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Your Account
Your private Account area is the main place to manage your ProfoundSyntax identity, content, preferences, security settings, notifications, saved content, followed discussions, and other member tools.
Free and Pro Membership
Free and Pro members can use the core ProfoundSyntax community. Pro adds higher or expanded limits and selected premium features. Current limits are shown in Account → Pro Membership and in the relevant Community owner workspace. A member’s Community ownership allowance is separate from the number of Wiki pages allowed inside each Community.
If Pro ends while you are above a Free-tier capacity, ProfoundSyntax generally preserves existing content where the feature says it will, while pausing new creation or Pro-only behavior until the account is back within the current allowance or Pro is restored.
ProfoundSyntax Live Membership Features
Eligible Free creators can use the core Live workflow, Public and logged-in audience options, Community-member audience where applicable, creator offline/social branding, and manual current-frame social capture. Pro currently adds Pro-member audience targeting and automatic recurring social-preview snapshots for eligible Public broadcasts.
If a broadcast already uses a Pro-member audience when Pro later ends, the setting is preserved but starting that broadcast pauses until Pro returns or you choose a Free-capable audience. An automatic social-snapshot preference is also preserved but pauses while Pro is inactive. Manual social capture remains available.
Core Live Chat is available to eligible Free and Pro members on broadcasts they are authorized to watch. Guests may read Chat on a broadcast whose audience permits guest viewing, but posting requires an eligible signed-in account. Essential blocking, reporting, message removal, timeouts, Chat bans, and moderation are safety features and are not Pro-only upgrades. Later Pro Chat enhancements may add capacity, automation, customization, or analytics without removing these baseline protections from Free members.
Live Chat is audience-scoped broadcast conversation, not Private Chat. Each eligible message has a compact three-dot action menu. When the sender’s profile is Public, that menu can include View profile. Report and Block are ordinary-member safety actions; viewers who currently have Live Chat moderation authority instead receive only the direct moderation actions their role is allowed to use. Ordinary members may report eligible creator, Community-owner, moderator, or member messages. Active moderators of that Community cannot Report or Block their own Community owner or that Community stream’s creator, including moderator presets without Live Chat sanction authority. Valid reports about the stream creator or Community owner require site-staff review and cannot be dismissed by the subject or subordinate Community moderators. Broadcast creators, Community owners, Full Moderators, custom moderators explicitly granted Moderate Live Chat, and site moderation staff may receive role-appropriate moderation actions. Content Moderator and Report Reviewer presets do not receive Live Chat sanction authority by default. Protected site operational staff accounts are not valid Live Chat Report, Block, Remove, Timeout, or Ban targets.
Using Live Chat
When Live Chat is enabled, authorized viewers see it beside the Watch player on larger screens and below the player on smaller screens. Chat opens for posting while the broadcast is Starting or Live. After the broadcast ends, retained Chat history becomes read-only. The creator can turn Chat off or back on from Live Studio at any time; turning it off hides the conversation from ordinary viewers but does not delete the retained broadcast-scoped history. For safety-tool abuse protection, ordinary members may submit up to three message reports per broadcast, cannot report the same message twice, and must pause briefly between reports. Live Chat also uses bounded burst/sustained posting and repeated-action safeguards. In Live Studio, changing the per-broadcast Live Chat switch saves automatically; while the update is being confirmed, the Live Studio controls are temporarily locked to prevent overlapping changes.
The Community control switches the Chat body to a current-participant view that separates the broadcaster, eligible Live moderators, and other signed-in viewers; anonymous viewers are represented only by a count. Use Go back to chat to return without reloading the Watch page. On supported desktop layouts, Expand chat can use available browser height for a taller Chat panel and Reset chat height returns to the player-matched layout.
The shared Emotes / GIFs picker includes permanent Global emoji and administrator-added Global emotes for eligible Chat participants. Pro broadcasters can manage a personal broadcaster-emote library from Account → Live Emotes. If the broadcaster later loses Pro, retained custom emotes remain visible but disabled for new use until eligibility returns. Eligible Pro members and authorized staff can use the configured GIF catalog; choosing a GIF attaches it to the composer so text can be added before Send. GIF-only messages are not replyable, while a GIF with typed text can be replied to using that text as the reply context.
Use the curved Reply action on an eligible message to target that specific message. The composer protects the selected @handle from partial editing; cancel the target with its close control, Escape, or Backspace on an otherwise empty draft. Readers see who is being replied to and, when available, a short excerpt of the targeted message.
My Preferences includes viewer-side Chat Filters, Pause Chat, Screen Reader Auto Announce, and Chat Appearance controls. Chat Filters affect only your presentation and do not edit the stored message. Pause Chat stops automatic following while new messages continue arriving. Screen Reader Auto Announce can announce genuinely new eligible messages without replaying the initial history. Appearance controls include GIF visibility, timestamps, reply detail, font size, and readable-color behavior.
View Chat Rules shows the ProfoundSyntax-wide baseline plus applicable Community Rules and broadcaster Live Chat Rules. Hide Chat hides the viewer’s Chat surface until Show Chat is selected. Popout Chat opens the same authorized Chat in a dedicated browser window; while it is active, the main page pauses its Chat surface to avoid competing composers, and closing the popout restores the main Chat.
Use the message ⋮ menu for available profile, safety, and moderation actions. View profile appears only when that sender’s profile is Public. Ordinary members can use Report message for eligible unsafe or abusive messages and Block member when they do not want to see an eligible member’s Live Chat messages. Once an account has Live Chat moderation authority, those member Report/Block actions are replaced by its role-appropriate direct moderation tools. Full Moderators and custom moderators explicitly granted Moderate Live Chat can moderate ordinary participants; peer Live Chat moderators cannot sanction each other, the Community owner, the stream creator, or protected site staff. A Community owner can sanction one of that Community’s moderators inside Live Chat. Such a timeout or ban blocks that moderator from posting or moderating that broadcast Chat while active but does not remove their unrelated Community moderator permissions. Site moderation staff may directly moderate eligible Community owners, creators, moderators, or members, while reports against a creator or Community owner can be closed only by site staff. The Chat drawer control collapses Chat so the video expands; during active Live playback it appears in the video control bar immediately before Full Screen, while offline/waiting states use the edge handle. Full Screen is video-only, so the Chat drawer control is hidden while the player is in Full Screen and returns after Full Screen closes. The browser remembers the viewer’s last open/closed drawer state across refreshes.
Reporting a Live Broadcast
Eligible signed-in viewers can use Report broadcast on the Watch page after the normal audience/privacy rules authorize access. Reports use the same moderation queue, duplicate protection, and bounded report-rate safeguards as other Community reports. For a Community broadcast, the current Community owner or an active moderator with Report-review permission may review the case when they are not the broadcaster. A broadcaster cannot review a report against their own stream. Site moderation staff retain site-wide review authority. For a formal copyright notice, follow the Copyright / DMCA process linked from the report form.
Live Channels on Profiles and Communities
Public member profiles include a Live tab immediately before About. The status dot is green while an authorized broadcast is Live, amber while it is Starting, and gray while the member is Offline. When an authorized broadcast is active, the Profile Live tab uses the same ProfoundSyntax Live player and Live Chat as the individual broadcast page. When no authorized broadcast is active, the tab shows the creator’s effective offline artwork instead.
Each accessible member-created Community also has a persistent Live channel at Community → Live. An authorized Starting or Live Community broadcast can play directly in that channel with the same player and Chat. The Community Live indicator follows the same green/amber/gray state system. If a broadcast exists but the viewer does not satisfy its audience or Community-access rules, the channel does not reveal that protected activity and remains presented as Offline.
The dedicated human-readable /live/{broadcast-slug}/ page remains the permanent individual broadcast address for direct sharing, social previews, notifications, and later replay/history features. ProfoundSyntax keeps the internal broadcast identifier private from the public address, permanently reserves each public Live slug so another broadcaster cannot inherit an old URL, and redirects older identifier-based Live links to the current public address. Profile Live and Community Live are channel surfaces that reuse the same authorized broadcast rather than creating duplicate streams or separate Chat histories.
Finding Public Live Broadcasts
The global Live area is available from the main ProfoundSyntax navigation and lists broadcasts that are genuinely Public to any visitor. Live broadcasts can also appear in ProfoundSyntax search and in Live discovery modules on the main feed. The directory updates while it is open so newly started or ended Public broadcasts can appear or disappear without a manual refresh.
Protected broadcasts do not enter global Live discovery. Members-only, Community-members, Pro-only, Restricted Community, Private Community, and other viewer-restricted broadcasts stay out of the public Live directory and public Live search results. A creator whose profile is not Public is also excluded from global Public Live discovery. Authorized viewers can still reach protected broadcasts through their permitted Profile, Community, notification, or direct broadcast surfaces.
Scheduling Live and Reminders
Creators can schedule a one-time Live broadcast for a future date and time in Live Studio. ProfoundSyntax stores the schedule consistently and presents the time in the site’s configured timezone. Eligible Public scheduled broadcasts can appear under Upcoming in the Live area and in Live search before they start. A scheduled broadcast still follows the creator-profile, Community, audience, account-standing, and playback-authorization rules that apply when it goes Live, so protected schedule details are not exposed through public discovery.
Signed-in eligible members can set a reminder on an authorized scheduled broadcast and choose when the Bell should arrive: 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes before; 1, 2, 6, 12, or 24 hours before. Saving or changing a reminder confirms the preference without immediately creating a Bell. The selected Bell is delivered only when that lead-time checkpoint is reached. If a broadcast is already too close to its start for a selected lead time, ProfoundSyntax asks the member to choose a shorter available reminder instead of sending an instant late reminder.
Creator followers and members who set a reminder can still receive eligible schedule/reschedule, creator-Live, and later replay-ready Bell updates. Community mute, member blocking, current viewing authorization, and per-broadcast notification deduplication continue to apply. Live Bell links to ProfoundSyntax broadcast pages open in the current tab like other internal ProfoundSyntax destinations.
Live reminders are private member preferences. Account → Following → Live reminders lists each retained reminder with its scheduled date/time and selected lead time. Members can change the lead time or remove an individual reminder there without changing their separate Follow relationship to the creator.
Live Analytics and Capacity
The broadcaster can review private per-broadcast Live analytics in Live Studio. On Watch, Profile Live, and Community Live surfaces, a compact Broadcast analytics accordion appears directly below the player and Live Chat only for the broadcaster, site administrators, and the owner of the attached Community. It includes current viewers, peak viewers, unique viewers, minutes watched, average watch duration, and Live Chat message count. The accordion remembers each signed-in manager’s open/closed preference and refreshes its aggregate totals only while open. Ordinary viewers receive neither the analytics panel nor its protected metrics payload. Viewer analytics begin when the first-party player is actually playing; paused, hidden, ended, or unauthorized playback does not count as an active viewer.
Site administrators can review Live capacity information such as active broadcasts, current viewers, media ingress/egress pace, best-effort host CPU/RAM/disk use, and an estimated 30-day transfer pace. Administrators can configure an active-broadcast ceiling, optional no-viewer idle shutdown, resource warning thresholds, and an emergency end action. Recording-growth controls are intentionally unavailable while Recording / Replays remains deferred.
Live Video Quality
ProfoundSyntax Live accepts H.264 video with AAC audio when audio is used and expects a two-second keyframe interval. Administrators can keep a global resolution/bitrate safety ceiling and optional Free, Pro, and Staff quality entitlements; the stricter limit always wins. Free creators use one fixed up-to-720p viewer policy and ProfoundSyntax does not upscale a lower-resolution source. Eligible Pro/Staff creators can expose Auto plus the real available source/lower renditions, including 1440p, 1080p, 720p, and 480p when the source and effective ceiling support them, or Force one viewer quality while Live. Force applies to ordinary viewers. The broadcaster always retains the full eligible ladder on their own Pro/Staff stream. The broadcaster can separately choose whether trusted viewers receive all available qualities or one forced trusted quality. Trusted viewers are site staff/global moderators and—on that Community’s broadcast—the current Community owner and active moderators. An ordinary Pro member or ordinary Community member does not bypass the public viewer rule. Monitor mode reports out-of-policy bitrate/resolution without ending the stream, while Enforce mode can stop a publisher that violates an enforced codec/resolution policy. ProfoundSyntax never creates a higher-quality rendition than the actual source. Viewer playback-quality controls in Live Studio save automatically on selection changes; Live Studio is temporarily locked until each update is confirmed so overlapping changes cannot race each other.
Live captions and player accessibility
A broadcaster can enable ProfoundSyntax Live captions for a broadcast, choose the caption language, and choose Manual or Automatic caption mode when automatic speech recognition is available. Manual mode lets the broadcaster publish synchronized caption text from Live Studio without restarting the stream. Automatic mode sends the broadcast audio track through the active configured speech-recognition provider, can show a short-lived running transcript while speech is still in progress, and then places the finalized result into the same first-party caption channel. Running previews are not added to retained caption history. Administrators can choose a preferred provider and enable bounded automatic failover to another configured compatible provider for provider-specific quota, account, connection, or service failures. After a fallback remains healthy through the configured recovery probation and the preferred provider cooldown expires, ProfoundSyntax can make a staggered recovery attempt back to the preferred provider. Repeated provider-specific failures increase that provider’s cooldown up to a bounded maximum so simultaneous broadcasts do not create a retry storm. Local audio/input problems do not silently switch providers. If automatic transcription is unavailable, every compatible provider is temporarily unavailable, or the configured usage guard is reached, video playback continues normally and the broadcaster can return to Manual captions. Live-caption enablement, mode, and language selections in Live Studio save automatically and temporarily lock the Studio while each update is confirmed.
Viewers can turn captions on or off with the CC control. Player Settings → Captions also lets each viewer choose Small, Medium, Large, or Extra large caption text, place captions at the Top or Bottom of the video, and choose Standard, Strong, or Minimal caption background. Those display choices are saved only in that viewer’s browser and do not change the broadcast or another viewer’s player. Automatic running transcript previews update the visible caption surface for lower latency, while assistive-technology announcements remain tied to finalized cues so rapidly changing partial text is not repeatedly announced. Caption delivery is independent of video quality, so Auto/Force quality changes and reconnects do not intentionally disable captions. The Live player also supports keyboard shortcuts for play/pause, mute, captions, full screen, and volume, exposes state changes to assistive technology, and reduces nonessential motion when the viewer requests reduced motion.
Manual captions depend on the text supplied by the broadcaster or authorized caption operator. Automatic speech recognition can mishear names, technical terminology, accents, overlapping speech, music, or poor-quality audio, so automatic captions may contain mistakes or arrive with a short delay. Recording/replay caption-file editing and export remain part of the separately deferred Recording / Replays work.
Live playback quality follows the broadcaster, not the viewer’s membership. Free broadcasters use one fixed 720p-or-lower playback rendition. Pro and authorized staff broadcasters can allow viewers to use Auto plus every currently available rendition, or force one quality for everyone, and can change that choice while the broadcast is Live. ProfoundSyntax never upscales beyond the broadcaster’s actual source or current entitlement. If the broadcaster upgrades or loses Pro while Live, open players refresh the quality policy automatically. Lower renditions are generated only while the source is online and are not stored as replay media.
If a broadcaster connection drops after a broadcast is Live, ProfoundSyntax keeps the same broadcast recoverable during the administrator-configured broadcaster reconnect grace period. The default grace is 10 minutes, with 2, 5, 10, 15, and 30 minute choices. During that reconnect window, viewer surfaces remain in a waiting/reconnecting state, no-viewer idle shutdown is suspended, and bitrate protection does not act on a stale pre-disconnect sample. If the Live media control plane itself is unavailable, reconnect grace is paused rather than consumed. A successful OBS reconnection resumes the same broadcast and restarts the no-viewer idle window. If the publisher remains confirmed offline through the full grace period, ProfoundSyntax ends the broadcast automatically.
Cleaning Up Finished Live Broadcasts
Live Studio includes a paginated Your broadcasts history manager so creators can review retained current, scheduled, finished, and removed broadcasts without an ever-growing single list. Filters separate current/upcoming, Scheduled, Finished, Removed, and all retained records, with selectable page sizes. An Ended or Failed broadcast can be removed individually, or creators can use Remove finished in bulk. Removing moves the record out of the normal history view and into Removed; it does not bypass the site’s retention policy or destroy moderation/safety records immediately.
Site administrators control how long finished non-replay Live records are retained before permanent cleanup. If the retention age is one day, for example, an eligible Ended, Failed, or Removed record older than one day is permanently deleted by the lifecycle cleaner. Administrators also have a paginated/filterable broadcast-record manager with terminal-record checkboxes, Delete Selected, and a deliberate Permanently Delete All Finished action for test/maintenance cleanup. Draft, Scheduled, Starting, Live, and reserved replay states are protected from these manual bulk-delete actions. Permanent cleanup also removes the broadcast’s retained Live Chat rows, sanctions/reports, reminder relationships, and obsolete Live Bell rows through the existing cleanup hooks.
Live in a Community
A Community owner can open Live Studio directly from the Community Owner Workspace and create a broadcast attached to that Community. The Community is preselected when Live Studio is opened from that owner link. Community moderators do not automatically receive broadcaster controls.
When an eligible Community broadcast is Starting or Live, authorized viewers can see the Community Live state and open the persistent Community Live channel or the canonical individual broadcast page. Protected broadcasts are not advertised to viewers who do not have access. Private Community visibility, Community bans, account standing, and the broadcast’s own audience rules continue to apply.
Member-Created Communities
Eligible members can create Communities with Public, Restricted, or Private visibility. Community owners can manage local rules, moderators, membership, appearance, Wiki pages, Highlights, scheduled content, moderation tools, and other available Community settings. Site-wide Terms, Privacy Policy, Rules, and administrator safety controls always remain authoritative.
Free and Pro Community-ownership limits are separate from feature capacities inside each Community. Check the Start a Community and Pro Membership screens for the current ownership allowance.
Community Wikis
A Community Wiki is a structured resource area owned by a Community. Saved Draft, Pending Review, Private, and Published Wiki pages count toward the Community’s active Wiki capacity; trashed/deleted pages do not. Current Free and Pro Wiki limits appear in the Wiki owner workspace and Pro Membership page.
If a Community owner loses Pro while above the Free Wiki allowance, existing Wiki pages remain available for normal editing/removal, but new Wiki-page creation pauses until the Community is below the current Free limit or Pro is restored.
GitHub Integration and Wiki Sync
Eligible Active Public Communities can optionally connect a GitHub repository controlled by the Community owner. Wiki pages can be mapped to Markdown files for reviewed Pull/Push transfers. Automatic sync, when enabled, can run Pull-only, Push-only, or two-way on the selected schedule.
Automatic sync never intentionally guesses through a two-sided conflict. Conflicted mappings pause for owner review. Disconnecting the integration does not delete the Community Wiki pages or GitHub files; it removes the connection and synchronization state according to the current integration workflow.
Private Chat, Group Chat, and Mod Mail
Private Chat lets eligible members communicate according to profile visibility, shared-Community, blocking, Chat preference, and account-safety rules. Group Chat extends that same private system to an administrator-configured number of eligible members. Administrators can set separate Free and Pro participant maximums, including the owner; the Pro maximum is always at least the Free maximum. The Group Chat owner’s current Free/Pro entitlement determines that group’s effective cap. If a Pro owner later becomes Free while the group is already above the Free cap, no participant is automatically removed; additional invitations stay unavailable until the group is back within the owner’s current limit. A Group Chat owner can name the group, invite eligible members, remove participants, and pass ownership automatically when explicitly leaving if another accepted member can take over. An invited member must accept before participating and sees group history only from the invitation cutoff forward. Archive is a reversible personal organization action. Delete chat is available from an archived Group Chat and removes only that member’s retained history through the deletion cutoff; it does not leave the group or delete the Group Chat for other members. Leave group is a separate action that changes membership and may require ownership transfer.
After a one-to-one Chat request is accepted, eligible members may attach local images and videos to Direct or Group Chat messages. The Photo, Video, and File controls are kept together in one compact toolbar so the conversation remains readable. A question-mark help control beside the Private lock opens a readable media legend on click or tap; the legend explains the current Free/Pro maximum item count, MB per item, image/video dimensions, permitted file extensions, and Pro-only File requirement without crowding the composer with per-button tooltips. Site administrators can configure Chat-specific limits, but the global Community Media settings, server upload ceiling, storage quota, and entitlement rules remain the maximum safety boundary. General file attachments are Pro-only. By default, Chat favors conservative document/data formats such as PDF, TXT, MD, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, and YML; archive formats such as ZIP are not enabled for Chat by default and should be enabled only deliberately. Pending one-to-one Chat requests remain text-only so an unknown member cannot send unsolicited media before acceptance. Chat media is stored as encrypted private media and delivered through authenticated conversation access checks; it is not published as an ordinary public Community upload. Images and videos are scaled to fit the Chat drawer and can be clicked to open the private Chat media viewer. File attachments open a private file-information panel rather than executing or rendering arbitrary member-supplied document contents in the page. The Chat viewer provides a protected Download action for authorized images, videos, and files; downloading still requires the same signed conversation authorization and does not create a public media URL. Removing a message removes its associated private Chat media. File attachments are type/size validated and delivered as downloads; ProfoundSyntax does not represent that every member-uploaded file has been antivirus scanned, so use normal caution before opening files from other members.
If you select a ProfoundSyntax language different from the site’s default language and keep Auto-translate eligible content enabled, eligible Private Chat message text can be translated for your view through the ProfoundSyntax local translator. The original stored Chat message is not replaced. A small Show Original / Show Translation control appears on messages when a translated display is available. Private Chat message translation never falls back to the cloud translation provider; if the local translator is unavailable, the original message remains visible. Administrators can disable Private Chat message translation separately under Languages & Translation.
Mod Mail provides a private Community moderation channel. Use the available Report and Block controls when needed; private communication remains subject to the Rules.
Ask ProfoundSyntax Browser Extension
Ask ProfoundSyntax is designed to turn material you deliberately select in your browser into a ProfoundSyntax Question draft. It does not automatically upload an entire webpage and it never publishes a Question for you.
When the browser extension client is connected to your account, it can send selected text, selected code, or a source URL to a short-lived draft handoff. ProfoundSyntax strips common tracking parameters from the source URL and removes credential-like URL parameters when detected. If selected content appears to contain a password, private key, access token, or similar credential, the handoff warns you before continuing.
The returned draft opens on the normal ProfoundSyntax submission page. Review the exact transferred selection, edit or remove anything you do not want to share, choose the required Topic and any other applicable posting fields, and submit manually. All normal account, moderation, Community, anti-abuse, and posting rules still apply.
You can create, rotate, or disconnect the extension key from Account → Apps & Integrations. The full key is shown only when it is created or rotated. Rotating or disconnecting it invalidates the previous key and any unexpired draft handoffs associated with that key.
Report a Bug / Suggest a Feature
Account → My Feedback lets participating members submit private bug reports or feature suggestions and follow their status. Bug reports may include privacy-limited technical diagnostics to help reproduce the problem. You can review the technical details before submission and choose whether to include recent sanitized script errors.
Optional screenshots are treated as private Feedback attachments and are processed for private storage rather than published as ordinary public media.
Account Security
Depending on site configuration, security options may include authenticator-app multi-factor authentication, a ProfoundSyntax Security PIN, one-time recovery codes, verified-email recovery, trusted browsers, linked social sign-in providers, session controls, and sensitive-change verification.
Never share authenticator secrets, recovery codes, passwords, or private credentials in a public Thread.
Lost Access to MFA
If you cannot use your preferred security method, use another enrolled recovery method when available. Administrator-assisted recovery may require account-ownership verification and may be recorded for security purposes.
Profiles and Public Identity
Your Public @Handle
Your ProfoundSyntax @handle is your public community identity and is separate from your underlying login credential. Handle changes may be limited by a cooldown period and are subject to availability, reserved-name rules, impersonation protection, and former-handle reservation periods.
Profile Visibility
Depending on available settings, your profile and activity may be public, visible to members, or private. Profile fields may include a biography, profile image, website, GitHub link, technology interests, reputation, badges, and recent community contributions.
Real-Name Review and Verified Identity
ProfoundSyntax may require first-name and last-name information for community participation or identity features depending on current site policy. Eligible members may also be able to request optional identity verification. A verified badge does not mean the member is endorsed by ProfoundSyntax or guaranteed to be an expert.
Developer Projects
Account → Projects lets eligible members create structured developer Project records. A Project can include a title, short summary, detailed description, development status, Public/Members-only/Private/Draft visibility, technologies, demo/documentation/package links, repository links, an image gallery, related ProfoundSyntax Communities/Discussions/Wiki/Blog content, and collaborators.
Enter exact ProfoundSyntax handles to invite collaborators. Invitations appear privately in the recipient’s Account → Projects area and through the Bell notification system. After acceptance, the collaborator is publicly credited and receives bounded editing access to Project status, summary/details, technologies, Demo/Documentation/Package links, and gallery media. The Project owner retains control over the Project title, visibility, collaborator membership, repository sources, related-content relationships, GitHub synchronization, and Trash.
Project cover/hero artwork allows one cover and one optional hero image per Project outside the gallery-count allowance while reusing the existing Community image type, file-size, dimension, and total storage-quota controls. Project gallery uploads continue to use administrator-configurable Free and Pro image-count limits specifically for Projects. GitHub metadata synchronization remains optional and owner-controlled. Only authorized public repositories from Account → Apps & Integrations can be selected; private GitHub repositories are not offered and are never published implicitly.
A Projects tab on eligible developer profiles shows only Projects the current viewer is allowed to see, including accepted collaborator attribution. Related ProfoundSyntax links are also permission-aware, so a viewer does not gain access to a Private Community, protected Discussion, or restricted Wiki page merely because it is linked from a Project.
Hosted Projects and Build Lifecycle
Choose Hosted Demo to upload a ZIP containing eligible static Project files. ProfoundSyntax first places the ZIP in private quarantine, validates paths, file types, sizes, compression behavior and file integrity, then converts accepted source into an immutable Draft Build. Publishing is always a separate owner/site-management action. Replacing source or saving Code Canvas creates a new Draft Build instead of rewriting the active published build in place. Preview Draft Build lets eligible editors test before publishing; retained non-active builds can be rolled back or manually deleted according to current permissions and retention policy.
Code Canvas is a browser HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing surface for eligible files from a validated build. Unsaved preview runs in an isolated browser sandbox and does not receive ProfoundSyntax session access or outbound network access. Other allowed hosted assets remain preserved in the immutable source even when Canvas does not edit them. Validation and sandboxing reduce risk but do not guarantee source is safe. Remove passwords, API keys, access tokens, private certificates, recovery codes, private encryption keys and other secrets before upload, Canvas save, publication or source sharing.
For Projects that need simple browser-local saves, choose the Persistent Browser App Runtime profile. Project code can use the asynchronous ProfoundSyntaxStorage interface for Project-scoped values while direct localStorage, direct IndexedDB, Workers, Service Workers, external networking, and threaded WebAssembly remain unavailable to the member sandbox. Saved values stay in the current browser/device rather than being synchronized to the ProfoundSyntax server. The hosted viewer provides Clear Saved Data for that Project. Unsaved Canvas Preview does not provide the complete hosted Runtime storage bridge, so persistence should be tested through Preview Draft Build or Run Demo.
For Projects that need browser-local files and directories rather than key/value saves, choose OPFS Browser App. Project code uses the asynchronous ProfoundSyntaxOPFS interface backed by the browser Origin Private File System in the trusted isolated Runtime shell. OPFS data is scoped to that Project in the current browser and is not synchronized to the ProfoundSyntax server. Browser site-data clearing, private-browsing behavior, storage pressure, or browser policy can remove or deny local OPFS data. The member Project remains opaque and does not receive direct origin storage authority.
Ren’Py Web Projects use a dedicated compatibility profile for standard non-threaded Ren’Py browser exports. The isolated Runtime adapts Ren’Py/Emscripten save synchronization to trusted browser-local Project storage instead of granting the member document direct IndexedDB or origin-storage authority. Ren’Py Web saves are local to that Project in the current browser and may be removed by browser site-data clearing, private-browsing behavior, storage pressure, or browser policy. The generated Ren’Py Service Worker is not activated by this profile.
Hosted Project Quarantine and Reports
If a package fails validation, authorized site administrators can review the private quarantine record, inspect safe file metadata/text previews, retry eligible operational failures, approve only narrowly eligible extension-policy exceptions through full revalidation, or permanently delete the quarantine. Hard safety failures such as traversal, symbolic links, executable/server files, nested archives, unsafe compression behavior or content mismatches are not bypassed by the review workflow. Site administrators can also configure automatic quarantine retention and bulk cleanup.
Viewers can use Report Demo on an eligible hosted Project to send the Project to the existing moderation report queue. A report does not automatically delete or publish a build; authorized moderation staff review the report under the normal ProfoundSyntax moderation workflow.
Package Ecosystems
When a Project’s Package URL points to a supported npm, PyPI, Packagist, or NuGet package page, ProfoundSyntax can add a package card showing the registry’s current public version metadata and a version-specific installation command. No package-registry account connection is required.
Save the Project after adding or changing the Package URL to request fresh public metadata. ProfoundSyntax caches successful metadata and can refresh it periodically in the background. If a registry is unavailable, disabled by an administrator, or the URL is not a recognized package page, the Package URL remains a normal Project link and Project saving is not blocked.
GitHub Smart Cards
On supported Discussion, Reply, and Wiki composers, choose the GitHub Smart Card tool, paste a public github.com Repository, Issue, Pull Request, or Release URL, and preview the public metadata before inserting it. A normal GitHub link remains a normal link unless you deliberately use the Smart Card tool.
Authorized Blog editorial staff can use the GitHub Smart Card panel in the Blog post editor to preview the same supported public GitHub resources and deliberately insert a Smart Card into an article. The Blog control reuses the existing read-only public Smart Card adapter; it does not automatically unfurl ordinary links, and Blog listing/search excerpts suppress the internal storage marker instead of exposing it to readers.
When the active visual Blog editor supports ProfoundSyntax content elements, authorized editorial staff can add a ProfoundSyntax GitHub Smart Card directly from the builder content library, enter a supported public GitHub Repository, Issue, Pull Request, or Release URL, and render it through the same strict read-only Smart Card adapter. Editors that provide only a generic Shortcode content element can instead use . Ordinary GitHub links remain ordinary links, and Blog listing/search excerpts do not expose Smart Card storage syntax.
Community Guide owners can choose GitHub Smart Card as a Guide resource type and paste a supported public GitHub Repository, Issue, Pull Request, or Release URL. The Guide shows only the fields that apply to the selected resource type, and saved GitHub Smart Card resources fall back to a safe normal GitHub link if the provider is temporarily unavailable. Private GitHub resources are not supported by this public-card feature. Smart Cards are read-only: inserting one does not create or edit GitHub Issues, Pull Requests, Releases, or repositories.
Stack Exchange Connection
Account → Apps & Integrations can connect your Stack Exchange network identity when the site administrator has configured the provider. After authorization, ProfoundSyntax discovers your associated registered Stack Exchange network site identities and lets you explicitly choose up to the administrator-configured maximum to show on your public profile.
The identity showcase always identifies the selected site and links back to the external profile; you can separately choose whether to show reputation, question/answer counts, and badge totals. After saving at least one public site identity, use Refresh Public Q&A to fetch recent public question and answer metadata from those selected sites. You can then explicitly choose up to the administrator-configured Q&A maximum to feature on your profile.
Public Q&A showcase items link to Stack Exchange and can show bounded metadata such as Question or Answer, the external title, site, score, tags, dates, and accepted-answer state. ProfoundSyntax does not copy full external question or answer bodies or comments for this feature. Removing a public site identity removes Q&A selections tied to that site. Use Refresh Network Identities for account/profile metrics, Refresh Public Q&A for contribution metadata, and Disconnect to remove the connection.
The existing optional manual Stack Overflow link in Enhanced Developer Profile remains separate and is not replaced by the verified Stack Exchange Apps connection.
Community Video Review and Publication Trust
Site administrators can require normal-member local videos to be reviewed before public display. When the optional video-publication trust threshold is enabled, each moderator-approved local video advances that member toward direct publication. After the configured number of approvals is reached, later local videos can display immediately while review mode remains enabled.
A rejected pending video resets that trust progress. If a moderator later removes one of the member’s approved local videos through the Community media moderation workflow, the member’s video-publication trust is also reset and new videos return to review until the threshold is earned again. Administrators and accounts with direct publishing capability continue to follow their existing bypass rules.
Posting on ProfoundSyntax
Visit Submit to create a new community Thread. Supported developer-focused Thread types may include Questions, Discussions, Code posts, Tutorials, Projects and Showcases, and Resources or News.
Select the Topic and programming language that best fit your post and review any Topic-specific rules before submitting.
Writing a Good Question
Use a specific title and explain what you expected, what actually happened, what you already tried, and the environment or language involved. Include the smallest useful code sample and exact error messages when possible.
Formatting Code
ProfoundSyntax supports safe fenced code blocks. Place three backticks before and after a block of code and optionally include a language identifier after the opening fence.
```php
function example() {
return 'Hello ProfoundSyntax';
}
```Open In External Sandbox
Supported HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, and related frontend code blocks may show an Open In menu when the feature and provider are enabled by site administration. Choosing a normal provider action sends only that selected code block to the chosen provider in a new tab. When one content item contains an unambiguous combination of at least two distinct HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript families, the menu may also offer Open combined example so those compatible blocks can be sent together. ProfoundSyntax does not guess when the same family appears more than once, and combined mode remains unavailable in that case.
Nothing is sent merely by viewing the ProfoundSyntax page. Every single-block or combined transfer requires an explicit provider click, ProfoundSyntax does not run arbitrary member code on its own servers, and the existing administrator transfer-size ceiling applies to the combined total. If Open In is not shown, the code language may not be supported by an enabled provider or the example may exceed the administrator-configured transfer-size limit. Copy Code remains available independently.
Replies and Answers
Community Threads support nested replies. Question authors may be able to mark a suitable top-level answer as accepted. An accepted answer means the Question author found the response useful; it is not a guarantee that the answer is universally correct.
Your own content may support front-end editing or removal. ProfoundSyntax may preserve a neutral placeholder when necessary to keep child replies and discussion context intact.
Voting and Reputation
Threads and replies may support upvotes and downvotes. Vote on the usefulness and quality of content rather than your opinion of the author. Community activity may contribute to overall or Topic-specific reputation and badges.
Badge Requirements
Achievement Badge requirements are configured by ProfoundSyntax administrators and may change as the community evolves. Account → Badges shows the current live requirement and your current progress for each enabled Badge; that member-facing progress screen is authoritative for the requirement currently in effect.
Your Content Insights
When you are signed in, your own Discussions and replies may show a private views indicator and an Insights link. Content Insights are visible only to you and can include views, first-24-hour view activity, upvotes, upvote ratio, replies, shares initiated through ProfoundSyntax, Recognition, and aggregate top-country reach when that information is available from the hosting layer. Other members do not receive access to your private Insights page. Use the back arrow on the Insights page to return to the feed, Discussion, profile, or reply context you came from.
The normal Share action opens ProfoundSyntax share options such as Copy link, Email, X, LinkedIn, Reddit, and the device/browser share sheet where supported. Opening the Share menu does not count as a share; the private Shares metric increases only after a supported ProfoundSyntax share action is completed or launched.
Finding Content
Feeds may include New, Hot, Top, Unanswered, Following, and Saved views. You can also browse Topics, search developer content, or explore public profiles through Members.
Projects and Connected Public Resources in Search
ProfoundSyntax search can include first-class Projects that the current viewer is allowed to see. Project discovery can match the Project title, summary/details, technologies, package information, and repository links while preserving the Project’s existing visibility boundary.
The External resources search scope uses only locally cached metadata that members have already chosen to publish through supported integrations. It can surface explicitly selected public GitHub profile repositories, explicitly selected Stack Exchange identities and Q&A links, and supported package metadata attached to a visible Project. Search does not contact GitHub, Stack Exchange, npm, PyPI, Packagist, or NuGet merely because someone enters a search query. Private profiles, unselected repositories/identities/Q&A contributions, private or Draft Project relationships, and disabled providers are excluded from this discovery surface.
Following, Saving, and Notifications
You may be able to follow Topics or discussions, save Threads or replies privately, and receive notifications for replies, @mentions, accepted-answer changes, followed discussions, followed Topics, moderation activity, account security, or supported integration activity.
Integration Bell Notifications
Connected providers under Account → Apps & Integrations can offer a per-integration routine Bell-notification preference. Turning routine activity off suppresses ordinary integration activity for that provider, but connection or repository-access problems that require your action still appear so a muted integration does not silently remain broken.
For the GitHub member integration, ProfoundSyntax can notify you when authorization is revoked, when the GitHub App installation used for repository access is suspended or removed, or when a repository that is actually used by your ProfoundSyntax profile showcase or one of your Projects loses eligible access. Repeated routine access-change activity can be coalesced to avoid Bell spam, and action-required notices are resolved when the relevant connection/access recovers.
For repositories already used by your ProfoundSyntax profile showcase or Projects, GitHub can also provide routine Bell notifications when an issue closes, a pull request merges, or a release is published. These lifecycle Bells follow your GitHub routine-notification preference and require read-only GitHub access to Issues, Pull requests, and Contents; ProfoundSyntax does not require GitHub write access for these notifications. If an existing GitHub installation has not yet approved newly requested read access, these lifecycle Bells simply remain unavailable until that approval is completed.
Stack Exchange can surface a connection-attention notice when an expired or invalid authorization is detected during a member refresh.
Blocking Another Member
The Block function may reduce ordinary discovery and direct interaction between accounts. Blocking does not erase existing discussion structure and does not prevent moderators or security systems from reviewing relevant activity.
Safety and Legal Reporting
Use ProfoundSyntax safety/reporting tools for genuine abuse or legal concerns. Do not download or redistribute illegal material merely to report it. If someone is in immediate physical danger in the United States, contact emergency services; outside the United States, contact the appropriate local emergency authority.
Child Sexual Exploitation / CSAM
If you encounter suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming, sextortion, child sex trafficking, or sexual enticement of a minor, do not save, forward, repost, or circulate the material. Report the content or account to ProfoundSyntax promptly. ProfoundSyntax may preserve evidence and report qualifying apparent child sexual exploitation to NCMEC CyberTipline or law enforcement where required or appropriate.
Non-Consensual Intimate Image Removal
An identifiable individual shown in an intimate image or video, or an authorized person acting for that individual, may request removal when the depiction was published without consent. Use the public Intimate Image Removal process. No ProfoundSyntax account is required. The written request asks for: (1) a physical or electronic signature; (2) information reasonably sufficient to locate the image or video on ProfoundSyntax, such as the URL or content location; (3) a brief good-faith statement that publication was non-consensual, with relevant context; and (4) contact information sufficient for ProfoundSyntax to respond. Do not upload or resend the intimate image or video merely to make the request.
When ProfoundSyntax validates a request covered by the applicable U.S. TAKE IT DOWN process, the workflow tracks the original 48-hour action deadline, removal of the identified depiction, and reasonable efforts concerning known identical copies. The requester receives a private reference/status token so progress can be checked without creating an account. Exact-copy automation is limited to byte-for-byte ProfoundSyntax-hosted image/video matches; it does not claim that visually similar, cropped, recompressed, or otherwise technically different files are automatically detected.
Sex Trafficking, Sexual Services, and Exploitation
Report content or accounts that recruit, advertise, solicit, arrange, promote, or facilitate sex trafficking, prostitution, commercial sexual exploitation, or sexual activity involving force, fraud, coercion, or minors.
Controlled Substances and Illegal Commerce
Report posts, Communities, messages, Projects, or Live activity being used to buy, sell, advertise, arrange, or facilitate illegal drugs, controlled substances, unlawfully dispensed prescription drugs, cannabis/marijuana/THC products, or other prohibited regulated goods. Technical or policy discussion is not automatically a violation; the prohibited behavior is illegal/prohibited commerce or facilitation.
Reporting Content or Members
Use the Report action when you believe a Thread, reply, Live broadcast, media item, or member violates the Rules. Do not use reports as retaliation for ordinary disagreement. Safety reports involving a child, non-consensual intimate imagery, trafficking, or other severe exploitation should be treated as urgent moderation matters and escalated to site staff.
Moderation
ProfoundSyntax may use Community Moderators and Topic Moderators. Depending on the situation, moderation actions may include warnings, content removal, Thread locking, duplicate-question handling, temporary restrictions, suspension, or permanent community bans.
Privacy and Your Data
Read the Privacy Policy for information about account data, identity verification, security records, social sign-in, notifications, moderation records, retention, and personal-data export or erasure.
Why Was My Post or Reply Removed?
Content may be removed for rule violations, spam, duplicate posting, excessive promotional links, abuse, moderation decisions, or other safety reasons. Moderator-removed discussion content may use placeholders to preserve replies that depend on the removed content.
Why Can’t I Vote, Reply, or Submit?
- You are not signed in.
- Your account is awaiting required profile or name review.
- The Thread is closed or locked.
- Your account is temporarily suspended or banned from participation.
- A rate limit was reached.
- The action is restricted for security or anti-abuse reasons.
- You are trying to vote on your own content.
- A block relationship prevents the interaction.
Why Doesn’t a Social Provider Appear?
Social providers can be independently enabled or disabled. A provider may also be temporarily unavailable or may fail to supply information required for secure account creation.
Account Recovery
If you lose access to your normal login method, use available password-reset, linked-provider, MFA-recovery, or verified-email recovery options. ProfoundSyntax will not disclose authentication secrets or bypass account-ownership checks simply because someone claims to own an account.
Automated Assistance
Some ProfoundSyntax features may use clearly identified automated or system-assisted processing for translation, quality review, safety, or eligible discussion assistance. Treat automated technical output as a starting point, not a guarantee; verify code and advice before using it in an important environment.
Community Rules
All members should review the Rules. When participating inside a specific Topic, also review any rules displayed for that Topic.
Copyright and DMCA
If you own copyrighted material and believe content on ProfoundSyntax infringes your rights, or if your content was removed after a copyright notice and you believe the removal was a mistake or misidentification, review the Copyright / DMCA procedure.
Business Inquiries
Signed-in members can use Account → Business Inquiry for private consultation, project, partnership, or other business contact. Business Inquiries are separate from bug reports and feature suggestions. If HubSpot CRM follow-up is enabled, the form can offer an optional consent checkbox that sends only your account email, first name, and last name to ProfoundSyntax’s CRM for follow-up; the inquiry subject and message remain in ProfoundSyntax.
After an inquiry is submitted, the member and authorized administrators can continue the private follow-up inside the same Business Inquiry history. ProfoundSyntax can email a notification when a new follow-up is added, while the stored inquiry history remains the authoritative conversation record. Closing an inquiry stops new member follow-ups unless an administrator reopens it.
Still Need Help?
Use the Help & Contact routing center below to choose the correct ProfoundSyntax workflow. Bugs and feature suggestions, Business Inquiries, Press requests, copyright/DMCA matters, privacy information, and intimate-image removal each stay in their dedicated processes. General account, site-usage, accessibility, membership/billing, and other support questions can use the private General Support form.
Signed-in members can review General Support requests and private replies under Account → My Support. Logged-out requesters receive a private support-access link by email so they can view and continue the same request without creating an account. Keep that private link confidential because it grants access to the request conversation.
Help & Contact
Use the specialized ProfoundSyntax workflow when one exists. This keeps requests private, routes them to the right review process, and avoids mixing unrelated issues together.
Report a bug
Something on ProfoundSyntax is broken or behaving incorrectly.
Report a bugSuggest a feature
Share an idea for improving ProfoundSyntax.
Suggest a featureBusiness inquiry
Consultation, project, partnership, or other business contact.
Open Business InquiryPress & media
Newsroom resources, official releases, media contact, and publication materials.
Open Press & MediaPrivacy
Understand how ProfoundSyntax handles personal data and privacy requests.
Review Privacy PolicyCopyright / DMCA
Copyright notices, counter-notices, and the designated-agent process.
Open Copyright / DMCAIntimate image removal
Use the dedicated private TAKE IT DOWN workflow for non-consensual intimate imagery.
Open Removal ProcessStill need help?
Use this form for account access, site usage, accessibility help, membership/billing questions, or another general support issue that does not belong in one of the specialized channels above.