# (solved) private users versus public users

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/solved-private-users-versus-public-users/56766>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [January 16, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/solved-private-users-versus-public-users/56766 "2023-01-16T15:19:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![studiomuscle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@studiomuscle](https://community.glideapps.com/u/studiomuscle)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/solved-private-users-versus-public-users/56766/1 "2023-01-16T15:19:15Z")

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Hi

Launched an app today. Settings on the project are like this: [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmmczCTX0AAofyA?format=jpg&name=medium](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmmczCTX0AAofyA?format=jpg&name=medium)

I disabled row owners as I thought that might have impacted the private user count.

Every new user added to app does count as a private user at the moment. And I don’t understand why exacly ☹

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/solved-private-users-versus-public-users/56766/2 "2023-01-16T15:22:19Z")

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> [@studiomuscle](#):
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> Every new user added to app does count as a private user at the moment. And I don’t understand why exacly ☹

Because you are restricting who can sign in to only users in your users table, so _every_ signed in user will count as private.

 ![Screen Shot 2023-01-16 at 11.22.44 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/d/6/d6ce05d771abe625f6ec8db79bbcae53e1133027.jpeg)

If you want all users to be public, you should change that to allow anyone to sign in.  
If you do that, then users will only count as private if you assign them a role.

> [@studiomuscle](#):
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> I disabled row owners as I thought that might have impacted the private user count.

Row owners has no impact on user count, public or private.

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**Author:** ![studiomuscle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@studiomuscle](https://community.glideapps.com/u/studiomuscle)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/solved-private-users-versus-public-users/56766/3 "2023-01-16T15:27:41Z")

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Darren

Thanks for the quick help. That makes sense although it wasn’t clear when I read the documentation.

Changed this now. All is well 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/solved-private-users-versus-public-users/56766/4 "2023-01-17T15:28:35Z")

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