Default Composer Category component

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@MikeNolan

It would be nice if you could set a different default category in composer based on the groups the member is in.

I’m hoping to run multiple independent communities as separate groups with private categories on one Discourse server and would like to keep them pretty much isolated from each other.

At present when posting they have to select a category. That’s not all that bad a thing, it just would be a little more convenient if I could suggest a default based on what group they’re in.

They’re not secret groups, most members know I run multiple discussion groups, they just choose which one they’re interested in.

Similarly, it would be helpful if new users could request a group when signing up. You can place them into a group with an invite, seems like it would be useful to allow them to choose one as well, though maybe that creates issues that would require allowing private-but-selectable and private-but-mostly-secret groups

The defaut_composer_categoryis working as expected but indeed I have the same need as described above.

The use case is a forum for a school where different groups are assigned for different classes.

It would be nice to have by default the category pre-selected to the category assigned to the group.