Discourse Reach and Rights

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:information_source: Summary Shows stats and details about category visibility, rights and notifications
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/thoka/discourse-reach-and-rights
:open_book: Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse

Motivation

In a formal community you would like to know which groups have access to your categories and how many people will be notified about new posts.

Features

This plugin enables an infobox about configured permissions (who is allowed to create/respond/read) for categories.

Detailed Information

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Everyone is able to see a configuration overview, with links to the appropriate groups (with signs, if you can apply for membership). Stats for notifications are also shown.

This information can also be included in post via bbcode [reach-and-rights].

Short Information

A summary button is shown near the button to create a new post
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See the provided readme for more explanation.

Relevant Feature Requests

This plugin might be a solution for

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How do you handle groups that aren’t visible to the user?

For example, you have secret_group that is only visible to admins and public_group that is visible for everyone, and users are allowed to join.
Now there is a category that allows posting for both groups. Will users of public_group see the name of the group they shouldn’t know about in this case? Will users in secret_group see both groups, even though the group is invisible for them?

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We do not use secret groups.

Since trust by trancparency is the goal in our situation, I would show all groups able to read a category in the infobox.

For special cases, I could imagine the need to have group names obfuscated, but I would still show, that there is a group defined, who can access the category.

Propose a (configurable) solution, if you like to have something implemented.