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.

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

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…

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

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schungx (Stephen Chung) September 24, 2017, 3:53am 6

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.

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

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