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Groups

A group is a room within a space — its own members, its own channels and content, its own rules for getting in. Spaces use groups for teams, cohorts, inner circles, and paid tiers.

You can be in many groups across a space, and groups show up as tiles on the space's desktop.

Access modes​

Each group has one of four access modes:

  • Open — visible to the space; any member can join.
  • Paid — visible to the space; members buy a key to join.
  • Invite only — visible to the space, so people know it exists, but admins choose who's in.
  • Private — hidden from non-members entirely. If you're not in it, you won't see it.

What group membership means​

A group's content belongs to its members. If a group isn't open, its interior — channels, posts, files — is closed to other members of the space; with a private group, they won't even see it exists.

The exception is the space's admins: they run the space, so they can see and manage every group in it, including closed ones.

Group roles​

Groups have their own member / admin / owner roles, scoped to the group and separate from space roles. Group admins manage the group's members and settings; changing group roles is for the group's owner or the space's admins.

Getting people in​

Group admins add members one at a time, in batches, or by space role — "add everyone with the Core team role" in one step. Groups can carry a member limit. Joining a paid group yourself takes a key; when an admin adds someone to a paid group directly, they're granted one rather than charged. And if an admin turns an existing group into a paid one using a key you already hold, you're enrolled automatically — no second purchase.

Leaving a group is always yours to do. For what leaving means for a paid membership, see Keys & paid membership.