Decide: membership and admin model without Discord

[engleek]

Question

Once Discord is not the login, who is allowed to create and edit content, and who is an admin?

Today: canWrite = "is a member of the IC Discord server" (guild 84687138729259008), checked live on every write. isAdmin = "has one of the Admin / Staff / CA / Bureau roles", copied to the database at sign-in and never removed. welcome.jsx tells non-members to join the Discord.

Options

1. Stored in the database (recommended). A membership flag / role on person, granted by admins from /admin/users. Simple, no platform dependency, works on Workers/D1.
2. A curated Bluesky list. IC maintains an app.bsky.graph.list; the app checks it through the public API. Decentralised, but public, and writes depend on Bluesky being up.
3. Hybrid. Database is the source of truth; an admin action imports from the Bluesky list.

Also decide:

• Default for new sign-ups: can they write immediately, or do they wait for approval?
• Should adhérent (role 694986277556060271, noted in code as "special status?") become its own status?
• Does an admin losing their Discord role still need to remove rights? (Today it does not.)

Answer with: the chosen model and the answers above. Unblocks #156.

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Part of #162.

[engleek]

This was generated by AI during triage.

State: ready-for-human. A maintainer decision. The question above lists the options (recommended: option 1, stored in the database) and the sub-questions to answer. Blocks #156 (set as a GitHub dependency).

[engleek]

This was generated by AI during triage.

Decision (2026-10-04, from @engleek)

• Model: option 1, stored in the database. Admins grant rights from /admin/users.
• YoruNoHikage and engleek keep admin access. At the cutover (ADR 0002, ADR 0002: move to Cloudflare in one cutover #253), their accounts are linked to their Bluesky identities.

Still open:

• Can new sign-ups edit right away, or do they wait for approval?
• Should adhérent become its own status?

Until these are answered, the implementation will default to new sign-ups can edit, which matches today, where any Discord member can edit. Admins can revoke the right. Say if you'd rather have approval first.