How to create custom roles for users on Peertube?

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Peertube’s default roles are: root, administrator, moderator, user

If we wish to create a custom role, how do we do that?

For example, in order for somebody to comment on a Peertube video, they must have a pubsub registered account. We might wish to want to enable people to comment, which a user could do, without additionally enabling them to upload videos, which an ordinary user would be able to do. We therefore might like to create a Commentor role, that would grant only the necessary permissions.

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Hello.
It is not possible (for now?) to add custom roles.
But, you can achieve your use case by setting user’s quota to 0: the user won’t be able to add videos, or to start lives. But he will be able to comment, subscribe, like, …

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Hey, that is a very clever workaround and will do what is needed!
Thank you for all the time you devote to Peertube and for using your talents to make it even better.

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