Editing, Unsending, and Reacting to Messages

Where the Tools Are

On the website, hover over a message with a mouse or trackpad for two buttons: a ⋯ menu and an emoji face. In the Kabora app, press and hold the message; the tools, time windows and emoji are the same.

The menu holds:

• For every message: Reply, Copy, Star message, Pin to the top and Keep as a saved message.
• For your own recent messages: Edit and Unsend.
• For your host's messages: Report this message.

The Two Time Windows

Edit lasts 15 minutes from sending, and Unsend 24 hours. Kabora checks both again when you press them, so a page left open overnight cannot extend either.

After 15 minutes, the menu states "Editing expired 15 minutes after." where Edit was; after 24 hours, it states that unsending has expired too.

What Each Action Leaves Behind

• Editing: Always disclosed. The message displays Edited from then on, and your host sees the new words with that label.
• Unsending: Blanks the message permanently: the words, any photo, and every reaction on it. In its place, you both see a line stating that a message was unsent, so the thread has no unexplained gap. It cannot be undone, which is why the button requires two presses.

Only messages you typed yourself can be changed, not your host's. Nobody can edit or unsend an automated message, but you can still react to one.

Reacting

There are eight emoji: ❤️ 👍 🔥 😂 😮 😢 🙏 🎉.

Each person has one reaction per message. Picking a different emoji replaces yours, and picking the same one again removes it. You can react to your host's messages as well as your own.

Hover over a reaction to see who left it. A number beside it means more than one person picked that emoji.

Replying to One Message

Reply pins that message above the box, with its writer and its first couple of lines. It sends a compact quote along with your answer. Clicking the quote moves the thread to the original and highlights it.

If the original is later unsent, the quote changes to Message unsent instead of repeating the original words.

A message can contain up to 4,000 characters.