Do you have role-based access controls for many roles other than just host and panelists?
ASKED BY · John Wallace · PONTIAC, MICHIGAN · 16 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:42:47
Three roles exist: panelist (no login, limited damage potential), producer (login required, promoted by host), and host (login required). Panelists can only raise hands and leave chat messages visible only to other panelists.
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42:35There's, again, there's nothing to do here, but it is there. Interesting. All right, let's go to our next question. Here's one from John Wallace in Pontiac, Michigan. Do you have role-based access controls for many roles other than just host and panelists? Not really, John. I mean, again, so there are three roles. There's host, there's producer, and there's panelist. There's no security around the panelist view,
43:10but also the panelist can't really do anything. The worst thing that a panelist could do, that is to say to the show. If you're in the middle of a show. They can't burn your show down. Right, if you're in the middle of the show and someone logs in as a panelist, the worst they can do is leave a chat message that no one else, that no one in the,
43:30only panelist will be able to see and they could raise their hand, which, so that's, and I could kick them out. The producer, I've actually never used the producer role yet. I built that in, but I've never used it. And the idea there is that you do have to be authorized, you have to be promoted to that. and that does require login.
43:53So both the host and the producer roles require login. The panelist view does not require a login. Okay, so you're promoting anybody can kind of be a panelist. You want to be able to invite people at a kind of a drop of a hat, but the other two have a little bit more ability to touch the back end of things so you're going to know who it is and make sure that they can, yeah.
44:15You've seen their ID before they walk through the door. Yep, exactly. Let's go to our next question. Cindy Drozda in Erie, Colorado is very excited about this app. Does it enable you to create scenes with one or more panelists in the spotlight in a Zoom meeting? Yeah, no, it does not control Zoom at all. This is purely back end. This is purely back.
44:40It's informational. It's back end. Other than, sorry, that's not entirely true. The only way that it interacts that is forward facing is through the overlays that I built in the chat overlays. If you use the chat overlays and you're using a tool like Memo or vMix or Ecamm and you can bring those or you could technically do it in Zoom with a little fiddling, then that's forward facing.