Nova Chat

Nova Chat is the community-paid message allowance that comes with Community PRO.

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In short

On Community PRO, members' messages to Nova in the server or group draw from a shared community pool (150 a day, 2,500 a month, 50 per member per day) instead of their own AI allowance. Nothing to enable.

Nova Chat is the community-paid message allowance that comes with Community PRO. In a PRO server/group, members' conversations with Nova are paid for by the community's own pooled budget — so a member chatting with Nova there doesn't spend their own AI allowance.

Without it, every member talks to Nova on their own personal allowance. With Nova Chat, your community absorbs that cost: a newcomer with zero history can ask Nova twenty questions in your server on day one, and still have their full personal allowance left for DMs and other communities.

The Pool

Budget	Limit
Community pool, per day	150 messages
Community pool, per month	2,500 messages
Fair share, per member per day	50 messages

The fair-share cap is what keeps the pool honest: one hyperactive member can't drain the whole day's budget before anyone else wakes up. After a member's 50th pooled message of the day, they simply continue on their own personal allowance.

What Members See

Nothing, usually — that's the point. Nova just answers, and nobody's personal allowance moves.

The only time Nova Chat becomes visible is when a budget runs out mid-day and the member's own allowance is also used up. Then, instead of the generic limit notice, Nova explains what actually happened:

🚫 Nova Chat has used up this community's daily message budget (150/day). It resets automatically — no action needed. Each member uses their own allowance until it resets.

Checking the Pool

Any admin can see live pool usage in the plan status — in your server/group, ask:

"@Nova what plan are we on?" · "@Nova show our plan status"

The status card includes the Nova Chat line:

💬 Nova Chat pool: 37/150 messages today · 412/2,500 this month —
   members chat with Nova here without spending their own AI
   allowance (fair-share 50/member/day).

The Fine Print

Question	Answer
Does it apply in DMs?	No — the pool covers messages inside the PRO server/group. DMs always use your own allowance.
Do admins draw from the pool?	Bot admins bypass rate limits entirely and never touch the pool.
Do cooldowns still apply?	Yes — the short per-user cooldown and the per-server hourly limit still protect against bursts; the pool only replaces the personal allowance.
What about free communities?	Nothing changes — members use their own allowance exactly as before.
Both platforms?	Yes — a plan covering a Discord server and a Telegram group shares one pool across both.

Nova Chat pairs naturally with Nova Soul (your community's custom persona) — together they make Nova feel like your community's own bot: it speaks with your identity, on your budget.