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Configure who can subscribe to a channel

You can give users permission to subscribe to a channel. Everyone other than guests can subscribe to any public or web-public channel, so this feature is intended for use with private channels. Guests can never subscribe themselves to a channel.

This permission grants access to channel content: users who are allowed to subscribe to a channel will also be able to read messages in it without subscribing.

For example, you can give your team's user group permission to subscribe to each of your team's channels. A designer on the team could then follow a link to a conversation in the private engineering channel, and read it without subscribing. They could subscribe if they need to send a message there, without asking for help.

If you have permission to administer a public channel, you can configure who can subscribe to it. For private channels, you additionally need to have content access in order to change this configuration.

  • Desktop/Web

  1. Click on the gear () icon in the upper right corner of the web or desktop app.

  2. Select Channel settings.

  3. Click All channels in the upper left.

  4. Select a channel.

  5. Select the General tab on the right.

  6. Under Channel permissions, configure Who can subscribe to this channel.

  7. Click Save changes.

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