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Roles and channel permissions. I can't assign a role to someone and grant them granular permissions in slack like I can discord. I'm either a guest, user, admin

Roles and channel permissions. I can't assign a role to someone and grant them granular permissions in slack like I can discord. I'm either a guest, user, admin or owner. Slack does app integrations and bots pretty well.

p1esk 4y ago
Example of granular permissions?
- barbazoo 4y ago
  User X is admin of channel Y but guest of all the other channels or something like that I imagine.
- input_sh 4y ago
  Think of it as "tagging" users. Instead of a user fitting a single pre-defined category, you can add tags to a user. To give an example, let's say you have both a Discord channel and a Slack channel with the same 10 people working on a project, 7 of which are software developers. To mention the developers, your Slack option is either @everyone (including 3 non-developers) or individually. On Discord you can create @developers and add only those seven, not bothering the other 3. You can really go buckwild with that basic concept: only admin can tag @everyone, only @talkers can join a voice channel, only @projectmanagers can run some bot, only @collaborators can post to #project, @watchers can read #project but not post, while those that are neither @collaborators nor @watchers don't even see the channel... And in #otherproject you can have those same people in totally different groups and with different roles. Way more customizable than by just having public/private channels and @everyone at your disposal, as Slack does.
  - lazyasciiart 4y ago
    Tagging users is also possible in slack. I don't know if permissions by tag is possible, but the basic concept of "@ these 7 people" has been there for a while.
  - t-sauer 4y ago
    You can do that in Slack as well. They call it user groups: https://slack.com/help/articles/212906697-Create-a-user-group https://slack.com/help/articles/212906697-Create-a-user-grou...
    - Macha 4y ago
      Slack user groups are much less powerful than Discord roles. Slack user groups are _only_ a way of bulk notifying users. Discord roles control effectively both views of your server, and permissions (though why "Pin Messages" and "Delete Other User's Messages" are still combined into a single "Manage Messages" checkbox is a glaring flaw in that granularity). And some other features like colours which are nice when you want mods to stand out for public servers, or teams for some sort of competitive event server.

p1esk 4y ago

Example of granular permissions?

barbazoo 4y ago
User X is admin of channel Y but guest of all the other channels or something like that I imagine.
input_sh 4y ago
Think of it as "tagging" users. Instead of a user fitting a single pre-defined category, you can add tags to a user. To give an example, let's say you have both a Discord channel and a Slack channel with the same 10 people working on a project, 7 of which are software developers. To mention the developers, your Slack option is either @everyone (including 3 non-developers) or individually. On Discord you can create @developers and add only those seven, not bothering the other 3. You can really go buckwild with that basic concept: only admin can tag @everyone, only @talkers can join a voice channel, only @projectmanagers can run some bot, only @collaborators can post to #project, @watchers can read #project but not post, while those that are neither @collaborators nor @watchers don't even see the channel... And in #otherproject you can have those same people in totally different groups and with different roles. Way more customizable than by just having public/private channels and @everyone at your disposal, as Slack does.
- lazyasciiart 4y ago
  Tagging users is also possible in slack. I don't know if permissions by tag is possible, but the basic concept of "@ these 7 people" has been there for a while.
- t-sauer 4y ago
  You can do that in Slack as well. They call it user groups: https://slack.com/help/articles/212906697-Create-a-user-group https://slack.com/help/articles/212906697-Create-a-user-grou...
  - Macha 4y ago
    Slack user groups are much less powerful than Discord roles. Slack user groups are _only_ a way of bulk notifying users. Discord roles control effectively both views of your server, and permissions (though why "Pin Messages" and "Delete Other User's Messages" are still combined into a single "Manage Messages" checkbox is a glaring flaw in that granularity). And some other features like colours which are nice when you want mods to stand out for public servers, or teams for some sort of competitive event server.