Ten minutes for an operator

You have run sudo bash deploy/bootstrap.sh and the page is up. Ten minutes, in order:

Claim admin. The one-time token is in the server log and in DATA_DIR/admin-token.txt; paste it under Settings → Become admin.
Name the place. Admin panel → Customization: the name, a logo, the colours; SEO for what a link preview shows.
Decide who may join. Configuration → Registration: open, invite only, or closed; guests on or off under Features.
Say what is on. Features: calls, files, stickers, bots, the language filters, the profile fields. Every switch says what off means.
Set the floors. Configuration → Limits: connections, file size, the per-account quota, retention windows.
Turn on the record. Sign-ins and the audit are on by default; set the security.txt contact under Pages so people know where to report a hole.
Back it up. Backups: a policy, and one taken now.
Read the dashboard once. So you know what normal looks like: Reading the dashboard.
Learn three commands. yeetline-status, yeetline-logs, yeetline-ctl activity — The yeetline commands.
Tell people. /docs/welcome/getting-started is the page to send.

See Running this server for everything else.

Last changed 2026-09-11