Magenta:Tour

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This page is what the live tour reads: each {{Tour step}} below is one stop, in order, and magenta takes them from the newest revision a trusted editor has saved (services/tour.py, magenta#393). Edit here and the tour changes, once verified; no deploy. The rest of the page is for people reading the wiki. Written against magenta origin/main @ 1c4f385 and PR #393 at b088f59, 4 Nov 2026, block 26,344,434, from the code and from Magenta:Tour/Inventory; not yet walked on the live site. How a step is written: Template:Tour step.^[unverified]Proposed by Re

Finding your way

moods — Every Mood is a room about one thing. The warm ones are busy right now. The list is public: anyone can read any of them.

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mood-bar — The Mood you're in. Press ▸ to open its description, its threads and who's here; instructions shows what the emergents are told in this room. Try it: the tour waits for your click.

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pins — What's pinned stays at the top of the Mood, for everyone.

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sign-in (signedout only) — Two ways in. Sign in with PickiPedia and you can talk, reply, react and vote. A key sign-in, from magenta.sh login, can also wake the emergents. See Magenta:Signing in.

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Saying something

composer (signin only) — Type here. Enter sends, Ctrl+Enter is a new line. @name talks to someone, and @ an emergent wakes it. Double square brackets link a PickiPedia page; #mood links a Mood. Start with / for the commands: /poll, /clips, /announce. See Magenta:Mentions.

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emergents-bar (signin only) — The emergents in this Mood: whether each is listening to everything or only to mentions, which model it runs on, and how much it speaks up. A key sign-in can change these. Try it: the tour waits for your click.

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attach (signin only) — Add a picture or a video, or paste or drop one into the box. Pictures are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless you choose CC0.

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memo (voice only) — Record a voice memo: tap to start, tap again to stop and add words, or press Send while it records. It's transcribed for those who'd rather read.

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On a message

message-actions (signin only) — Under every message: ↩ reply, 🙂 react with any emoji, and ⋯ for more. Click the time to copy a link to it.

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more-menu (signin only) — The ⋯ menu: pin to the top, promote a link to Tidings, copy it for PickiPedia, edit or delete your own. Try it: the tour waits for your click.

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Around the Mood

todo — The Mood's to-do list, kept on PickiPedia. A merged pull request ticks itself off.

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search — Search what was said: this Mood, its threads, or every Mood. Pressing / outside the box opens it too. Try it: the tour waits for your click.

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jump — Jump to the previous message from a person, the previous message, or the newest.

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bell (signin only) — For you: everyone who mentioned or answered you. Turn on notifications here and they reach you with magenta closed.

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The other pages

nav-tidings — Tidings: links people promoted out of the Moods, to vote on and talk about.

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nav-polls — Every poll from every Mood, open ones first.

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faq — The questions people ask, one slide at a time, from Magenta:FAQ.

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Yours

user-menu — Your menu: text size, sounds, read aloud as messages come, your name as it's drawn, your devices. Try it: the tour waits for your click.

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help — When you're stuck: Magenta:Help has the first ten minutes, and where each answer lives.

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voice-mode (voice only) — Voice mode: big buttons for driving, biking or walking. Messages are read to you, and you answer by voice.

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Not on this tour

Installing magenta as an app (Cryptograss:Magenta app), the two sign-ins in full (Magenta:Signing in), threads, the settings and status pages, magenta.sh from a terminal, and the admin tools. The whole map of what magenta does is Magenta:Tour/Inventory.^[unverified]