Learn about Fangout roles#

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There are 3 types of user roles with different permission levels in Fangout: studio admin, channel admin, and member.

Studio admin#

When a studio is first created, the person who set it up is made a studio admin. It is a studio-specific role, meaning that someone can be a studio admin for one studio but only a member on another studio. Studio admins have the following privileges:

  • Access to the Studio Settings menu.

  • Ability to change the studio name.

  • Access to the Manage Members menu, where they can control whether studio members are a Member or a Studio Admin.

  • Ability to manage all aspects of a studio, such as joining and managing private channels they’re not a member of.

Channel admin#

The person who creates a channel is assigned the channel admin role for that channel. People with the channel admin role have the following privileges:

  • Ability to assign the channel admin role to other members of the channel.

  • Ability to remove the channel admin role from other holders of the channel admin role.

  • Ability to remove members from the channel.

  • Ability to configure channel actions that automate tasks based on trigger conditions, such as joining a channel or sending a message in a channel.

Member#

This is the default role given to users when they join a studio. Members have basic permissions on a Fangout studio.

  • Ability to invite people to the channel.

  • Ability to send, replay and receive messages.

  • Ability to view and operate files with full permissions in the channel with the system storage. For the self-hosted storage, members will be able to access files based on the custom permissions.