I read a lot about group feature but hard to understand for me every time. Like, when we joined group on facebook, there is a different dashboard where everyone can discuss about that specific topic but I haven’t found that in my discourse(If there, kindly correct me) I created group, then I joine…

A group is a collection of users. A category is a collection of topics. You can use groups to control access to categories. One use of groups is to create categories that are available only to members of a group. Or you could make it so that everyone can read, but only members can reply or post.

As my forum has many category like Science, International Relationship, Politics, Computer Programming, Economics, Social Media Marketing. I hide some category by through userlevel but i don’t want to hide discussion for new user who are interested in specific topic because it will encourage him/he…

[image] burningman: Can I use it in this way Not really, particularly if you don’t want to hide discussions by using groups to limit user posting rights. A group is a shorthand form for identifying a list of users. You can use them as security, but that becomes cumbersome pretty quickly. Ju…

Don’t assume that because somebody is knowledgeable in a particular area that he/she is not interested in something else. You’ll be surprised a lot.

How to use group feature (Very hard for me to understand)

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) September 23, 2017, 12:05pm 2

Generally a Discourse instance is equivalent (in intent, at least) to a Facebook group. So have him simply join your Discourse and start posting.

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How to use group feature (Very hard for me to understand)

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