How to change the name of these trust levels? In Customize > Text I couldn’t find. Thank you.

This can be done, but to change all uses of “Admins” and “Moderators” you will need to update quite a few translation keys. To make the change, go to your Admin / Customize / Text page and search for the word you are wanting to change. If you are trying to change the title of the Moderators group, …

It’s probably a bad idea to do that (and it sounds like it might not be possible?). Maybe just make groups that have the names that you want? What are you trying to accomplish?

Hi folks, Thanks for the answers. Reading your answers I have decided not to change the names, but I would like to know, what’s the difference in Discourse between the admin and moderator level? Thank you.

Admins can break the whole site for everyone by setting whole site level config options. They have unlimited access to all settings including globals.

Admin/Moderator Trust Level

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ondrej February 7, 2020, 9:34pm 2

Hello,
Why would you need to do this? Both have different roles.

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Admin/Moderator Trust Level

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