# Building a Discourse for educational communities

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [August 15, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-discourse-for-educational-communities/378677 "2025-08-15T01:19:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/building-a-discourse-for-educational-communities/378677/4 "2025-08-15T17:13:23Z")

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I’m really interested in this idea, as I’m trying to set up a public learning community as well, related to my work in training for emotional combat.

This quote hits hard:

> [@maiki](#):
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> It also means I’ll be hosting an online platform where folks are definitely going to share personal details with each other, _even photos of their kids_, and a lot of my go-to advice for setting up a private group site is no longer as valid. 😅

Because I think one of the biggest challenges/worries I face is how people may put hyper-personal information on the platform and not knowing how to manage that technically/socially/legally.

What was your previous go-to advice for setting up a private group and why do you think it’s no longer valid, either in general or for this case?

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