# Always-Anonymous Categories Plugin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** anonymous-mode
**Created:** [March 15, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110 "2016-03-15T22:35:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Ellibereth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ellibereth)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/21 "2019-10-20T22:17:22Z")
Do you get a “post needs approval” modal that pops up after posting? The post goes through and doesn’t actually needs review but you get the alert.
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### Author:  [@leighno5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leighno5)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/22 "2020-08-28T02:46:18Z")
I recently forked this into a private repo to implement the fix that @Daniel_Lopes posted, and while it works, I do receive the same pop-up about needing moderation, though the post gets made immediately. It’s more of a nag than anything else, but I’d love to resolve this.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2020, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/23 "2020-08-28T09:45:57Z")
Please note that Daniel made an additional fix in his repository that he did not mention in this topic.
[https://github.com/discourse-plugins/discourse-anonymous-categories/commit/08dda707fb01fcdeaf78782997f019f5548b590b#diff-b61ae67bc6a57a3decb8d15b832077f4L89-L93](https://github.com/discourse-plugins/discourse-anonymous-categories/commit/08dda707fb01fcdeaf78782997f019f5548b590b#diff-b61ae67bc6a57a3decb8d15b832077f4L89-L93)
Just fork his repo and you’ll be fine.
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### Author:  [@f1r4s](https://meta.discourse.org/u/f1r4s)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/24 "2022-02-09T14:38:50Z")
@RGJ
This plugin working correctly or not ? because i did enable the option
> Force posts to be anonymous in this category
and it’s keep unchecked, how we can make the category post being anonymously ?
Thanks
Ed.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/26 "2022-02-10T08:53:25Z")
I have repaired the plugin, it is now working on latest tests-passed and latest stable again.
Please note that the correct repository is [GitHub - communiteq/discourse-anonymous-categories: Always-anonymous categories for Discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-anonymous-categories)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/27 "2022-02-10T21:48:26Z")
Thank you! Feel free to reach out to us as we roll out the complete Ember CLI upgrade, which is _years_ in the making, and will get us up to the current version of Ember.. we’re paying down _massive_ amounts of tech debt here courtesy @eviltrout 👏
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### Author:  [@stuwest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stuwest)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/28 "2022-06-21T18:03:50Z")
Users on my instance noticed that the presence functionality (“[user icon] is replying…”) in anonymous categories partly blows the anonymity. Do we just have to disable presence site-wide to prevent this?
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### Author:  [@Kuro22](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kuro22)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/29 "2022-07-16T04:13:30Z")
The presence can be specifically hidden for anonymous categories, using CSS.
```plaintext
// Replace "anon" with the slug for your anonymous category
body.category-anon div.presence-users {
display: none;
}
```
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### Author:  [@Kuro22](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kuro22)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/30 "2022-07-16T04:20:39Z")
Yesterday I found that replying via email to a post in the anonymous category is not forced to be anonymous (I did enable the setting). Could anyone help fix this?
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### Author:  [@Crius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Crius)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/31 "2023-08-03T13:28:46Z")
Sorry to bump this topic, is anyone still using this plugin and can confirm that it works?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/32 "2023-08-03T14:02:17Z")
Hi Crius 👋
I see that the linked plugin is hosted under Communiteq’s repo. You might want to contact them directly on their [website](https://www.communiteq.com/) or [here](https://meta.discourse.org/u?name=communiteq) 🙂
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/33 "2023-08-05T16:11:04Z")
Yes to both questions, we have clients using the plugin and we’re maintaining it.
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### Author:  [@0xPetra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/0xPetra)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/34 "2023-12-18T20:24:40Z")
Hey there, I’m starting to use [GitHub - communiteq/discourse-anonymous-categories: Always-anonymous categories for Discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-anonymous-categories)
I’m wondering how anonymous these topics are. Can anon topics be linked to a user’s original profile?
cc/ @michaeld
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/35 "2023-12-18T21:01:56Z")
By an admin or someone in possession of a backup: yes.
By others: no.
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### Author:  [@0xPetra](https://meta.discourse.org/u/0xPetra)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/36 "2023-12-18T21:35:57Z")
Is there some way for all users to share the same anonymous account (no chance to edit, of course).
I imagine this could be achieved through some bot that posts on behalf of users. ANyone know of such an implementation?
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2024, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/37 "2024-11-28T09:39:44Z")
I’ve just installed this, and it is brilliant. Does the job very nicely - and much better UX / workflow than the standard functionality! Kudos to the Communiteq team for taking over the linked to repo and maintaining it so well.
I’d love if it notified the user of replies and quotes etc of their anonymous posts, but I suspect that this would not be an easy thing to implement.
> [@michaeld](#):
>
> Yes to both questions, we have clients using the plugin and we’re maintaining it.
Would it be suitable for you to take ownership of this topic, and link to it from the repo?
> [@Kuro22](#):
>
> The presence can be specifically hidden for anonymous categories, using CSS.
>
> ```plaintext
> // Replace "anon" with the slug for your anonymous category
> body.category-anon div.presence-users {
> display: none;
> }
>
> ```
This would be great to have in the OP (or baked into the plugin)
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### Author:  [@Kartoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kartoon)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/38 "2024-12-01T15:43:28Z")
Is there a way to generate a new anonymous account for each post (or at least each topic)? As of now each person will get assigned the same # every post they make which can pretty quickly make the whole “anonymous” aspect pretty worthless. As soon as you identify who someone is you’ll always know which posts they make. Physically anonymize each account after use?
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/40 "2024-12-01T18:09:27Z")
Just set the “anonymous account duration minutes” setting to 0
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### Author:  [@Ivan\_Rapekas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ivan_Rapekas)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2024, 7:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/41 "2024-12-19T07:27:37Z")
Could someone please check if the chat channel actually stops working in a category after enabling anonymization?
It seems that messages in the channel disappear after refreshing the page. I was just wondering if anonymization would work for the channel the same way it does for the category 🙂
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### Author:  [@joo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joo)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/always-anonymous-categories-plugin/41110/42 "2024-12-29T07:52:04Z")
I’ve been using the Always-Anonymous Categories Plugin, and I noticed that posts made anonymously cannot be edited afterward. Is this the intended behavior, or could there be a way to enable editing for anonymous posts? Any insights would be appreciated!
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