Featured Content and the Library

Part of our guide to running an online community you actually own.

Chat moves fast. Even the best-organized rooms bury useful things under new messages within a day. Flotilla gives organizers two tools for that: Featured Content, which surfaces a handful of important items on your space’s About page, and the Library, a searchable collection of pinned links and events that sticks around indefinitely.

Featured Content

Every space has an About page — the same place members land when they open the space’s information panel to read its name, description, and icon. Featured Content lets admins highlight specific items there, such as key messages, threads, or events. A new member sees your welcome message or community guidelines the moment they open the space, instead of scrolling back through weeks of chat to find them.

Editing Featured Content needs the same access as the rest of the space editing covered in Managing a Space. Your relay must support Nostr’s relay management API, and you need admin permission on the space; without both, the option to feature content won’t appear. You edit featured items from the same flow you’d use to update your space’s name, description, or icon.

Featured Content works best as a small, deliberate set of items. To highlight more than a few things, or to build a browsable set of resources, use the Library.

The Library

The Library (you may also see it called “shelves” or a pinboard) is a per-space collection of pinned links and events, shown as a searchable, masonry-style gallery rather than a chronological feed. It holds anything worth searching back through later: reference links, external resources, recurring events, and guides that members shouldn’t have to scroll through chat or dig through threads to find again.

Who can add or pin items to a space’s Library depends on how that space and its relay are configured. Check your own space’s permissions if you’re unsure whether you have access to add to it.

Using both together

Neither feature requires special setup beyond the space itself. In a new community, feature your welcome message or community guidelines so every new member sees them first, then use the Library to collect the reference material — rules documents, external links, recurring event details — that members will want to return to. Both are optional, and a space works fine without either.

If you’re still setting up your space’s basic details, roles, or permissions, start with Managing a Space.