As a community member, is there a way to see who the audience of a private category is? For example, in my community the general support community is « private but open to pretty much all members » but there are other « more private » categories with a reduced audience. As a community member, when…

I think the admin could share that information in the topic about the category, something like: “This is a category with limited access only for trusted members to discuss more personal topics.” This is what I usually do. [Screenshot_20260213_113417_Firefox] As a user, you can also see groups wit…

[image] Moin: I think the admin could share that information in the topic about the category, something like: “This is a category with limited access only for trusted members to discuss more personal topics.” This is what I usually do. Agreed. However, if we accept that a mixture of semi-publ…

There’s a feature request for this here too: Allow users with access to a restricted category to see who else has access

Seeing audience of private categories

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) February 13, 2026, 10:02am 2

A very recent plugin does this Discourse Reach and Rights

Topic		Replies	Views
Allow users with access to a restricted category to see who else has access Feature	18	1467	February 16, 2026
Feature allowing a Private Category to be seen, but topics remain hidden Feature	9	2217	March 7, 2018
Private category Support	9	3004	October 15, 2017
Enable visibility into a Category's restricted access Feature	6	585	March 18, 2026
View only category Feature	17	2799	April 11, 2017

Seeing audience of private categories

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