Groups
Buzzio Groups are chat rooms for friends, teams, trips, and circles. When you create a group you choose two things up front:
- History mode — end-to-end (E2E) or open-history
- Lifetime — permanent or temporary (up to 30 days)
That gives four real options: permanent E2E, temporary E2E, permanent open-history, and temporary open-history. You pick the mode at create time — you cannot switch history mode or permanence later.
Get started
- Create a new group in Buzzio.
- Choose E2E or open-history, and permanent or temporary.
- Set a name, optional description/rules, avatar, and invite settings.
- Optionally turn on Secure View and (for E2E) Vanish.
- Invite people with the invite link / QR (and optional password or approval).
- Chat, pin, react, and manage members from the group.
A group can have up to 500 members.
Choose the right group type
| If you want… | Choose |
|---|---|
| Ongoing private circle; new joiners don’t get old backscroll | Permanent E2E |
| Same privacy, but the room should die on a timer | Temporary E2E |
| Shared history so late joiners can catch up | Permanent open-history |
| Shared history only while the event is alive | Temporary open-history |
In plain terms:
- E2E — messages are sealed for members; Buzzio is not designed to read the transcript. New people get access to future chat, not a full old archive.
- Open-history — the room keeps shared encrypted history so people who join later can scroll back. Built for clubs, classes, and projects that onboard mid-way.
- Temporary — you pick a duration; when time is up the group ends and is wiped from the usual group list / room content path.
Temporary duration presets
1h · 2h · 6h · 12h · 1d · 2d · 3d · 7d · 10d · 14d · 20d · 30d (max 30 days).
Invite people
Invite links carry membership access (group id + invite token) — not your recovery phrase and not encryption keys.
Useful controls:
- Share invite link / QR
- Optional join password (minimum about 4 characters)
- Optional require member approval
- Regenerate invite (Super Admin) to invalidate old links
- Permanent groups: join attempt cap (3); removed people can be banned from self-rejoining
Roles
| Role | Day-to-day power |
|---|---|
| Super Admin (creator / owner) | Full control: promote/demote admins, transfer ownership, regenerate invite, change join password, edit description & rules, dissolve when appropriate |
| Admin | Add/remove members (not Super Admin), approve joins, share invite, pin messages, help moderate |
| Member | Chat (unless only admins can send), leave, use normal message tools |
Other room options Super Admin / Admin may use:
- Only admins can send (announcement-style)
- Hide full member list from ordinary members
- Pin messages (pin durations on the order of 24 hours / 7 days / 30 days)
- Batch remove / ban and removal history for operators
Members can still use personal device prefs such as local lock, clear chat, media visibility, and read-receipt preference.
Chat features
In a group you can typically:
- Send text and media
- Reply and react
- Forward within normal type limits
- Browse a media / links / docs gallery
- Use view-once media where supported
- Report for safety
Not first-class in groups today: @mentions, polls, and message edit.
At larger sizes (around 100+ members), some push wake behavior may be batched for scale — messages still arrive through normal sync.
Vanish and Secure View in groups
These are set when you create the group (not the same mutual handshake as 1-to-1).
| Tool | Groups behavior |
|---|---|
| Secure View | Create-time screenshot / screen-recording hardening for the room (E2E and open-history). |
| Vanish | Create-time option on E2E groups only (not on open-history). TTL options like 5s · 1m · 5m · 1h · 6h. |
Capture protection is stronger on some platforms than others — treat it as hardening.
Leave, remove, and end a group
- Members can leave.
- Admins can remove / ban.
- Temporary groups auto-end at expiry and wipe that room’s content path; members get notified.
- Permanent groups live until dissolve / delete by authorized roles.
Tips and limits
- Max 500 members.
- History mode and permanence are create-time only.
- Vanish is for E2E groups; open-history does not use Vanish.
- Use Communities if you need many channels, Discord-style roles, and events.
- Use Broadcast Channels if you only need admin announcements to followers.
Related features
- Communities — multi-channel servers with categories, roles, and events.
- 1-to-1 chat — private messages with one person.
- Whisper private chat — temporary anonymous QR rooms.