Account Security and Settings

Manage account preferences, security, social privacy, notifications, and supporter status — all from the Account Settings page (top navigation).

Editor preferences

Myth-Weavers ships three editor modes, switchable per-post:

Rich Text (default, recommended) — A WYSIWYG editor with toolbar buttons for formatting, images, tables, and the PBP-specific blocks (OOC, spoilers, whispers, fieldsets). Best for most writing.
Markdown — Standard Markdown syntax with a live preview pane. Comfortable if you've been writing for GitHub, Reddit, or Discord for years.
HTML — Raw HTML in a textarea, for when you want full control over the markup. Sanitized on submit.

Legacy BBCode posts (carried over from the old site) still render correctly, and you can still write in BBCode if that's your home — it's just not one of the three default mode toggles. See The Post Editor for the BBCode reference.

In Account Settings > Editor each mode has three settings:

Default — the mode every new post, reply, and edit opens in. Exactly one mode is the default.
Available — kept in the editor's mode switcher so you can switch to it per-post, but it isn't your default.
Hidden — removed from the mode switcher entirely. Set the modes you never use (say, Markdown and BBCode) to Hidden to declutter the toolbar.

You can't hide your default mode, and hiding a mode never affects existing posts — editing a post always offers whatever mode it was written in, so you can still open and tweak an old BBCode or Markdown post even if that mode is hidden.

Quick Reply

Also in Account Settings > Editor: "Open the Quick Reply box automatically when a topic loads." On by default — the Quick Reply box at the bottom of a topic is open and ready. Turn it off if you'd rather it start collapsed (it then expands when you click its header, or when you quote a post), which keeps long topics from pushing the reply box down the page. Either way, expanding a collapsed box drops your cursor straight into the editor.

Mode-switch warning

Switching a post between modes can change some formatting — most notably, going from HTML to Rich Text drops markup the visual editor can't represent. By default, switching pops a confirmation that lists what may be affected. If you switch modes constantly and don't need the reminder, tick "Don't show this again" in that confirmation, or toggle "Don't warn me before switching editor modes" in Account Settings > Editor. Switches then happen immediately. Re-enable the warning any time from the same setting.

Content preferences

Show Deleted Content

Toggle Show Deleted Content to control whether deleted posts are visible to you:

Your own deleted posts always show up to you regardless.
Community moderators see all deleted posts in the forums they moderate.
Deleted posts appear collapsed by default with a button to reveal their content.

[GM]

GMs always see deleted content in their games regardless of this setting — needed for moderation and to prevent rules-lawyering with the "wait, that didn't happen" maneuver.

Profile

The Profile section covers your avatar and About Me. See Creating Your Account for the walk-through.

Security

The Security section has three tabs.

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

TOTP-based (Time-based One-Time Passwords) — compatible with Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password, or any standards-compliant authenticator app.

To enable:

Account Settings → Security → Two-Factor Auth.
Scan the QR code with your authenticator.
Enter the verification code to confirm.
Save your backup codes somewhere safe (password manager, encrypted note, paper in a drawer — anywhere that isn't the phone the authenticator is on).

Once enabled, every login asks for the TOTP after the password.

Under the hood: what TOTP is

TOTP generates a six-digit code every 30 seconds based on a shared secret (the QR code) and the current time. The server independently computes the same value and accepts the match. No network round-trip from the authenticator — works offline. Your backup codes are one-shot fallbacks for when the authenticator device is lost or wiped.

Password Change

Current password, then new password twice. Standard.

Recovery Questions

A backup identity-verification mechanism if you lose access to your email and 2FA device. Pick from a set of stock questions and provide answers. Useful for the otherwise unrecoverable corner case.

Username Rename

Username changes are possible via request. Open the rename form, propose a new username, and the request enters a moderation queue. Approvals are not casual — name-squatting and impersonation are real concerns — but legitimate requests (changing real-name handles, getting away from an old persona) generally go through.

Approved renames update your username everywhere; your old name is retired and reserved against future re-use.

Social settings

The Social section has three tabs:

Friends — Your friends list.
Requests — Pending friend requests; accept or decline here.
Privacy — Who can send you friend requests; whether your online status is visible.

The full friends + DMs + presence story lives in Community, Messages, and Social.

Notification settings

Notification Settings (sidebar or direct nav) is where you decide what gets pinged where:

Per-type preferences (in-app, push, email, for each notification type)
Per-game overrides (mute the casual game, keep your main campaign loud)
Per-forum and per-topic settings (finer grain still)
Push notification device management
Email digest cadence (immediate, daily, weekly, off)
Quiet hours

The full menu lives in Calendar, Events, and Notifications — this section is just where you turn the knobs.

Theme

Myth-Weavers ships several themes. The theme switcher in the navigation lets you pick one; your choice is saved in your browser and applies on every visit.

Available themes

Myth-Weavers — the default. Parchment background, leather chrome, the visual identity the site is known for.
Midnight — a dark-mode theme based on Bootstrap dark, designed for late-night reading.

More themes ship periodically; the dropdown in the navbar shows everything currently available.

Switching

Click your current theme name in the navbar to open the picker. Pick another and the page reloads with the new theme applied. The choice persists in your browser's localStorage — clearing browser data resets to the default.

URL parameter

For one-off previews (sharing a custom theme with someone, testing how content looks under a different theme), the ?theme=<name> URL parameter applies a theme on load and clears the parameter from the address bar. Useful for "try this look" links without committing the visitor to the change.

Custom themes

Account Settings → Advanced has a custom-theme JSON editor (supporter-tier feature). Paste a theme definition, save, and it's available in your theme picker. Themes are validated on save; the Theme Guide game on the site covers the schema and how to contribute a theme back to the community.

Calendar feeds

Calendar Feeds (sidebar) generates an ICS feed URL you can subscribe to from Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, or any other ICS-aware app. Token-secured per-user; safe to plug into your phone's calendar.

RSS feed

Your RSS feed is a separate token-secured per-user URL that delivers updates from across the site to any RSS reader (Feedly, NetNewsWire, Inoreader, etc.). The feed mirrors your notification logic — items appear that you'd otherwise get a notification for (replies, mentions, new posts in topics you follow), in reverse-chronological order.

Generating the feed URL

Account Settings → RSS Feed has a Generate Token button. Click it and a feed URL is generated and displayed. Copy it into your RSS reader.

The feed delivers the last 50 items, sorted newest-first. Your reader polls the URL on its own schedule; new items appear as they're added.

Settings

Include game advertisements — toggle to include recruitment ads in your feed. Off by default; useful if you're actively shopping for games and want them surfaced through your reader.

Token security

The feed URL contains a per-user token that grants read access to content you have access to. Treat it like a password:

Don't share the URL — anyone with it can read your private notifications.
Regenerate Token revokes the current token and issues a new one. Any reader subscribed to the old URL stops working; resubscribe with the new one.
Remove Token disables the feed entirely.

Supporting Myth-Weavers

Myth-Weavers is free to use. Donations keep the lights on and fund new development. Support Us (linked from Account Settings or the navigation) is the donation page.

How donations work

Flexible amounts — Any contribution $1 or more, via PayPal.
30 days per dollar — Each $1 adds 30 days of active supporter status.
Rolling tiers — Your supporter tier reflects contributions over the last 12 months.

Supporter tiers and benefits

Tiers are rolling-12-month thresholds. Higher tiers unlock more:

Profile badge — A supporter badge next to your username in posts and on your profile.
Higher upload limits — More headroom for images and attachments.
Interactive maps — Create and use map canvases in your games. See Characters, Resources, and Maps.
Integrations — Discord and Bluesky webhooks for your games. See Game Master's Guide.
Custom themes — Profile appearance customization at higher tiers.
Priority support — Faster turnaround on questions at the top tier.

Visibility settings

Active supporters can decide whether the badge and tier are visible:

Show badge next to username — Toggle the supporter badge in posts and user lists.
Show status on profile — Toggle tier and contribution history on your public profile.