Groups and communities

Groups and communities with channels, roles and moderation

From a group chat with friends to a community with hundreds of members. TACENZA Chat gives groups the structure they need – channels, roles and moderation – while group names, channels and messages stay encrypted.

Channels, organised your way

A group can have a main channel plus channels sorted into categories that fold away. Private channels have their own keys, so only the members who can see them can read them.

Roles and permissions

Owners and admins manage the group; custom roles decide what each member may do, down to individual permissions. Members only see the settings they’re allowed to use.

  • Owner, admins and custom roles
  • Permissions per role and per member
  • Onboarding for new members

Invites and joining

Invite links can expire or need approval before someone joins. Join requests wait for an admin, and the group decides whether it’s listed publicly in Discover.

Moderation

Slow mode, timeouts, removing and banning members, and deleting messages for everyone. Moderation is done by the group’s own admins – TACENZA can’t read the group, so it can’t moderate it for you.

Honest about what the server knows

To enforce roles and permissions, the server has to know who is in which group. It can’t read names, messages or profiles. Groups get a new key after 50 messages and on every membership change; forward secrecy with modern group protocols is planned after 1.0.