How Margin works

About this demonstration

Margin is an interactive portfolio concept using fictional accounts. Explore without registering. Changes stay in this browser tab and reset when you exit the demo or refresh.

Authentication, invitations, hosted storage and external integrations are not connected to the public demonstration.

Join by invitation

Open the link someone sent you, verify your email and set up your profile. Already a member? Sign in with your existing account.

You can keep three personal invitations open at once. They expire after 30 days; an accepted, expired or withdrawn invitation frees a place.

Choose your friends

Find someone by name or username and send a request. Friendship starts when they accept. Your introduction can be found by other signed-in members; your personal posts, Gallery, On Repeat and visible Top 4 are for accepted friends.

Your feed shows friends’ posts and posts from Spaces you include, newest first. Your own personal posts are on your profile. Like counts stay inside post conversations.

Share a post

Write a thought, add still photographs or share a link. Pasting a web link into your words counts as a link post too.

• Up to three regular posts per calendar day, or one post with a link if it’s your only post that day. Up to three photographs a day in total, shared between posts and Gallery.
• Published posts and uploaded photographs still count toward the day’s allowance after deletion. Editing uses the original posting day. Add a link only when there are no other publications that day; removing a link returns that post to the regular-post allowance.
• Comments and private messages do not count toward this limit.
• Your posting day runs from midnight to midnight in your account’s saved time zone. Changing time zones does not give you a fresh allowance; recent usage carries forward for at least 24 hours.

Messages and conversations

Open Conversation beneath a post to read comments or reply. Comments share the post’s audience.

Messages are for direct conversations when your relationship and both members’ settings allow them. Notebook is for notes to yourself. Messages expire after 30 days; notes after 90. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted.

Posts move on

Posts and their conversations expire 30 days after publication. Editing doesn’t restart the clock. Photographs you keep in Gallery can stay longer.

Keep a Gallery

Keep up to 20 photographs, with three featured on your profile. Use Arrange to move or feature them. Done saves; Cancel discards the arrangement. Move controls and keyboard actions work alongside dragging.

Deleting a post keeps its Gallery photographs unless you choose to delete them too. Deleting a photograph removes its placements, while keeping surrounding post text and conversations.

Photographs and music

Margin supports still JPEG, PNG and WebP photographs, not video or animation. On Repeat lets you share a song; its listening link opens an external service. Margin doesn’t play music audio.

Gather in a Space

Create an invitation-only Space for a group, with optional plans and RSVPs. Administrators can invite accepted friends. Space members may not be your friends, and joining doesn’t unlock personal profiles or Galleries.

Choose whether a Space’s posts appear in your feed. Public Event Spaces are currently unavailable.

For adults

Your minimum signup age is 18. The planned launch is for people accessing Margin from the United States. Don’t create an account for a child or bypass account restrictions.