Changing settings in front of the whole group gets noisy. A connection lets you do it from your private chat with Marina instead: connect once, and the commands you send her there apply to that group.
Connecting#
Send /connect in the group and tap the button, or send /connect with the group's id or @username in private chat. Without any argument in private, Marina offers your recent groups. /reconnect jumps back to one of them later.
What works through a connection#
Settings and information: notes, filters, rules, welcomes, locks, blocklists, warnings settings, log channels, federation commands and much more. Actions that need a message in the chat (bans, mutes, pins and purges) still happen in the group itself.
Members can connect too#
Regular members may connect to read notes, filters and rules privately. Changing anything still needs admin rights. Admins can keep connections for themselves with /allowconnect off.
Commands#
Everyone
Admins
Examples#
Good to know#
- You have to be a member of the group. The connection ends by itself if you leave or get banned.
- A /connect that fails also closes your current connection, so you never change the wrong group by accident.
- /disconnect, /reconnect and /connection only work in private chat.