We want to hide our forum (we’re seeing a high level of spam/misuse and aren’t currently actively moderating) until we can determine our moderation plan. How do we do this without cancelling the service and retaining the data/questions that have been asked so far? Thanks!

While there is no literal way to hide a forum, here are a few advices that might help you better control the spam until you have a strategy in place: Disable new registrations Make forum read-only Require approval for new posts Require approval for new sign-up Make forum private You can use any combination of the above options to temporarily avoid spam as your case may be.

Thanks for the response. I’ve been searching through the docs and can’t find one that describes how to make the forum private (point 5). What’s the best way to do this?

[image] Milly Brown: How do we do this without cancelling the service and retaining the data/questions that have been asked so far? If your site is hosted by Discourse (https://discourse.org/), you could get in touch with the Discourse team using the support address that’s found on your site’s admin dashboard. They’ll be able to help you out.

How do you hide a forum without cancelling service?

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) September 29, 2023, 4:39am 4

Under admin > Settings > Login enable these three settings:

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How to turn off forum except for staff Product Support	12	962	May 8, 2024
Making a public forum private Product Support	2	1234	April 17, 2021
Hiding the entire forum Product Support	2	781	June 22, 2019
Is there a plugin for Discourse forum that allows hiding and replying privately to unwanted comments or replies? Feature	3	4256	November 2, 2023
Make anonymous posts hidden/moderation by default? Development rest-api	4	612	August 10, 2022

How do you hide a forum without cancelling service?

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