# Allow users to create their own group sub-forums? (like slack channels)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-create-their-own-group-sub-forums-like-slack-channels/152476
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 23, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-create-their-own-group-sub-forums-like-slack-channels/152476 "2020-05-23T19:02:06Z")
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### Author: ![JQ331](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2020, 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-users-to-create-their-own-group-sub-forums-like-slack-channels/152476/5 "2020-05-24T01:12:21Z")

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Can groups function just like a slack channel can, but with discourse forum posts instead of slack chat posts?

I’ve read through this [guide to groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guide-to-groups/110064/20), and also [this](https://meta.discourse.org/t/good-use-cases-for-groups-to-better-understand-groups-vs-categories/62875) discussion of groups v categories.

My best understanding is that groups are just a collection of people where, when one member of the group says something, the other members of the groups get notified? That would be different than what I am looking for.

It sounds like, from the posts I referenced, you could create a group and then give only that group permission to read and post to a certain category–but that just seems to be relying on categories anyway, and therefore the old problems of users not being able to create categories, you should only have a few categories, etc.

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