# Categories vs. Groups?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-vs-groups/69817>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [September 11, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-vs-groups/69817 "2017-09-11T16:11:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-vs-groups/69817/10 "2017-09-12T04:17:54Z")

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> [@lbahar](#):
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> Is there a way to only notify them if there’s a new post in one particular category, or will they receive an email summary for any post, no matter what category? Would groups be a better route to go? And is there a way to organize and display groups on the homepage?

I did what you are trying to do by making the categories private and using the groups page to allow people to join different groups. I added one public category with Welcome messages to direct people to the groups page. Once they join the group, they start getting posts, notifications, emails only for the applicable categories based on the setting for those categories.

It might be a little easier if there were public/hidden/private categories. Currently there are only public/hidden, but the group thing works. You can see it at [https://community.talkbaq.org/](https://community.talkbaq.org/)

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