Add "roles" for site administrators and channels

[omarroth]

For folks hosting their own instance of Invidious, it is desirable to customize the home page and disable various other aspects of the site. Some of the desired options include:

• Hide watched videos or disable "top" page for smaller instances Add option to disable "TOP" videos (for better privacy on small instances) #294
• Disable creation of new users Add option to disable registration #293
• Change default home page Make landing page configurable #295
• Disable captcha Option to disable captcha #320

Although other options for administrators would also be helpful for managing instances. This issue would also include the ability to change the role of a user to administrator or channel owner, the latter of which would likely be done automatically.

In #264, there was some mention of allowing channel owners to change comment settings under videos, and I can see that functionality being extended to be more useful. I'll probably add a list here as well for any functionality that is suggested.

This issue is to help track the functionality mentioned here, and as a prerequisite for the above issues.

[tmiland]

Any progress on "Hide watched videos or disable "top" page for smaller instances"? 🙂

[omarroth]

Unfortunately not. I've been focusing on bug fixes before new features, so I haven't had much time to look at this. Consider this first on the list.

[tmiland]

Unfortunately not. I've been focusing on bug fixes before new features, so I haven't had much time to look at this. Consider this first on the list.

Thank you, no worries. 👍

[Perflyst]

Just a side node, if you add your instance to the public instance list in the wiki, users come from alone and fill your "Top" with a lot of crazy stuff.

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[omarroth]

Added with a39b158. You can make yourself an administrator by adding your user ID to the config like this:

#...
domain: invidio.us
admins:
- YOUR_USER_ID

Which will show the following in /preferences:

Saving site preferences will write to config.yml. You can also edit the config directly.

I'd like there to be a better way of designating a user admin. For assigning a user as owner of a channel, I'll plan on adding a role column to users, and refactoring this to work similarly.

For additional preferences I'd recommend opening a new issue. Since support for administrator preferences has been added I'm going to close this, and handle channel owners as a separate issue.