studio originalStudio OriginalJune 6, 2026 at 05:25 PM·5 min read·
Ashesh Dasby Ashesh Das

Building a Discord-Style Role-Based Access Control System for ModVoice

Building a Discord-Style Role-Based Access Control System for ModVoice

We rebuilt ModVoice access control with full Discord-style RBAC, covering server administration, moderation, messaging, and voice permissions. Granular controls for timeouts, slowmodes, media sharing, and voice authority deliver secure governance at any scale.

  1. Server Administration Administrator: grants all permissions and bypasses channel specific permissions. Manage Server: Modify the server's basic properties, like name, icon, banner, and invite permissions. Manage Roles: ability to create, edit, and delete roles with permissions higher than own position. Manage Channels: ability to create and destroy channels (text, voice, forum).
  2. Membership & Moderation Timeout Members: prevents users from sending messages or connecting to voice channels temporarily with UI indicators and countdowns. Kick & Ban Members: permanently remove ortemporarily disable users from accessing server. Create Invites: permission to create invite links.
  3. Text & Interaction Control Send & Manage Messages: distinguish sending messages from modifying and deleting messages of others globally. Media & Utilities: independent toggles to upload files, use reactions, use polls. Message Cooldowns (Slowmode): enforce a specified minimum time interval between each message from a specific role.
  4. Voice Channel Authority Connect & Speak: ability to join voice channels vs ability to speak in them; users lacking this permission are muted upon join. Audience Control: allows mods to globally mute, deafen, or move members between connected voice rooms.