I have been running a number of Discourse forums, some of which are over 10 years strong now. One recurring question we are sometimes asked when introducing Discourse’s Groups and Categories concepts is “How do I know which Groups can see a post in the ‘XYZ’ Category?”.
This is more often asked in communities where there are a lot of small private Categories (for example a ‘steering committee for a medical specialist interest group’) - they often want to be reassured that only members of that steering group can see the content therein, but as an ordinary user there is nowhere they can see this.
As an admin I can see this easily, in the Category admin tools, but for ordinary users they simply have to trust that I have set up the Category and Group settings correctly.
Users who are new to the forum, unfamiliar with forums, or nervous about accidentally posting sensitive internal discussions to a wider-than-intended forum audience are sometimes clearly inhibited from posting anything at all.
Would there be a way for some version of the ‘see/reply/create’ matrix which I can see in the Category admin pages to be surfaced for the ordinary user? Perhaps instead of the admin wrench an ordinary user might see ‘Category Info’ which could tell them key things about that category which would include which Groups can see it, but may also be extended to show other enabled features like ‘Make new topics wikis by default’, approval settings, etc.