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does Element/Riot have private rooms/org-level permissions ?

if i want to move my company from slack to element - can i have permissions at the company level (all rooms in a company) and on a per room level ?

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Many organisations have made this switch (and of course we use Element at Element for running the org).

We do have support for org wide management in the form of the Communities feature, but we want to completely revamp it to make exactly what you are describing easier. It is the next big thing on the roadmap and I would expect it land in the next few months.

https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177... is the plan for revamped communities, ftr

Must admit, when setting up our company server I didn't even consider allowing it to federate as it just looked a bit to complicated, making it easy to get wrong and potentially have confidential information leak.

You can set up a non federated matrix server where you can then control who gets access to what via invites to rooms and communities. So, you can kinda do it, altough it is probably not the best service for a 1:1 translation of a slack setup.

But if you are willing to somewhat alter it, I am sure it'd end up with a overall better setup.

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