Participants in a channel have different roles. You are either a channel admin or a channel member. The roles are synced across all your devices and on all platforms.
Every channel has at least one admin who holds the highest level of permissions. There can be several admins. Team admins are automatically channel admins.
Channel Members
Members have no permission to manage channel settings, but their personal ones.
Permissions
- If allowed: add participants
- Notification settings
- Archive a channel
- Self-deleting messages
- Leave a channel
Channel Admins
Admins manage the roles, the channel's name, and settings.
Permissions
- Customize access settings (private/public) - coming soon
- Adjust the time period for the conversation history - coming soon
- Add and remove members
- Add and remove services
- Turn allow guests on or off
- Turn the global timer on or off
- Upgrade and downgrade participants
- Rename the channel
- Enable and disable read receipts
- Adjust members' permissions