Profile and settings

Your profile is how other people see you across Rally. Your settings control how Rally looks and works for you.

Open your settings

Select the gear icon next to your name at the bottom of the sidebar. You can also select your name and choose Settings.

Settings has these sections:

• My profile: your display name, username, about me, avatar and accent color.
• Account: your email address and signing out.
• Appearance: light or dark theme.
• Connect an AI: let an AI app help you build games in Rally Studio. See Connect an AI app.
• Sign out

When you change something, a bar appears at the bottom: “Careful — you have unsaved changes!” Select Save changes to keep your edits or Reset to undo them. To close Settings, select the X in the top-right corner or press Esc.

Edit your profile

1. Open Settings and choose My profile.

2. Change any of the fields below. The Preview card shows what your profile will look like.

3. Select Save changes.

Field	What it is	Rules
Display name	The name shown next to your messages.	1 to 32 characters.
Username	Your unique handle, shown as @username. People use it to add you as a friend, and it’s part of your profile link.	2 to 32 characters: lowercase letters, numbers, underscores and periods, with no two periods in a row. It can’t already be taken.
About me	A short bio shown on your profile.	Up to 190 characters.
Avatar	Your profile picture.	Select Upload avatar and pick a PNG, JPEG, GIF or WebP (up to 8 MB). A square image looks best. Select Remove to go back to the default avatar with your initials.
Pronouns	Shown next to your username.	Optional, up to 24 characters.
Status	An emoji and a short line shown under your name.	Up to 80 characters. Select Clear to remove it.
Banner	A wide image across the top of your profile.	Select Upload banner (up to 10 MB). Without one, your accent colour is used. Web only for now.
Links	Up to 5 links shown as buttons on your profile.	Each needs a label (up to 24 characters) and a full http:// or https:// address. Web only for now.
Accent colour	The color of the banner on your public profile page.	Pick a preset, choose your own with the color picker, or select Default to clear it.

Adult and graphic images are not allowed anywhere on Rally. Uploaded images are checked automatically, and one that breaks the rules is rejected or removed. See Moderation and safety.

If a username is already in use, you’ll see “That username is taken”. Names and your bio can’t include slurs; Rally rejects them with “That includes language that isn’t allowed on Rally.” For more on this, see Moderation and safety.

Changing your username changes your link

Your public profile lives at rally.place/u/ followed by your username. If you change your username, the old link stops working.

Your public profile

Anyone with the link can see your public profile page, even without a Rally account. It shows:

• your avatar, display name, username and about me
• a banner (your image, or your accent color), plus your pronouns, status and links
• the month you joined Rally
• how many communities you’re in
• the public games you’ve published, most played first

Rally asks search engines not to list profile pages. Your email address is never shown.

When other people visit your profile, they see Message and Add friend buttons. When you visit your own, you see Edit profile, which opens your settings.

To open someone’s public profile, select their name or avatar in a community and choose View full profile.

Nicknames

A nickname changes how you appear in one community without changing your display name anywhere else. It can be up to 32 characters.

• Someone with the Manage nicknames permission can set a member’s nickname. They select the member’s name, choose Moderation, then Change nickname….
• If you can open Community settings and then Members, you can also set your own nickname there: select the ⋯ button next to your name and choose Change nickname….

To go back to your display name, open the same dialog and select Reset nickname. For more on who can do what, see Roles and permissions.

Set your status

Your status appears as a colored dot on your avatar.

1. Select your name at the bottom of the sidebar.

2. Under Status, choose one:

   • Online
   • Idle
   • Do not disturb
   • Invisible: you appear offline to everyone, but you can keep using Rally as usual.

Note

Do not disturb is only a status that other people can see. It doesn’t turn off your desktop notifications.

Notifications

On the web, Rally notifies you through your browser. You get a desktop notification when someone mentions you or sends you a direct message while you aren’t looking at the Rally tab.

To turn them on, select your name and choose Enable desktop notifications, then allow them when your browser asks. To turn them off, or back on after blocking them, change the notification permission for rally.place in your browser’s site settings.

Choose a theme

1. Open Settings and choose Appearance.

2. Pick a theme:

   • Light
   • Dark
   • System: follows your device’s light or dark setting. This is the default.

Your theme is saved on the device you’re using, so you can use a different theme on each one.

Your account

The Account section shows the email address you sign in with. Rally sends your one-time sign-in codes there, and it’s never shown to other people. It also shows your username, with a shortcut to Edit profile.

Sign out

Choose Sign out in Settings, or select your name at the bottom of the sidebar and choose Sign out. This signs you out of Rally in this browser only. To sign in again, you’ll need a new code from your email.