Is there a way for normal users to create hidden topics? CAMRA has recently set-up a Discourse forum to improve two-way communication between the members and the central organisation. In the past, they lobbed out one-way email memos with no easy way to follow-up and discuss further. My suggestion wa…

Yup you can either create it in a secured category and publish it to another category later or simply unlist it and then list it at a later timing.

I believe the topic timer functionality @tgxworld added to 1.8 will also work for this, won’t it?

Creating hidden topics that are later revealed

codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 5 Julio, 2016 16:18 2

Why not create it in a secure category and then recategorize it later? It will not strictly show up as anew topic though.

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