Hi all, searched for the last half hour and did not find any threads about this: I would like to have a group only to be joinable (and if possible only be shown) to members of another group. As far as I can see this is not possible in core and there are no plugin for this? Thanks in advance

I think you’re right. Without looking at the code, I think it’s 1-4 hours of work, maybe more of it included proper tests. It would be much faster to hard code the group(s) in question… There’s a thing called guardian that I think is what you’d need to modify. But, it would probably help if you b…

Hi Jay, thank’s for replying. I run a support site and some subjects are adult natured, so we have a group of people who have verified their age to be > 18 (manually added by admins). Now, even if you are >18 you may wish to purposely avoid certain topics / categegories. If we have to do that now…

True - my hardworking chief moderator actually made a guide on how to do that yesterday, because a lot of subjects gets bumped and it was annoying some. I did not connect that with this use case but you are right. Thank you - we will go with that solution for now, and if that is not enough I guess …

That can also have categories muted by default, I think. Glad that’s working!

Show group only to members of other group

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 5, 2021, 10:45am 4

Can’t you just tell people to mute the categories they don’t want to see?

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