diff --git a/Quick-Start-Guide.md b/Quick-Start-Guide.md index 176c165..cdc369e 100644 --- a/Quick-Start-Guide.md +++ b/Quick-Start-Guide.md @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ If your devices fail to connect to each other, both of you should go back to the #### Adding a contact at a distance -When you choose "Add contact at a distance", Briar will show a link that needs to be sent to the person you want to add. You can send the link via another app such as Signal. Your contact also needs to send you their link. Paste your contact's link and choose a nickname for them. If you and your contact are both signed into Briar and both have Internet access then your contact should be added to your contact list within a few minutes. +When you choose "Add contact at a distance", Briar will show a link that you should send to the person you want to add. You can send the link via another app such as Signal. Your contact also needs to send you their link. Paste your contact's link and choose a nickname for them. If you and your contact are both signed into Briar and both have Internet access then your contact should be added to your contact list within a few minutes. ### Send a message @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ Please note that Briar will only synchronize messages with your contacts, not wi But this doesn't work for private messages: they're only synchronized directly between the sender and recipient. -A forum is a good way for a group of people to keep in touch without Internet access. To make sure that forum posts are synced between all members of the forum, introduce all the members so they become contacts, and make sure that everyone invites everyone else to the forum and accepts the invitations, even if they already belong to the forum. This will ensure that whenever two members are within Bluetooth or Wi-Fi range they synchronize all the forum messages they've received. +A forum is a good way for a group of people to keep in touch without Internet access. To make sure that forum posts are synced between all members of the forum, introduce all the members so they become contacts, and make sure that everyone invites everyone else to the forum and accepts the invitations, even if they already belong to the forum. This will ensure that whenever two members are within Bluetooth or Wi-Fi range they can synchronize the forum messages they've received. -If lots of people within Wi-Fi range want to communicate, it can be useful to create a Wi-Fi hotspot on one person's phone. Even if the hotspot doesn't have Internet access, Briar can use it to communicate with contacts who are connected to the same hotspot. +If a group of people within Wi-Fi range want to communicate, it can be useful to create a Wi-Fi hotspot on one person's phone. Even if the hotspot doesn't have Internet access, Briar can use it to communicate with contacts who are connected to the same hotspot. If it's too risky to carry your phone from place to place (eg checkpoints), you can sync encrypted messages using a USB stick or SD card to carry them more discreetly.