Communities
Join anonymous communities built around your interests
A Hive combines posts, live chat, members, roles, rules, and moderation in one interest-based community. Join an existing Hive or create a place people can return to.
- Posts
- Live chat
- Roles
- Invites
- Moderation
Join an existing Hive or create your own in under a minute.
Inside the feature
What a Hive gives you that a random match cannot
-
01
Continuity
The same people, repeatedly. Jokes develop. Context accumulates. You stop re-introducing yourself.
-
02
A shared reason to be there
Everyone showed up for the same interest, so the conversation starts several steps in rather than at "hey".
-
03
Its own rules
Each Hive sets its own tone and standards. A place for late-night venting and a place for a niche hobby should not be governed identically.
-
04
Slow and fast at once
A post feed for things worth keeping, and live chat for things that only matter for ten minutes.
Step by step
Running one, if you start one
Creating a Hive is direct. The interesting part is what you do afterwards.
- 01
Create it and give it a cover
Name, description and cover image. The description does more work than people expect; it is the filter for who joins.
- 02
Set the rules before you need them
Rules written after the first bad argument always read as a reaction. Written first, they read as culture.
- 03
Bring keepers in early
Roles and keeper invites let you share moderation. A Hive that depends on one person checking it is a Hive with a single point of failure.
- 04
Seed it, do not launch it
Invite a handful of people and post a few times yourself. Empty communities stay empty; ones with three conversations already running do not.
Keep this in mind
Small is the point
The instinct is to grow a Hive as large as possible. Resist it. The communities people actually stay in tend to be the ones where they recognise most of the names. Past a few hundred active members, a Hive starts behaving like a feed instead of a room.
When a Hive is the right fit
A Hive is built for return visits: the same names, shared jokes, and a feed that still makes sense a week later. If you want one conversation tonight and do not need that continuity yet, Instant Match, Smart Match, or World Mode will get you talking faster. You can always join a Hive once a topic or group of people is worth coming back to.
World Mode is the better first stop when the appeal is proximity and spontaneity rather than a topic. You are not showing up for book recommendations or a standing joke. You are showing up because someone interesting is near the bridge right now.
Choose a Hive when you want a place with memory. Matching and World Mode are how many of those relationships start; the Hive is where they keep going.
Inside the feature
What members actually do day to day
Most activity in a healthy Hive rotates between three rhythms.
-
01
Posts that stay
Questions, polls, images, and longer thoughts in the Hive feed. They persist so newcomers can read what the community is about.
-
02
Live chat for right now
Quick back and forth when something only matters for the next ten minutes. It does not need to live in the feed forever.
-
03
Roles and keeping order
Keepers set rules, handle reports, and hand off moderation. Members mostly just participate, but the tools exist when a Hive outgrows one person babysitting it.
Quick answers
Questions people actually ask
The short version of the questions people usually need answered before they begin.
What is a Hive?
An interest-based community inside BuzzChat with its own posts, live chat, member list, roles, rules and moderation tools.
Can I create my own Hive?
Yes. Creation is direct: name it, describe it, add a cover, set the rules and invite people.
Are Hives anonymous?
You participate under the same private identity you use everywhere else on BuzzChat. Members see your nickname, not who you are.
Who moderates a Hive?
Its keepers, using the role and moderation tools, on top of the platform-wide moderation that applies everywhere.
How do invites work?
Hives can be joined directly or through invites, and keeper invites hand moderation responsibility to someone you trust.
Can I leave a Hive without drama?
Yes. Leave anytime. You stop seeing its feed and live chat. Your posts and comments already made stay unless you delete them yourself.
Keep exploring
Where to go next
Anonymous posts
The posting layer Hives are built on, and how it works outside them.
Open page →
World Mode
The other way to find people: geography rather than shared interest.
Open page →
How BuzzChat works
Where Hives sit next to matching, World Mode, and DMs.
Open page →
Safety center
Platform moderation plus what keepers can do inside a Hive.
Open page →