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

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

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 …

Show group only to members of other group

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 5, 2021, 11:46am 6

That can also have categories muted by default, I think.

Glad that’s working!

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