# Any way to hide categories from Guests?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-hide-categories-from-guests/117699
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [14 במאי,‏ 2019,‏ 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-hide-categories-from-guests/117699 "2019-05-14T14:37:43Z")
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### Author: ![schleifer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schleifer/32/86416_2.png) [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)
#### Post date: [14 במאי,‏ 2019,‏ 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-hide-categories-from-guests/117699/10 "2019-05-14T17:51:21Z")

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You can suppress a category from latest topics for _all_ users, or you can default mute it for logged in users. The exact configuration you want is not possible because mute does not affect anons 🐁

That may change eventually:

> [@Is there a way to globally suppress a category from mailing list mode?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-globally-suppress-a-category-from-mailing-list-mode/56758/6):
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> imo, default mute should apply to anon as well, that is simply an oversight in our current design.

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