SblurpGlossary
The words these docs use, in alphabetical order.
Terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Account | Your sign-in at sblurp.chat: email, username, password and profile. One account joins many communities. See Accounts and communities. |
| Admin | A permission. Admins make channels, roles, invites and bots, and change community settings. See Moderation and roles. |
| Base URL | The public address of a community server, such as https://chat.example.com. Set with -base-url. See Configuration. |
| Bot | A member that is a program. It is either a plugin or a program that uses a bot token. See Bots overview. |
| Bot token | A secret that lets a program act as a bot. It starts with sbb_ and is shown once. See Bot tokens. |
| Channel | A place to talk inside a community. A text channel is open to members who can see it; a private channel has its own member list. |
| Channel mode | Roles (everyone is in every channel they can see) or opt-in (members join and leave channels). See Channel modes. |
| Community | One group of people on one community server, with its own channels, messages, files and members. |
| Community server | The open-source program that runs one community. See Quick start. |
| Data folder | The folder where a server keeps everything: sblurp.db, files/, file-key and plugins/. Back it up. See Backups. |
| DM | A direct message: a private conversation between 2 and 9 people. |
| Invite code | A 10-character code that lets someone join an invite-only community. See Invites. |
| Issuer | The service that signs people in. For most servers that is https://sblurp.chat. A server accepts the issuers set with -trusted-issuer. |
| Moderator | A permission. Moderators delete anyone's messages, kick, ban and manage custom emoji. |
| Owner | The first person who joined a community. There is one owner, and the owner cannot leave. |
| Plugin | A bot written as one JavaScript file in the server's plugins/ folder. It runs in a sandbox with no network and no files. See Plugins. |
| Role | A named group of members that an admin makes. Roles can limit who sees a text channel. See Roles. |
| Seq | The sequence number of a saved event. It only goes up, so a client can resume where it left off. See Sequence numbers. |
| Track | The release line an image tag follows: stable, beta or nightly, or a pinned version. See Tracks. |
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