About visibility

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About Visibility

The discussion revolves around controlling visibility of topics and categories in a forum. Enrico_Enrico initially inquires about two possibilities:

  1. Sharing visibility between select groups or categories, allowing them to see each other’s topics.
  2. Displaying all topic lists on the homepage, but restricting access to certain threads with a “You’re not allowed to see this page” message.

Pfaffman suggests creating a group with access to all categories, but questions the usefulness of showing users topics they cannot access, as it may be frustrating.

Enrico_Enrico seeks clarification on creating the suggested group and defends the idea of showing restricted topics, citing examples of other sites (like vBulletin) that do this to showcase more active content and encourage registration.

1

Is there the possibility to:

  • Share visibility between some groups or categories (eg. I have 10 groups/categories and I want 3 of them to be able the see each other’s topics)

  • Show all the topic list in the homepage but when someone opens a restricted thread gets the message “You’re not allowed to see this page”? This could be important when launching a new website

Thank you

2

You might create another group that has access to all of the categories.

You want people to see lists of topics that they cannot access? I think that I’ve seen some plugins that do that, but they seems like a way to annoy users. Why know about things you can’t see?

3

How?

Many sites to this (vbulletin), in order to show that there are active more active topics than what you see without registration