# Sharing a conversation

> Publish a conversation by link, control what it shows, and take it down.

Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/sharing-a-conversation
Language: en

The **Share** button in the chat header opens **Share Conversation**, which offers two things: an image of the conversation, and a link to a readable page of it.

## Share as Image \[#share-as-image]

A rendered card of the conversation you can download, copy, or hand to your phone's share sheet. Under **Messages shown** you choose **All** or the last few — long conversations are hard to read as an image, so the dialog offers the shorter range. A scene image from the chat can be shared the same way as a **Scene card**.

## Share as Link \[#share-as-link]

Creating a link takes a **snapshot** of the whole conversation as it stands and publishes it at its own URL. Signing in is required.

| Visibility                     | Where it appears                                                           |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Public Share** (the default) | The character's **Memories** tab, and the community gallery at `/memories` |
| **Only visible via link**      | Nowhere — only people you send the URL to                                  |

You can flip between them at any time with **Make public** and **Make link-only**.

> **The community gallery is called "Memories".** That is shared
> conversations other people published — it has nothing to do with the
> [memory](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/memory) a character keeps about you, which is
> private and never published. A separate page, `/app/share`, is also not
> conversation sharing: it is the receiver for content shared *into* Reverie
> from another app's share sheet.

## A snapshot is frozen \[#a-snapshot-is-frozen]

The published page is a copy taken when you created the link. Messages you send afterwards do not appear in it. Back in the share dialog, a link that has fallen behind is marked **Not current** with a count of new messages, and **Update this link** rebuilds it in place — same URL, same likes, so anything you have already sent out keeps working.

Every link you have made for a conversation is listed under **Your share links**, each with **Open**, **Poster**, a visibility switch, **Update this link** and **Delete**. If a current link already exists, Reverie hands you that one back instead of minting a second.

## What a reader sees \[#what-a-reader-sees]

The transcript, the character, and who shared it — your display name, or **Anonymous user** if you have not claimed a username. A very long conversation shows only its most recent part, with controls to reveal more. Slash-command details are stripped from the public view, and an AI-content disclaimer sits at the bottom.

Anyone reading it can **Import chat and continue**, which copies the conversation into their own chats and lets them carry on from where yours stopped. Their continuation is theirs — it does not touch your conversation.

Images keep working after the fact: a shared snapshot points at the same files, and those files are preserved even if you later delete the source conversation.

## What goes out with it \[#what-goes-out-with-it]

> **Your persona goes with the link.** If the conversation uses a
> [persona](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/personas), the dialog names it and says so: the
> persona *"is shared with it, and copied into the personas of anyone who
> imports the chat."* Its name and description are published; the
> relationship field is not. There is no opt-out — every line in the
> conversation was written with that persona in place.

Link sharing requires a signed-in account in good standing — an account carrying credit debt cannot publish.

## Taking it down \[#taking-it-down]

Delete a link from **Your share links**, or from the **My Shares** tab of the Memories page, which lists your published conversations alongside the snapshots you put on a character's wall and where you can also rename a published conversation, copy its URL and change its visibility.

> Deleting a shared conversation is permanent — the page, its likes and the
> published copy of the messages all go. Your own conversation is not affected.

## Reporting a memory \[#reporting-a-memory]

Anyone signed in can report a memory that is not their own, from the flag at the top of its page. What happens next is described in [Safety and reporting](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/safety-and-reporting).

## Related \[#related]

* [How memory works](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/memory) — the other thing called "memory", and why it is never shared
* [Personas](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/personas) — what a persona is, and what publishing copies out of it
* [Managing conversations](https://reverie.im/en/docs/chatting/managing-conversations) — exporting a conversation instead of publishing it
* [Snapshots](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/snapshots) — publishing a single scene image
* [Safety and reporting](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/safety-and-reporting) — reporting a shared conversation