The text side of Outpost covers the things you'd expect from any modern chat app: editing, deleting, reacting, pinning, and finding old messages again.
You can edit or delete your own messages after sending — edited messages are marked as edited so the conversation stays honest about what changed. Server moderators with the right role permissions can also remove messages that violate the community's rules, independent of who wrote them.
React to any message with an emoji, including a built-in emoji picker and custom GIF support for reactions that need more range than a single glyph. Multiple people can stack reactions on the same message, same as you'd expect.
Pin important messages to a channel so they stay easy to find without scrolling through history. For anything not pinned, full message search covers the channel/server history directly — no need to scroll manually to find something from last week.
You can see who's currently online in a server via the member list, and typing indicators show when someone's composing a message in the channel you're viewing — the small real-time signals that make a chat app feel alive rather than like a message board.
Upload files directly into a channel (backed by the server's MinIO storage). One thing worth knowing: on a self-hosted instance, uploaded files sit in a public-read bucket by default — anyone with the direct URL can view them. Fine for casual attachments; don't rely on it for anything sensitive.
