# Can plugins achieve selective reply visibility within topics, and how can I create one? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [March 23, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-plugins-achieve-selective-reply-visibility-within-topics-and-how-can-i-create-one/259143 "2023-03-23T11:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![HuengchI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@HuengchI](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HuengchI)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-plugins-achieve-selective-reply-visibility-within-topics-and-how-can-i-create-one/259143/1 "2023-03-23T11:17:54Z")
Hello community, Discourse is an excellent forum with much functionality. I’m interested in finding out if there’s a way to let users to manually select the audience for their replies to a particular topic. While I am aware that there is a woderful “discourse-private-reply” plugin that can limits reply visibility to the topic creator, I am looking for a more fine-grained solution. To clarify, supposing that I’m composing a reply whthin a topic, I would like to be able to create a whitelist of users who can see my reply before I click the ‘POST’ button. Essentially, I want to ensure that only the users I have selected are able to see my reply, while all others cannot. Personally, I am a developer with some programming skills, but I have never worked on any Discourse plugin development before. If there are no existing plugins or tools that can provide the level of control I’m looking for, I would greatly appreciate any advice or guidance on the development approach, such as which “process” I should hook or which APIs I should call in order to achieve the desired functionality. Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time and help! --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-plugins-achieve-selective-reply-visibility-within-topics-and-how-can-i-create-one/259143)._