# Can Private Spaces be used to differentiate between users?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [Dezembro 6, 2016, 9:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-private-spaces-be-used-to-differentiate-between-users/53847 "2016-12-06T09:20:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [Dezembro 6, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-private-spaces-be-used-to-differentiate-between-users/53847/7 "2016-12-06T16:12:24Z")

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I don’t think I would go with the Unlisting approach.  
More work involved getting the links out to the group and not 100% restricted because unlisted topics can be (and can only be) accesed by a direct link to the topic.

I don’t think Messages would work that well either. Might be OK for something that happened occasionally but it sounds like this would be a fairly frequent thing.

I would create group restricted categories named similar to the public “everyone” categories.

I guess a plugin could be written to “auto change category after n days”, but manual moving could be done until / unless that happens and searching the category by date could help.

One problem might be where a moved topic comes up in the list. That is, you may want to “bump” them, maybe with some kind of staff colored “now open to everyone” post. Doing so could also help to let others become aware of the donator group.

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