Explore and following

Explore is where you find channels. The search box at the top takes you to the search page. Below it come three groups.

• All channels — ordered by follower count. Open the full list to keep scrolling
• Categories — the categories of ci.me streams that are live right now. Tapping one opens the live list filtered to it
• Rising channels — ci.me channels whose follower count grew quickly over the past week. Their cards carry a NEW badge

Rising channels favour channels that are growing fast rather than channels that are already large: the order comes from the rate of growth, not from the raw number of new followers.

Some channels exist on ci.me but have not created a cigt channel yet. Their cards show an outbound arrow next to the name, and tapping one opens that channel on ci.me in a new tab instead of a cigt channel home. Following applies to cigt channels, so those cards have no follow button.

Use the follow button on a channel card or channel home to follow a channel, and what it posts gathers on the following page. That page is personal to you, so it requires signing in.

The row across the top shows the channels you follow that are streaming right now, ordered by viewer count. It stays in place whichever tab you are on.

Both tabs are ordered by the time each item went up, and scrolling down loads the next batch. If you follow no channels at all, the tabs are replaced by a prompt to go and explore.

The ci.me content page shows the lives, clips, videos, and posts collected from ci.me. The first screen is a preview of all four lists, and the tabs at the top open each list in full.

Choosing Rising — or Hot lives today on the live list — adds a period row: today, this week, or this month. The live, clip, and video lists have one more row for All and Following, so you can narrow the list to the channels you follow while keeping the sort and category you picked.

Narrowing to Following requires signing in. Content that needs an age check does not appear in these lists or in search.

Tapping an item does not send you straight out to ci.me — it opens inside cigt first. The thumbnail, the channel, the viewer count, and the likes and comments the original has on ci.me are all shown here.

• Watch on ci.me — Go to live while a stream is on — opens the original in a new tab, and the line below counts how many times people have gone across
• Likes and saves are kept on the cigt side — they are counted separately from the numbers on the original
• You cannot write a new comment here. The original lives on ci.me, so comments go there

If the same content also went up as a post on a channel board, you are taken to that post instead. It is folded into one place so the same thing does not appear in two shapes.

The notices page lists operator notices and channel notices together. Operator notices come first, each group newest first, and above the title sits either an official-notice badge or the name of the channel that posted it.

• Tapping a channel notice takes you to that post on the channel
• Tapping an operator notice opens the notice page with the full text
• Operator notices accept reactions and comments, and a translate button appears when the text is not in your language

A reaction you leave without signing in cannot be taken back. If you may want to undo it, sign in first.

Comments can only be written while signed in, and an individual notice may have comments closed.