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Configure who can subscribe to a channel

You can give users permission to subscribe to a channel. Everyone other than guests can subscribe to any public or web-public channel, so this feature is intended for use with private channels. Guests can never subscribe themselves to a channel.

This permission grants access to channel content: users who are allowed to subscribe to a channel will also be able to read messages in it without subscribing.

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For example, you can give your team's [user group](/help/user-groups) permission
to subscribe to each of your team's channels. A designer on the team could then
follow a [link to a
conversation](/help/link-to-a-message-or-conversation#link-to-a-topic-within-zulip)
in the private engineering channel, and read it without subscribing. They could
subscribe if they need to send a message there, without asking for help.

If you have permission to administer a public channel, you can configure who can subscribe to it. For private channels, you additionally need to have content access in order to change this configuration.

{start_tabs}

{tab|desktop-web}

{relative|channel|all}

  1. Select a channel.

{!select-channel-view-general-advanced.md!}

  1. Under Subscription permissions, configure Who can subscribe to this channel.

{!save-changes.md!}

{end_tabs}