Acting as your page

If you run a band or venue page, you can speak as the page

instead of as yourself — the post, comment or reaction goes out

under the page's name, the way it would from the band itself.

The switch

On your band or venue page, near the top, there's an

Act as … button (only the people who run the page see it).

Tap it and the switch is on: until you switch back,

• wall posts on that page go out as the page,
• comments and replies on that page go out as the page,
• reactions on that page's posts and comments are the page's.

A notice at the top of every page reminds you while the switch

is on, with a Switch back to yourself button right there.

One post at a time

The switch is only a default. The As … pull-down next to any

post or comment box still lets you answer a single post as

yourself while the switch is on — or answer one post as the page

without touching the switch at all.

Who can use it

Only the people who actually run the page: the band's creator

and its admin members, or the venue's managers. Running the

site itself doesn't count — a MusicXen admin who doesn't run

your band can't speak as your band.

Reactions are separate

Your own reaction and your page's reaction are counted

separately. You can 👍 a post as yourself and ❤️ it as your

band, and both show — in the "who reacted" list, the page's

reaction appears under the page's name.

Messages

The switch covers messages too. A page has its own

inbox: while you're acting as the page, conversations

people started with the page appear in your Messages

list, badged with the page's name. Open one and your

replies go out as the page — the other person is

talking to the band or venue, not to you personally.

Anyone can start one from the page's Send Message

button. When new page mail arrives, the people who run

the page get a notification — page mail has no unread

badge until someone is acting as the page, so the bell

is how the team hears about it.

A conversation with a page is one-to-one with the page:

nobody can be added to it, and everyone who runs the

page shares the same inbox and the same read state —

if one of you reads it, it's read for the page.

In the app

Page messages work in the MusicXen app too: fans can write to your page

from the app, and if you run the page, its inbox shows up in your app

messages — reply there and the answer goes out as the page, exactly

like on the website.