Hello, I was wondering if there was any way to make categories muted by default for guests, but allow users with accounts to see them normally (and also mute them if they so choose). A bit of searching did not find this question asked before, although I will admit it’s entirely possible I used the…

You can suppress a category from latest topics for all users, or you can default mute it for logged in users. The exact configuration you want is not possible because mute does not affect anons :mouse: That may change eventually: [image] Is there a way to globally suppress …

For a bit more explanation of the reasoning behind this question - a forum I am a part of has recently been dealing with a transition to Discourse, and in doing to the visibility of forum games has shot way up due to the latest post being the ones shown by default in pretty much every conventional w…

Have you looked at category permissions? If you go to a category page, click “edit” and then the “security” tab you can set permissions for what user groups can see, reply, and/or create topics in that category. In this case, sounds like removing the default permissions setting (everyone) and addin…

The idea is for non-registered guests to be affected, but registered users to not be.

Ah, I see - that’s a great idea, if it works as intended!

Hmmmmm Is there any way to allow unregistered users to see a category if they search it out, but have topics be muted for them? Because unless I misunderstand, the above would completely block unregistered users from seeing these posts even if they specifically look for them. No?

No, there isn’t. It can’t appear in search but be hidden in the normal category view.

They don’t need to be hidden in Category view, just New/Latest. As if they were muted.

@sam any chance this is coming soon?

And, I guess, more specifically - could it be made so that something could be default muted for guests but not for registered users (TL0 and above)?

Any way to hide categories from Guests?

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