# Category settings broken **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-settings-broken/385455 **Category:** Support **Created:** [October 13, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-settings-broken/385455 "2025-10-13T15:43:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin) #### Post date: [October 14, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-settings-broken/385455/3 "2025-10-14T06:41:49Z")
Do you know how you managed to have “everyone” with full permissions and additional groups in the configuration? For me, saving something like that doesn’t work: > [@Cannot save category security settings when adding custom group”](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-save-category-security-settings-when-adding-custom-group/382153/2): > > Welcome to Meta waving_hand I can reproduce. I think it’s by design, but I agree that it’s confusing. And there should be an explanation. If everyone is allowed to read, post, and create topics, then adding another group doesn’t change permissions. What do you want to achieve with the group you add? Maybe the text would already help. But as I reported before, it is only shown when the default locale is English, so “everyone” is in English I wonder whether saving additional groups in combination with “everyone” having all permissions was possible in the past and is causing trouble now. There have also been recent cases where saving permissions failed due to another setting. The colour in the general tab did not meet the new requirements\[1\] and that prevented saving because the whole configuration is saved at the same time. So it might be worth checking what you have configured in the other sections and whether there are any similarities between the forums. * * * 1. > [@Access to category after 10 posts (automatic group membership)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/access-to-category-after-10-posts-automatic-group-membership/381804?silent=true): > > Hi guys, we migrated a backup from NodeBB to Discourse for testing. In NodeBB we had a ticket exchange category that was only visible for active users with \>= 10 posts to avoid scammers. Setup before: Group Ticket Exchange Access Auto-join with rewards plugin (if \>= 10 posts then add to group) With category privileges only that group could access the category In Discourse when I try to restrict the category to the migrated group and its members only, I can edit the permissions but … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-settings-broken/385455)._