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Key concepts
How Jellyn thinks about your community. Servers, the people in them and what each can do, waves, and plans.
Servers
A server on Jellyn is one Discord server with the Jellyn bot in it. Everything belongs to a server: its staff, shifts, punishment logs, settings and linked ER:LC servers. One Jellyn account can be on the staff of many servers; your dashboard lists them all, in the order you last opened them.
Who can do what
Jellyn works out what someone can do from their Discord roles and the Jellyn roles they hold.
| Level | Who | What they can do |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | The Discord server's owner | Everything, including what only the owner can do, like linking roles to plans. |
| Admin | Discord Administrator or Manage Server, or a Jellyn role with Administrator | Everything except what only the owner can do. |
| Management | A management role from /setup | Every dashboard and moderator panel permission: infractions, voiding cases, approving leave, settings pages. |
| Staff | A staff role from /setup, or any Jellyn role | Shifts, punishment logs, the moderator panel, and the pages their Jellyn roles open. |
| Member | Let in with the join code | Open the server on Jellyn without a staff role. |
Every page and every request is checked on the server side. Hiding a page in the sidebar is only for tidiness: someone without the permission can't open it or its data.
Jellyn roles
On top of the staff and management Discord roles, a server can make its own Jellyn roles on the Roles page. A role gives a set of permissions (like Run in-game commands or Applications) and can be linked to a Discord role, so whoever has that Discord role holds it. See Roles and permissions.
Waves
Activity is counted in waves: stretches of time, numbered from 1, one after the other. A wave lasts seven days by default. Shift time, the required time and the leaderboard all count the current wave unless you pick another one or all time. See Activity and waves.
The moderator panel
The moderator panel is the screen staff keep open while they moderate: who is in game, the punishment form, what is happening in the server and the player logs, with keyboard shortcuts for everything. See Moderator panel.
Logs and records
Jellyn keeps records, and posts them where your team will see them:
- Punishment logs: what a player was punished for, by whom, with evidence.
- Shift logs: when each staff member started and ended a shift.
- Staff infractions and promotions: your team's own record.
- The audit log: every change to the server's settings, roles and records, and who made it.
Plans
Jellyn is free to use. Jellyn+ is a plan for a server that adds more, like applications, staff infractions, your own wording for posts and up to 100 linked ER:LC servers. Pages and commands that need it say so. See Plans and Jellyn+.