Can I create a new user as Admin from the Admin interface?

Short answer: No — there's no "type a username + password and mint an account" form in the Admin Area. But you also don't need to log out. The built-in way to add someone from admin is Admin Area → Users → Invite, and there's an API path if you want to create accounts outright.

Invite from the admin UI (no logout needed)

1. Admin Area → Users → Invite tab → click Send invites.
2. Enter one or more email addresses (comma / space / newline separated).
3. (Optional) to auto-add them to a group, make the first line addToGroups: groupname — you can list several, e.g. addToGroups: staff, moderators; the remaining lines are the email addresses.
4. Talkyard emails each person an invite link. They click it, then set their own username and password (a "welcome, set your password" link — reused from the reset-password flow), or sign in with Google/Facebook/etc.

So you stay logged in as admin the whole time, and you never see or set their password.

Caveats

• SSO: if a Single Sign-On URL is configured, the Invite feature is disabled — accounts then come from your identity provider instead.
• The invitee needs a working email to receive the link (this forum sends via the Brevo SMTP relay).

Create an account outright (no email round-trip)

If you want to fully provision an account yourself — set the username/attributes without the person clicking a link — use the API. The sysbot secret can upsert external users / create accounts programmatically. That's the only path that creates the account for them directly, but it's API-only, not in the admin UI.

(Answer verified against the running server source: UsersTab in client/app-staff/admin/users.staff.ts and InviteController.scala — the admin Users panel exposes Invite / Enabled / Waiting / New / Staff / Suspended / Watching, with no direct create-account form.)

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Full API walkthrough: for the exact calls to create an account outright — request/response shapes, sample data, step-by-step verification, teardown, and ready-to-use test assertions — see Creating a user account via the API.