Text keywords

JOIN also YES

Follows the channel this number carries. Crossline replies with a confirmation, then asks what name to show on your messages; reply with a name, or SKIP to be shown as Texter and a short code until you set one. The code is not part of your number. You can only join from your own phone: nobody can add you.

Limits. Some channels take followers by approval: JOIN files a request, you get one text saying so, and the welcome comes if an admin approves. A channel can be full, and then JOIN says so and tells the admin. If you are already following, JOIN just confirms it again. If this number used to carry a different group that you followed, JOIN does not sign you up for the new one: the reply names the channel the number texts now, and following it takes that channel's join link.

LEAVE

Stops texts from this channel. Your name is kept, and JOIN brings you back under it; text NAME and a new one to change it. LEAVE is the polite way out; use STOP when you want nothing further from the number at all.

STOP also STOPALL, UNSUBSCRIBE, CANCEL, END, QUIT, and in Spanish ALTO, PARA, PARAR, DETENER, CANCELAR, BAJA

Opts you out of every text from Crossline, on every number and every group you follow. You get one confirmation and nothing else, not even replies to other keywords, until you text START yourself. STOP is handled before anything else Crossline does and works even while the service is paused or having trouble.

START also UNSTOP

Clears a STOP and follows the channel again. Only your own phone can do this; an admin cannot resubscribe you. If you already follow and are not opted out, START changes nothing and is answered at most once every ten minutes. On a number that used to text for a different group, START clears your opt-out but does not join you; use the new group's join link.

HELP also INFO

Texts back the keywords and a link to this page. It is answered every time, whatever else is going on, because carriers require it. For anything this page does not cover, email support@crossline.stream.

NAME Maria

Sets the name that appears on your messages, in the channel and on other phones, as [Maria]:. Text NAME followed by the name. The same rules apply to the name you give after JOIN.

Rules. A name that breaks one is refused with the reason, and your next text is read as another try.

• Up to 20 characters. An emoji or an accented letter counts as one.
• Brackets, colons, @, #, backticks, angle brackets, and invisible characters are not allowed. Hyphens and apostrophes are fine.
• At least two letters or numbers. Not a phone number, not a link.
• Not a keyword, not Texter, not Crossline, and not a staff word such as admin, moderator, bot, or support.
• Not the name of a moderator on the server, and not a name another phone in the same channel already uses. Names are compared ignoring case and spacing, so maria and M A R I A are the same.

PAUSE PAUSE 3, up to PAUSE 30

Holds texts from the channel for a day, or for the number of days you give, from 1 to 30. You are still following: you can text to post, keywords still answer, and the texts resume on their own when the time is up. Messages posted during the last day of a pause arrive together when it ends; anything older is dropped rather than sent late.

RESUME

Ends a pause early. If you are not paused it just confirms that texts are on.

QUIET 10PM 7AM QUIET OFF

You have quiet hours from the start. Every phone that joins gets 10 PM to 7 AM on its own clock, without asking for it. Anything posted in that window waits and arrives after it ends, gathered into as few texts as possible. QUIET with two times changes the window, and QUIET OFF clears it so texts arrive around the clock. STATUS shows the hours you have now and the time zone they run in.

How to write the times. Two times, start then end, separated by a space. 10PM 7AM, 10:30PM 6:45AM, and 24-hour 22 7 or 22:30 06:45 all work. A window may cross midnight. Write each time without a space inside: 10PM, not 10 PM. A QUIET the bridge cannot read posts as a message.

Which clock. Your quiet hours run in the time zone your area code belongs to, so a phone from New York is quiet on New York time whichever state the channel is in. If your number is not from where you live, add the zone after the times: QUIET 10PM 7AM PT. Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Atlantic, and Newfoundland work as ET, CT, MT, PT, AZ, AKT, HT, AT, and NT, or spelled out, and so does a full zone name like America/Denver. The zone stays until you name another.

STATUS

Texts back your name in the channel with your code beside it, whether you are paused, and your quiet hours. The code is how the channel's admins tell members apart, so you can tell them which one is you; it is never any part of your number. While texting is paused for billing or a Crossline review, STATUS says so instead. While an admin has turned texting off, STATUS gets no reply.

MORE, WEEKLY, DAILY, ALL

A channel sends phones either a digest (one text a day, at a time its server picks), a weekly text, or messages as they arrive. MORE sends the next part of the last digest; text it again if that one ends with more. A weekly text has no MORE: its link has every message. WEEKLY or DAILY steps you down to one text a week or one a day, and ALL puts you back on everything the channel sends.

EVENTS, REMIND, SKIP, YES, NO

When a channel has events, YES or NO answers the latest announcement within a day of it (GOING, COUNT ME IN, CAN'T, and NOT GOING work too). Nothing is texted back unless the channel turned confirmations on. REMIND ON gets a reminder before every event, REMIND alone just the next one, and REMIND OFF none. In a live channel reminders are on until you text REMIND OFF; in a digest or weekly channel they are off until you text REMIND or REMIND ON. EVENTS narrows the channel to event texts and nothing else; ALL undoes it. Within a day of a reminder for a repeating event, SKIP stops that series' reminders for you.

LINK, UNLINK

LINK texts you a short code. Run /link with it in Discord, within the time it says, and your number is tied to your Discord account, so your texts and your posts there are one person. UNLINK undoes it.