The discussion revolves around setting the default category view to ‘none’ for subcategories. nathank wants to change the default view when a category is clicked, to avoid user confusion about post visibility in subcategories with restricted access. pfaffman suggests using CSS or pinning a category-level topic to educate users, but nathank seeks a UX solution first.
sam mentions a feature request to show only top-category topics, which has been implemented by vinothkannans. However, nathank reports an issue where subcategory posts remain visible unless the page is refreshed. This issue has since been fixed, as confirmed by nathank.
I find I my users are confused about what other people can see when they are using a category with broad access and a sub-category with more private access (which is the model I’m using a lot). They assume that because they can see the subcategory posts in the category then so can everyone else. And it is hard to educate them out of this.
Locks on the left, yes - both categories and subcategories. Categories limit access to a broad sector, subcategories to a sub-sector. So no good there.
Good education option, but I’m after a UX fix first if possible.