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Community — Overview

April 25, 2026

Open a community on your channel — readers log in, get a profile, and post their own content under the policy you set.


Every channel can host a Community — a space where readers log in with their existing OmniCon account, pick a per-community handle, and post their own content alongside yours. You decide who can post immediately, what needs review, and who's allowed to moderate.

When to use it

A Community fits when you want to turn one-way publishing into a two-way conversation. Common shapes:

  • User-contributed content. A cooking site lets readers post their own recipes. A travel blog lets readers share trip reports. The host curates; the community produces.
  • Q&A or support. Customers post questions, your team and trusted members answer.
  • Member areas behind a brand. A private community visible only to logged-in members, sitting on your custom domain.

If you just want comments on articles, that's a different feature. Community is for letting readers create their own posts as first-class content.

How it fits with the rest of OmniCon

A Community attaches to one Channel. It's not a separate workspace — it lives inside the channel's URL space (or, with a verified custom domain, on your own host) and shares the channel's authors, search, and admin model.

  • Authentication is OmniCon's. No separate community signup. The same login works across every community a reader joins, but their display name is per-community — Jane can be jane-k on a cooking community and green-thumb-jane on a gardening one.
  • Posts are articles underneath. Search, RSS, sitemap, and the article editor all "just work" on community posts. The difference is the moderation lifecycle layered on top.
  • Custom domains are reused. If your channel already has community.yourbrand.com, the community lives at community.yourbrand.com/community automatically.

Roles in a community

RoleCan do
MemberDefault for fresh joins. Posts are subject to your community's post policy.
ContributorTrusted member — bypasses pre-approval. Can't moderate.
ModeratorApproves, rejects, or hides posts. Can ban abusive members. Their own posts publish immediately.
BannedSoft-disabled. Can't post, edit a profile, or rejoin.

Post moderation states

Every community post goes through one of four states:

  • Pending — submitted, waiting for moderator review. Visible only to the author.
  • Published — approved (or auto-published when policy allows). Public.
  • Rejected — moderator declined. Author still sees it with the reason; can edit and resubmit.
  • Hidden — was published, then pulled offline. Same author-side experience as rejected.

The author can always edit and resubmit a rejected or hidden post — content isn't destroyed, just made not-publicly-visible.

Where to next

community overview