If you can't make it work, you can use the diagnostic tool (there is a button on top of the plugin settings page), and take a close look on the «Prosody check» section.
You can enable an "Emojy only mode" in your chatrooms. When this mode is enabled, participants can only send emojis (standard, or channel custom emojis). Moderators are not affected by this limitation.
Users that are not connected to yourPeertubeinstance are joining the chat using "anonymous accounts" (they can freely choose a nickname, and will be assigned a random avatar).
This mode can be usefull for example: <ul> <li>To avoid spam or offensive message when you are not here to moderate.</li> <li>When there are too many speaking participants, and you can't no more moderate correctly.</li> </ul>
You can enable some external authentication methods to allowuser to create chat accounts.In such case their nickname and avatar will be automatically initialized with the remoteaccount information.
To enable or disable this mode, you can use the room configuration form. If you want to enable it for all your chatrooms at once, you can use the button bellow.
This also allows user to join the chat without creating Peertubeaccount (in case yourinstance has closed registration for example, or without waiting for account approval).
![Screenshot of a Peertube video page, with a chat on the right. At the bottom of the chat, there is a "{{% livechat_label login_using_external_account %}}" button.](/peertube-plugin-livechat/images/external_login_button.png?classes=shadow,border&height=200px "{{% livechat_label login_using_external_account %}} button")