What are Subscribers, Friends and Users?
Subscribers, friends and users are different roles that are managed separately.
A
subscriber gets an email notification each time you post a new article
or comment on your blog. You cannot add subscribers yourself, this
prevents people from spamming. Subscribers must add themselves to your
subscription list by logging in (so they first need to get a reader
account) and then clicking the “subscribe” link on your blog. To see a
list of your subscribers click the “View Subscribers” option at the top
of your admin control panel https://www.blogware.com/admin/index.cgi/cmd=view_notifications).
A friend is the lowest level of permissions. You invite a friend by going to the Address Book tab of your admin page (https://www.blogware.com/users/index.cgi/cmd=view_friends)
and she gets an email and must confirm that she wants to be on your
friends list. Once she is on your friends list she will show up in your
list on your profile page if you choose to display it. A friend also is
supposed to be able to see all the information on your profile page
that you have set to display for “friends only”, which is the default,
but there seems to be a bug with that and I couldn't get it to work. A
friend does not get permission to read private categories or post or
modify your blog. For that you have to make her a user (reader, poster
or admin).
To manage users on your blog click “Contact Access Controls” on the Settings & Security tab of your admin control panel (https://www.blogware.com/admin/index.cgi/cmd=edit_access_controls).
Generally a trusted reader can read all categories. A trusted poster
can post to all categories. An admin has full blog privileges. You can
also set user permissions more specifically so that a user can read or
post to some categories but not others.
