---
title: "Slow mode"
description: "Plugin peertube-plugin-livechat slow mode"
weight: 30
chapter: false
---

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This feature comes with the livechat plugin version 8.3.0.
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## Introduction

As a streamer, you can choose to rate limit your viewers messages in the chat.

This can be really usefull to:

* avoid message flooding
* avoid unreadable chat if there are many viewers talking

You can set a number of seconds that users will have to wait after sending a message, before sending another.

This limitation does not apply to moderators.

## Slow mode option

On the [channel configuration page](/peertube-plugin-livechat/documentation/user/streamers/channel), you can set the slow mode option:

![Channel configuration / Slow Mode](/peertube-plugin-livechat/images/slow_mode_channel_option.png?classes=shadow,border&height=400px)

This value will apply to all your channel's chatrooms.

Setting the value to `0` will disable the feature.

Setting the value to a positive integer will set the period during which users will not be able to post additional messages.

## For viewers

If the slow mode is enabled, users will be informed by a message.

![Slow mode infobox](/peertube-plugin-livechat/images/slow_mode.png?classes=shadow,border&height=400px)

When they send a message, the input field will be disabled for X seconds (where X is the slow mode duration).

This limitation does not apply to moderators.
