Communities

Buzzio Communities are shared servers for clubs, schools, creators, and teams. Inside one community you get categories, text channels, roles, events, invites, and moderation tools.

Communities are different from Groups (one conversation room) and from Broadcast Channels (admin-only announcement feeds). Use a Community when you need a home with many rooms.

Get started

1. Create a community (or open an invite link / QR someone shared with you).
2. On create, set a name, optional community password, and whether new people need approval to join.
3. Your new community starts with a Welcome category and a #general text channel.
4. Open the community hub to browse channels, events, members, and settings.

There is no public marketplace of every community. People usually join by invite, QR, or a community ID you share on purpose.

Community layout

A community is nested like this:

• Community (the server)
  • Categories — organize the sidebar
  • Text channels — where people chat (open or password-locked)
  • Roles — who can invite, moderate, manage structure, and post
  • Events — scheduled items with Interested RSVPs
  • Members / bans / join requests

This build supports text channels only (no voice channels). Channels without a category appear under an uncategorized area in the hub.

Join a community

Ways to get in:

1. Open an invite link or scan a QR.
2. Enter an optional community password if the host set one (at least 4 characters).
3. If member approval is on, wait until an authorized member approves your request.

Banned people cannot rejoin. A community can hold up to 10,000 members.

Channels and categories

Organize the sidebar

Admins and members with the right permissions can:

• Create and rename categories
• Create and edit text channels
• Reorder the layout

Open vs password channels

• Open channels — members who can see that channel can chat there under normal role rules.
• Password channels — locked rooms inside the same community. People must join the channel with the password before they can read and post there.

You can also set per-channel who may view and who may send text, images, video, voice, GIFs, stickers, or reactions.

Extra channel options

Where enabled, a channel may support:

• Screenshot hardening (Secure View–style protection)
• Vanish-style short timers for messages
• Channel-specific rules text
• Slow mode–style limits for new members (none through highest)

Roles and permissions

Built-in ideas:

Permissions cover things like create/edit channels and categories, create and manage events, invite people, ban and remove members, delete others’ messages, pin messages, tag people, manage roles, edit description and rules, view the member list, create temporary invites, and administrator access.

Permissions add up across the roles a member holds. Grant carefully.

Only the creator can assign Creator Administrator.

Events

Members with permission can create events with:

• Title and description
• Start and end time
• Optional repeat (none, daily, weekly, monthly)
• Location as text, a link, or a #channel inside the community
• Optional cover image

Anyone in the community can tap Interested. Other members can see who marked Interested — it is not anonymous, and it is shared with fellow members only.

Invites and moderation

Useful controls:

• Share invite links and QR
• Create temporary invite links (if allowed by role)
• Optional community password
• Join request approval queue
• Ban & remove members
• Audit logs for organizers who can view them
• Temporary passwords for locked channels (if allowed)

Rules text can live at the community level and optionally per channel. Rules are guidance members can read; there is not a forced “accept rules before join” gate in this build.

Notifications

Each member can set how much they want to hear:

• All
• Mentions
• None

Larger communities (especially near about 5,000 members) often work better with mention / tags-focused alerts so inboxes stay usable.

Tips and limits

• Cap: 10,000 members per community.
• Join path is intentional (invite / ID), not a sold public directory.
• Password channels are separate locked rooms inside the same server.
• New members can be rate-limited with restricted messaging / slow mode.
• Communities keep shared room history so late joiners and multi-device use work — they are not the same privacy model as private 1-to-1 or E2E groups.
• Prefer Groups for one focused room; prefer Communities for many channels, roles, and a calendar of events.

Related features

• Groups — one chat room (private E2E or open-history).
• Broadcast Channels — admin posts; followers do not chat back in the feed.