# Message Board

There is one public message board on your Butter Box that is open to anyone who is able to join the box. If they can open the portal, they can open the chat and say or post anything they want. Depending on your use case, moderation capabilities may be important.

But first, let's look at what you can and can't do with this message board.

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✅  **You Can**<br>

* Host videos up to 5 GB PDFs, images, record, audio messages, share pre-recorded audio messages or music&#x20;
* Download the full chat or any individual piece of content or media that people have shared
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❌  **You Cannot**<br>

* Use the chat to talk with people who are not connected to the Butter Box
* Get notifications when there are new posts or messages&#x20;
* See the messages unless you are connected to the Butter Box
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## Moderating The Public Chat

As the host of The Butter Boxes do have moderation capabilities available to you in the chat or for the message board. In order to access those you need to claim your moderator position!&#x20;

The public room was created by an administrative user called butterbox-admin. The password for this user is also butterbox-admin. Change this password by logging into the Butter Box, going to the public chatroom, then visiting your user profile and updating the password. At your discretion, you may also wish to change the name from butterbox-admin so that other users will recognize you.

1. Login as admin. When you open the message board, you are assigned a Guest identity. You will need to log out from that identity, and log in to the butterbox-admin account.

**Once you have claimed your moderator status, this you can take the following actions:**

* **Kick people out.** Though, keep in mind that everyone's identity is a guest name and you may not know who's who. Also, keep in mind that someone can simply rejoin the chat if they reconnect to the box. They can read you in the chat as someone else if they've already been kicked out. If this is the case, you may want to set up a different room and you can do that. It will just be harder for people to find.&#x20;
* **Grant moderator status** to others.&#x20;
* **Set disappearing messages** (eg. Limit history). You can limit the amount of time messages are available in the chat or on the message board&#x20;
* **Remove posts.**
* **Delete the room.** Warning: If you delete the room, you will no longer have a public message board on your Butter Box. To get one back, you will have to flash a new image of the Butter Box software to your SD card.

## Wait, There's More To Chat About!

The Butter Box doesn't just have public rooms. You can create any number of private rooms!

**Things To Know:**

* Each room will have it's own QR code.&#x20;
* Private rooms are not discoverable from the Butter Box portal.
* If you create a private room, you have to share the QR code physically to whomever you want to join **who is also connected to the box.**
* Every private chat that you are part of, will be easy for **you** to find. They will all show up in 1 list.

**Instructions:**

* Tap on a room member.
* Or tap on your identity avatar. Then, select **new room**.
