Concepts

Explanation is a discursive treatment of a subject, that permits reflection. Explanation is understanding-oriented.

These pages are about design decisions, not tasks. Read them when you want to know why something works the way it does, or why it refuses to do something you expected.

Start with Mental model. It names everything the other pages assume.

• Mental model
• About identities and user ids
• About the two layers
• About email verification
• About users as content
• About profiles and groups
• About secrets
• About federation
• Threat model