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how to enable Anonymous Comments?

Cairo Braga

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 01:50:35 +0100

hello!

I'm a total newbie on Hubzilla, just set up my own instance, and would like to know how exactly can I enable anonymous (as in from people not registered on my server or the fediverse at large) comments on my site and on my posts. I saw a mention about it on the docs but could not figure out how to make it work.

thank you in advance!

Hubzilla comments privacy permissions

Mike Macgirvin

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 03:17:37 +0100

@Cairo Braga Visit the privacy and permissions section of your channel settings page. Under the channel role instead of 'social ...' select 'Custom/Expert Permissions'. Please be aware that you're probably not an expert and bad things can happen if you mess around with some of these settings. So just do what I say and don't mess with anything else. Some new settings will appear on the page that weren't there before. Find the one called 'permission limits' or something like that and expand it. Then find 'can comment on my stream and posts' and select 'Anybody on the internet' and submit.

Cairo Braga

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:58:32 +0100

@Mike Macgirvin thank you so much, that worked perfectly. :D

Webpage and Articl App - Permissions

RockyIII

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 23:36:16 +0200 last edited: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:33:07 +0200

testing the Webpage and Articl App -
I want that selected contacts have the right to publish Articles and Webpages on my channel…
so where ever i could I set a check mark in the Individual Permissions for this contacts … so they should have any permission I can grant in HZ.
Now if this contacts try to publish Articles and Webpages on my channel they have not the ability to set the permissions for this Articles and Webpages – this are automatic set to „Friends“ - even I as admin can´t edit this permissions
Is this the way it is supposed to work or is the configuration of my canal not right?

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Permissions

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Mike Macgirvin

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 23:59:38 +0200

Your friends can only post to your channel default audience. This is working as designed. You may propose a different design, however implementing it may prove to be difficult. I considered this long ago and it got to be too confusing to describe. Hence I made the rules dead simple. One must take into account which friends can see which privacy groups and which can even see who your other connections are. They may need a special permission added to post to some of your groups like "my family", or "hot girls", or even "my co-workers". So figure out how you intend to deal with this situation and make a proposal. I don't see a lot of check-ins attributed to you so this means you'll also need to champion a developer to do the actual work even if everybody can agree on how to do this without creating a privacy nightmare.

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:53:32 +0200 last edited: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:52:27 +0200

Well, just in case you really trust these contacts, you can give them channel admin permission, then they can impersonate the channel and pick permissions.

Now, are you sure you can't change a webpage's permissions later, when logged in as the channel ? I admit I haven't tested, but it sounds weird to me, sounds like a bug.

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:59:16 +0200 last edited: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 01:58:10 +0200

Also, I see two non-exclusive ways to sanely improve contact's permissions that may solve your problem :

1. let contacts propose items instead of immediately posting them, and have the channel owner set appropriate permissions when approving those.

2. let the channel owner set different default permissions for specific contacts.

I guess both could be implemented as add-ons.

RockyIII

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:59:32 +0200 last edited: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:34:04 +0200

@Mike Macgirvin Thanks a lot for your explanations

Your friends can only post to your channel default audience

this says it all.
I was expacting that i would work different from that, that’s way I check-in all options after trying some time just selected ones.
So I did what I never did before and check also „Can administer my channel“ and noticed no difference. What actually does this setting? I have not fount out yet.

Actually i´m testing the case how I could share the administration of a channel with two contacts

thanks @Alexandre Hannud Abdo for your ideas… yea - this could be an good way to do things…

RockyIII

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:38:55 +0200 last edited: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:34:39 +0200

OK found it
if you have the permissions „Can administer my channel“
you will see in the "Channel Manager" - this canal as "Delegated Channel"
if you choose than this channel it´s like as it would be yours...
VERY FINE

Mike Macgirvin

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:14:07 +0200

There are a few things that delegated channel administrators cannot do. They can't change your password or delete your account or access any of your other channels, for instance. But there's still quite a lot that they *can* do.

Permissions table - Feedback

meaz

Wed, 09 May 2018 14:36:33 +0200

Hi !Hubzilla Support Forum

I created a permissions table to help !Disroot Community users. I've read the help page and ahve spend a long time testing each permission for each channel role.
I would love to have some feedback, to see if I didn't do any mistakes or if you have idea to improve this work.

Thanks a lot

permissions

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meaz

Wed, 09 May 2018 16:56:56 +0200

thanks for the feedback and for the link. I'll modify that.

Fede.-

Wed, 09 May 2018 17:05:19 +0200

Good tip.

kris

Thu, 10 May 2018 12:34:25 +0200

Very good explaination. That help me to understand the new role federation that I did not understand before.

Federation can receive private message and comment from all not only from my conection list.

kris

Thu, 10 May 2018 12:35:16 +0200

Do you have this table in other format ? This is only a picture.

meaz

Thu, 10 May 2018 19:30:15 +0200

kris and Haakon: When I'm completely done, I will share it in a more open format. I actually did that on ethercal so I can get it in .csv, in html or in excel (ethercal doesn't export in .ods for some reason)

Fede.-

Thu, 10 May 2018 19:41:13 +0200

I have it in .ods, @meaz
Let me know if you wanted and I send it.

lightone

Sun, 13 May 2018 00:43:11 +0200

@meaz Very helpful cheatsheet, thank you! I'd like to link to this image (or html page if it appears) on a website. So I'm very interested in a link that will not break in the future. Can I safely use the link to this image? Or, perhaps, will you consider creating a git repo somewhere? Then you could continue updating the files and still not change file name / path, so they're always accessible.

meaz

Sun, 13 May 2018 08:41:40 +0200

@lightone You can download the image and add it here somewhere you're sure it won't be deleted if you want.
As soon as I have more time, I'll convert it to markdown and add it on gitlab.

Alimentazione e quello che sta intorno

Sun, 13 May 2018 10:44:24 +0200

@lightone

Then you could continue updating the files and still not change file name / path, so they're always accessible.

To do this, I think it could be convenient on Hubzilla to publish it as an Article :

It is a good format for important content to endure over time
You can create by yourself an easy to record and short url for it, suitable for easy sharing
Modifying/updating the content doesn't alter the url

lightone

Sun, 13 May 2018 15:58:45 +0200

@meaz I saved the image, but thought it would be nicer to link to your repo/hub, since you're the author :) I'll upload the image directly to website for now, and later change for the link to your GitLab repo. Thanks!

meaz

Sun, 13 May 2018 17:32:20 +0200

I'm actually creating howto for dishub, so that we'll probably there soon.

adinfinitum

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:29:28 +0200