Using An Account

Subscribing to Hypermass works straight away, within a modest allowance that resets each day. An account gives you more: a larger allowance of your own, and the ability to publish your own streams. A free account is enough to start.

Allowances

	Allowance	Resets
Without an account	A modest allowance, counted per connection address	Daily, at midnight UTC
Free account	A larger allowance of your own, wherever you connect from	Monthly
Paid plans	Larger again - see the plans once signed in at hypermass.io/upgrade-plan	Monthly

An allowance of your own matters most where many people share one connection: everyone in an office, a university or a council network counts as one address until they sign in.

When an allowance runs out, hypermass sync waits, then carries on by itself once it resets. It says when that will be, and hypermass status shows the same against each stream that is waiting.

Add your key

1. Create a free account at hypermass.io, and an access key at hypermass.io/access-keys.
2. Run hypermass login and paste the key in.
3. Restart hypermass sync, which reads the key when it starts.

hypermass info shows whether a key is saved.

Where the key is kept

In auth.yaml, in the CLI's configuration folder - hypermass info shows where. The file is readable by you alone. Keep it out of backups and version control: a new key is quick to create.

Changing or removing your key

• To replace it: run hypermass login again, then restart hypermass sync.
• To go back to the free daily allowance: delete auth.yaml, then restart hypermass sync.

If a key is revoked, hypermass status shows a warning. Create a new key and run hypermass login.