"All members" when creating a category assigns everyone

Yes my intent was to not really change category permissions much with this upcoming change, so these (this and Category permissions and the new permission groups - #5 by martin ) are more unintended side effects. I don’t intend to remove everyone yet as an option from category permissions…but over time I think it’s probably a good idea to do a fast follow up on this.

The problem is that I was thinking it would be even less clear what I should migrate everyone category permissions to, but maybe it can follow logic like you are suggesting? E.g. if I remove everyone, a migration would add these category permissions for a site:

  • Site requires login → everyone becomes logged_in_users
  • Site is public/doesn’t require login → everyone becomes logged_in_users AND anonymous_users, two separate category permissions

I think this suggestion makes the most sense, and is the clearest, so I will make that change when I can.

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