Channel members and roles

Decide who gets into each channel from its own member list. A channel's roles run separately from the workspace's, so being a Swarm admin does not put you in a channel.

Two roles

Split two roles among the people in a channel:

• Member: writes, reads, attaches, reacts.
• Channel manager: also edits the name and description, changes visibility, manages members and archives it.

A channel always keeps at least one manager: Swarm refuses to demote the last one. A channel with no manager of its own stays within reach of a workspace admin, from the outside.

Who can invite

Add someone to a public channel without asking anyone: any member can do it.

In a private one, choose who brings people in:

• Any member: whoever is inside adds others.
• Managers only: they control the list.

What a Swarm admin cannot do

A conversation in a private channel stays among its members: a Swarm admin does not get into a private channel they are not a member of. They do not see its member list, its activity, or a single message.

All they see is that the channel exists and what it is called, and only in the directory. From there they archive or rename an ownerless channel.

If you need a Swarm admin to see what is inside, add them to the channel as a member.

Per-channel notifications

Choose, channel by channel, how much you want to hear:

A channel is on Mentions only by default.

Mute a noisy channel and you stay in it: you still see everything, Swarm only stops calling you.

The two mentions that call several people

Write one of these two mentions to call several people at once:

• @channel (or @canal): reaches every member of the channel.
• @here (or @aquí): reaches only the people online at that moment.

Swarm recognises both forms in both languages, so @here works in a Spanish interface and @canal in an English one. A bilingual team does not have to remember which language Swarm is in.

In a direct message every message already notifies everyone, so these mentions are not needed.