Cloud variables can only contain numbers, no letters. To create a chatroom I had to encode all the letters into numbers. 'a' was encoded as 11, 'b' as 12, 'c' as 13 etc why is 'a' 11 and not just 1 as the first letter of the alphabet? Well that is because 1 is already encoded as 1, 9 as 9 etc. for example. the end of a message was encoded as '00' if I want to share the message: 'abc' the code looks like this: 11121300 a dot is not supported in this case, but it can be. if you encode a dot here, it will not display it. the 'only letters' variables are not be visible by other people, because cloud variables cannot contain letters. The clicks variable is visible to other people because it contains numbers.