Administration

Becoming administrator

The account whose email matches ADMIN_EMAIL in .env becomes administrator when it signs up, or at its next sign-in if it already existed. From Admin › Users, an administrator can then promote other accounts.

With the HTTPS override (production), the Admin area requires two-factor authentication: an administrator without it is asked to turn it on before going further. Set up an authenticator app, or email codes if SMTP works.

The Admin area

Section	What you find there
Services	Which catalogue and service keys are set, whether each one answers, and quotas.
Users	Accounts and their sessions, invitations, password reset links, roles.
Communications	Every email template, previewed and sent to you as a test; test and broadcast push.
Stats	How the instance is used, and library sizes.
Instance settings	What’s open to every account: see Instance settings.
Jobs & tasks	Scheduled jobs and their last runs; run one by hand.
Backup	Backups, made, downloaded and restored: see Backups.
Imports	Every account’s import history.
Cache & synchronization	The catalogue titles copied into the database, resynced one by one.
Security	The log of sensitive actions on every account.
Reports	The moderation queue, when social features are on.

Invitations

With registration closed, an invitation is the only way in. In Admin › Users, invite someone by email, or create a shareable link to send yourself.

Moderation

When social features are on, members can report comments, reviews, lists and profiles. Reports land in Admin › Reports, where you can:

• remove a comment or a review;
• delete a reported list, or open it, edit it like its owner would (title, description, works, visibility), then record the change;
• on a profile, remove the picture, clear the bio, change the display name or suspend the account for a set time, together if needed, or delete the account.

A suspended account can’t sign in, its profile can’t be reached, and it gets no email or push until the date set; it comes back on its own, or earlier from Admin › Users. Dismissing a report changes nothing. The person who reported is told the outcome; the person a measure targets gets one email naming every measure and the reason.

Maintenance

To take part of the site down for a while, see Feature flags: per domain with Unleash, or the whole site with a marker file.