Configure who can subscribe to a channel

import {TabItem, Tabs} from "@astrojs/starlight/components";

import FlattenedSteps from "../../components/FlattenedSteps.astro"; import NavigationSteps from "../../components/NavigationSteps.astro"; import ZulipTip from "../../components/ZulipTip.astro"; import ChannelSettingsNavbarTip from "../include/_ChannelSettingsNavbarTip.mdx"; import SaveChanges from "../include/_SaveChanges.mdx"; import SelectChannelViewPermissions from "../include/_SelectChannelViewPermissions.mdx";

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.

<ZulipTip> For example, you can give your team's [user group](/help/user-groups) permission to subscribe to each of your team's channels. A designer on the team could then follow a [link to a conversation](/help/link-to-a-message-or-conversation#link-to-a-topic-within-zulip) 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. </ZulipTip>

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.

  1. Select a channel.

  <SelectChannelViewPermissions />

  1. Under **Subscription permissions**, configure **Who can subscribe to this
     channel**.

  <SaveChanges />
</FlattenedSteps>

<ChannelSettingsNavbarTip />

</TabItem> </Tabs>

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