Connect the apps and invite friends

Everyone in your group uses the same Frame apps and types your server's address when they sign up. Friends on the same server can see each other's photos; friends on different servers can't, so pick one server per group.

Connect the app

1. Open Frame. When it asks Where's your Frame?, type your address, such as frame.example.com, without https:// and without a trailing slash. The app adds the rest.
2. Sign in with the account you made with the setup link, or create one with an invite.
3. Invite friends from the app, or from Invites in the admin panel.

If the app can't connect, open https://frame.example.com/api/v1/server in your phone's browser: you should see JSON with your server's name. If you don't, see Troubleshooting. The apps only accept plain http:// for local network addresses, so anything on the internet needs HTTPS.

Who can join

New servers are invite-only. Change this in the admin panel under Settings, or pin it with FRAME_REGISTRATION in frame.conf (a setting in the file is locked in the panel).

Signing in to an existing account never needs an invite.

Server invites

In the admin panel, Invites → New invite makes a link that lets someone create an account, by default once and within 7 days. Add a note ("for Mum") to remember who it's for, copy the link or show the QR code, and see who joined with it. A server invite doesn't make anyone a friend; they add friends in the app. From the command line:

sudo frame-admin invite server --uses 1 --days 7 --note "for Mum"

--days 0 makes an invite that never expires.

Members' invite links

In the app, open Friends → Invite and share the link, which looks like https://frame.crow.sg/i#s=…&c=…. When your friend opens it:

• If they have Frame, the link opens it with your server filled in, and after sign-up you're already friends.
• If not, the page shows the store buttons and a "copy server address" button.
• Your server address and the code travel in the part after #, which browsers never send to frame.crow.sg.

These links are valid for 30 days and can be used several times. Anyone holding one can become your friend, so share it privately. Turn off Members can invite if only you should decide who joins; members' links then still work for adding friends who are already on the server. An admin can make a member's link on the server with sudo frame-admin invite create <username>.

Revoking invites

• Shared a link with the wrong person? In the app, use Settings → Reset invite link. This revokes all your open invites at once and gives you a new link. Revoked or expired links stop working immediately.
• In the admin panel, Invites lists every server invite and every member's open link, each with a Revoke button.
• Someone you previously unfriended or blocked can't use an old or forwarded invite to get back in: for them the link only creates a normal friend request that you must accept. A blocked person gets nothing.
• Friendships already made through an invite aren't undone by revoking it. Unfriend or block the person instead.

Friends on the same server can also find each other by username search, or by contacts if they allow it. There's no friend limit unless you set FRAME_MAX_FRIENDS.