latest published one.
  • The invite links. A host can switch off the vibe's invite links for everyone at once (more under "Let people watch from outside" below).
  • A share of the appreciation. When a moment recorded at the vibe earns appreciation, the hosts share in it — see The economy for exactly how.

None of that changes the rules of a gathering itself:

  • A vibe isn't normally alive until people join. Anyone can start one, but another Main normally has to join before it comes to life.
  • A vibe ends on its own. No host keeps a gathering live indefinitely. Its story remains available after it ends. A vibe wraps up when the last person leaves, when it reaches the end time it was given, or after about two hours of quiet — whichever comes first. One nobody joins at all gives up after ten minutes.
  • Bigger gatherings look bigger. A vibe's footprint on the map grows with the number of people there.

Moments feed the vibe​

When you're at a vibe, the moments you record become part of its story, and they take on the vibe's world (SKY, LAND, or DEEP). A vibe is the shared thread; the moments are the beads on it.

They stay inside the vibe, both while it is running and afterward. Everyone at the gathering sees them in its live story, and a valid Vibe invite lets its holder read that live story too. They don't go out onto the map, and an ordinary Moment link cannot open sealed contributions. Publishing a Moment later adds it to the vibe's story; it never creates a separate Moment pin on the map.

When the Vibe ends, each sealed moment is visible only to its author in the close-out review. The author can publish it inside the vibe or bin it. Until then it is not part of the recap and cannot be opened through the Vibe's link; the link shows published moments only after the gathering has ended.

The heart and the vibe talk​

Besides its moments, every vibe has two small social touches of its own:

  • The heart. One tap that says the gathering itself was worth having. The first time you ever heart a particular vibe, it costs one energy credit and gives 1 $MAIN shared by the people who make the gathering what it is: half goes to the vibe's hosts and half to its attendees, split evenly within each group, with you — the one giving the heart — always left out of the sharing. After that first one, you can take your heart back and give it again freely — the credit is only ever spent once, and what the room earned stays earned.
  • The vibe talk. A comment thread that belongs to the gathering as a whole, not to any one moment. Leaving a comment costs one energy credit, like any comment. Comments in the talk can be hearted too, under the same rule as the vibe's own heart: your first heart on a particular comment costs one credit and gives 1 $MAIN to the Main who wrote it.

As everywhere in Main's World, appreciation never pays the person giving it: hearting your own vibe or your own comment spends the credit but mints nothing. The details live in The economy.

When it ends, choose what to publish​

Ending a vibe does not publish anything. Your unpublished moments become yours alone in the close-out review. For each one, choose:

  • Publish in Vibe, to add it to the gathering's shared story.
  • Bin it, to delete it.

Undecided moments stay private. Publishing keeps the moment inside its vibe; it does not place an individual pin on the map or add it to the ordinary Moments list.

Return to a past vibe​

Past vibes remain available beyond 30 days. Use time travel to return to when a gathering happened, select its pin, and open its recap. Backstage's Past vibes shelf also keeps the gatherings you were on, newest first. An ended vibe appears in its past time, not as a gathering happening now.

The recap contains every moment its author has published, in the order it happened. Open a moment inside the vibe to read it; moving between moments stays within that vibe. Closing returns to the gathering without changing your map position or time. Photos and videos remain part of the story.

The same audience rules apply after the gathering ends. A private vibe does not become public with age, and unpublished moments stay out of its recap. Existing deletion and moderation rules still apply.

The recap's share button uses the vibe's own link. Members can create a new special link for a private recap, and hosts can revoke the vibe's links. Each link still has its own expiry: keeping a past vibe available does not restore an expired or revoked invitation. A link to just one moment does not give its reader access to other moments or private details of the vibe.

Plan a vibe ahead​

A vibe doesn't have to start right now. On LAND and DEEP — your connections' world and your private one — you can set one up like an event:

  • Pick a start time, up to 60 days out. Until then the vibe waits on the map as a countdown pin, and joining it is an RSVP — everyone who joined is on it the moment it goes live.
  • Pick an end time, if you want one. With an end stated, the vibe runs until then and wraps up on time. Without one, it fades on its own once the gathering goes quiet.
  • Pick a place. A vibe normally drops right where you're standing. For a planned vibe, search for a nearby venue or full address, or choose the exact spot under the crosshair on the map. Search follows the part of the map you're viewing, which makes it easier to find the right local result.

Vibes in the public SKY always start right now — a public broadcast is a live thing.

Browse what's happening​

The VIBES list works like a small agenda. It keeps nearby gatherings together before the global list. Inside each group, it separates gatherings that are live now from ones happening today and ones coming later. Planned vibes stay in start time order, so an RSVP does not make the list jump around.

A planned vibe shows its start time and world before you open it, plus its distance from you when location is available.

RSVP with your Mains​

If one of your Mains invited you, the planned vibe shows that you're invited. Tap Count me in to RSVP; once you do, it shows that you're in.

Any person already on a vibe can invite one of their Mains. When your Mains are going too, the agenda may show up to two of their names and pictures. If their names are not available, it uses a generic count instead. It does not name strangers in the compact agenda. Inside the vibe, you and your Mains appear first in the attendance list.

Once you're in — whether you started the vibe or RSVP'd — Add to calendar prepares a private calendar entry for your phone or browser. It includes the vibe's name, start time, optional end time, and place. Main's World does not connect to or read your calendar. The entry can bring you back to the map, but it is not an invitation link and does not give anyone access to a private vibe.

When the doors open​

While a planned vibe you joined is live, it appears in your Main's World notifications as Doors open. If the app is open — or you return while the vibe is still live — it also shows a one-time Enter vibe prompt on that device. Either one takes you straight to the gathering, even when it is in a different world.

These are in-app notices, not phone push notifications while the app is closed.

Find your way there​

Every vibe keeps the full place name and address you selected instead of shortening it to a street name. Tap the location and it opens in your phone's maps app, ready for directions. Calendar entries use that same saved place.

Let people watch from outside​

If you're on a vibe, you can share it as a Vibe invite link — a web link that lets anyone open the vibe in any browser. A valid invite starts visitors as read-only guests, so they can see the same vibe context an authorized viewer can see: live or sealed moments, media, map and time details, comments, and the overall reaction totals.

Guests can watch, but every write — including posting, commenting, or reacting — needs a World App sign-in. The sign-in handoff keeps the same vibe and moment context, but it never posts the action someone had started. If the visitor was already signed in, opening a valid Vibe invite joins them automatically. If they sign in from the guest view, they return to that same place and join then.

This automatic joining applies only to Vibe invite links. Moment links and other special links remain read-only windows, even for someone who is signed in.

When you send an invite link, it previews as the event: the vibe's name, its cover, when the doors open in the venue's local time, and the place. Anyone who sees the message sees that much, so share the link where you'd be happy to announce the vibe. A public SKY vibe's link previews the same way, no invite needed. Once a vibe has ended, or its links are turned off, the link goes back to a plain "A Vibe on Main's World" preview.

Anyone on the vibe can create an invite link, and the vibe shows everyone on it whether a link is currently live. Turning them off is a host's call: a host can revoke all of that vibe's links at once, and every copy stops working. There's more on how special links respect the worlds in the worlds & privacy.

What's here today, and what's coming​

Live vibes, planned-ahead vibes, named hosts, RSVPs, calendar entries, doors-open notices, and invitations to your existing Mains work today — so do the close-out decisions when a vibe ends and the recap reel it leaves behind. Bigger ideas — letting someone participate without World App sign-in, and turning gatherings into lasting groups — are on the Roadmap. We label what's live and what's still ahead so this page stays honest.

Next: Crews — when a group becomes a lasting thing.