# Allow anonymous users to view a topic?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-anonymous-users-to-view-a-topic/104159
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-anonymous-users-to-view-a-topic/104159 "2018-12-13T01:33:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![SamanthaM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/samantham/32/126403_2.png) [@SamanthaM](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SamanthaM)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2018, 1:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-anonymous-users-to-view-a-topic/104159/1 "2018-12-13T01:33:01Z")

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I would like to have a topic (or some) that anonymous users can view without them getting access to the rest of the site or having to create an account.

I _tried_ doing this by changing the security for all categories (except the one with the topics I want to share) to require trust\_level\_0 to see (I removed the everyone security). I set “login required” to false.

This _almost_ does what I want except

The anonymous is able to visit the badges page and from there, by clicking on the basic membership, get a list of all users in the system.

The anonymous user is able to see the groups page and see some groups in it.

Is there a way of producing a “bypass” url for the particular topic I want to share, that means I can “login required” back to true byt let anonymous users see the specific topic (or equivalent)?

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-anonymous-users-to-view-a-topic/104159/2 "2021-10-25T01:37:41Z")

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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-anonymous-users-to-view-a-topic/104159/3 "2021-10-25T02:38:44Z")

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The [Page Publishing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/page-publishing/151971) plugin makes this possible now.

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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-anonymous-users-to-view-a-topic/104159/4 "2021-11-01T15:00:27Z")

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