Settings

Finish setting up your site

This site doesn't have an admin yet. Enter the SETUP_KEY from your server's docker-compose.yml to make this account the admin. After that, the key does nothing.

Stream setup Offline

Put these into OBS under Settings → Stream, with Service set to Custom. Your channel is at .

1. Encoder: x264 or your GPU's H.264 encoder, rate control CBR, 3000–6000 Kbps. (With SRT, OBS picks the right format by itself.)
2. AV1 also works over RTMP, if your graphics card supports it (NVIDIA RTX 40-series or newer, AMD RX 7000, Intel Arc). It looks great at lower bitrates (try 2500–4500 Kbps), but some viewers, mainly on older Apple devices, can't play it and see a message instead. H.264 is the safe choice.
3. Keyframe interval: 1 s. This keeps the delay low.
4. Audio: AAC. Then press Start Streaming, and your channel goes live within a few seconds.

Post to your own Discord server each time you go live, with your title and a snapshot of the stream. Reconnects don't post twice, and streams that end within 20 seconds don't post at all.

The site's address isn't set (PUBLIC_URL), so announcements can't include a link or a picture yet. Ask the site's admin to set it.

Show your chat on your stream. Pick a look, copy the link, and add it to OBS as a Browser source. The background is see-through, so it sits on top of your game or camera.

1. In OBS, under Sources, press + and choose Browser.
2. Paste the link into URL. Set Width to 400 and Height to 600 (or whatever fits your layout).
3. Press OK, then drag it into a corner. New messages appear at the bottom.

The overlay doesn't count as a viewer. Deleted messages and bans disappear from it straight away. For reading and moderating chat while you stream, use Pop out chat above the chat on your channel page.

Show your stream on your own website or blog. Paste this code into the page. It plays when you're live, shows your offline image when you're not, and links back here. The chat beside it is read-only, with a link to chat on Zylfr.

Pop-up alerts on your stream, with a sound, when someone follows, sends sapphires, redeems a reward or raids you. Add it to OBS as a Browser source covering your whole scene.

1. In OBS, add a Browser source, paste the link into URL, and set it to your canvas size (usually 1920 × 1080).
2. To adjust the alert volume in OBS's mixer, tick Control audio via OBS in the source's settings.
3. Press a test button below. The alert pops up in OBS (and anywhere else the link is open), so you can check the look and the sound.

Alerts queue up and play one at a time. Someone unfollowing and following again within an hour won't trigger a second alert.

Swap the built-in icon and sound for your own, for each kind of alert. Pictures: PNG, JPEG, WebP or an animated GIF, up to 30 MB, shown above the alert (shrunk to fit 600×600). Sounds: MP3, OGG or WAV, up to 5 MB; a sound longer than the alert stops when the alert goes. Changes reach OBS straight away.

Shown in your player while you're offline, and on your channel's card on the home page. Without one, your channel looks as it does now. Fitted to 16:9 (1280×720 looks best). PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF, up to 5 MB.

Channel details

Viewers see changes as soon as you save, including the stream title. Your channel's name is your account name; change it under Account.

Streaming

Streaming isn't turned on for your account yet. An admin can switch it on for you in the admin panel.

Community

You can also do all of this from your chat: /mod name, /unmod name, /ban name and /unban name.

Mods get a mod tag in your chat and can ban, unban and clear chat. They can't ban you, other mods or Staff.

Regulars you want to recognise. VIPs get a ✦ VIP badge, skip slow mode and can always post links, but they can't moderate. In chat: /vip name, /unvip name.

Stream stats

How your streams are going. Viewers are people with your channel open, counted every 30 seconds. Streams under a minute (like quick tests) aren't counted, and a reconnect within 3 minutes counts as the same stream.

Hosting

While you're offline, your channel page can play a friend's live stream, with a banner saying who it is. Your chat stays yours, so your community stays together. It stops when you go live, or when their stream ends. In chat: /host name and /unhost (your mods can too).

Goals

Up to 3 progress bars, shown under your stream and in an OBS overlay. When one's reached, chat celebrates. "This stream" goals start from zero each time you go live.

In OBS, add a Browser source with this address (width 600, height 300). It has a see-through background, and celebrates when a goal is reached. Add &style=light for light bars.

Chat commands

When someone types a command in your chat, like !discord, Zylfr answers with your reply. No bot needed. You and your mods can also manage them from chat: /command add name reply, /command edit name reply, /command remove name. !commands lists them.

Rewards

Your channel's own currency, cakes, separate from sapphires (which work across the whole site). Viewers earn them only here, and spend them on your rewards and predictions. You can rename them and change the icon to make them yours.

Your rewards. Each one costs either your cakes or sapphires. Redemptions show up in chat and in the reward queue on your channel page, where you or your mods mark them done or refund them.

Emotes

Images people can use in your chat by typing :name:, or by picking them from the emoji button. PNG, GIF (animated works), WebP or JPEG, up to 30 MB and 1254×1254 pixels. They're shrunk to fit 112×112 for chat (animation kept), so square images look best. The number you can have is shown next to Your emotes.

Choose an image

Name

:: Upload

2–20 letters, numbers or underscores.

Stickers

Bigger pictures people send into your chat on their own, from the sticker button. Make each one free, or charge sapphires (they come to you, like sent sapphires) or cakes every time it's sent. Same files as emotes (up to 30 MB and 1254×1254), shown at up to 120×120. You always send your own for free. Up to 30.

Cakes are off, so stickers priced in cakes are hidden from viewers until you turn them back on (in Rewards).

Partner program

Zylfr Partners get a Partner badge in every chat, their channel shown first on the home page while they're live, more emote and sticker slots, and their own colours on their channel page. Hit the goals below and an admin can make you a Partner.

You've hit every goal. 🎉 An admin will look at your channel; you don't need to apply.

Moderation

These apply to regular viewers. You, your mods and Staff aren't affected.

In chat: /timeout name 10 (minutes), /untimeout name, /slow 30, /slow off. Mods can also delete single messages with the bin button that appears on hover.

Account

An animated ring around your picture, shown everywhere your picture is.

A bot is a program that chats for this account, for example answering !commands or welcoming people. It connects to chat with a token instead of a password. A token only works for chat: it can't change your settings or password.

Bot tokens need an admin's approval on this site. Ask an admin to approve your account, then come back here.

Download a copy of everything Zylfr holds about you. The Privacy Notice explains what's kept and why.

Reports you've sent to the admins, and whether they've been looked at.

Lost a device or used a shared computer? This logs you out on every browser, including this one.