# Chat compatibility with the category lockdown plugin **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-compatibility-with-the-category-lockdown-plugin/245071 **Category:** Feature **Tags:** chat **Created:** [November 10, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-compatibility-with-the-category-lockdown-plugin/245071 "2022-11-10T02:10:01Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 9
### Author: ![satonotdead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/satonotdead/32/447830_2.png) [@satonotdead](https://meta.discourse.org/u/satonotdead) #### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-compatibility-with-the-category-lockdown-plugin/245071/9 "2023-02-27T17:05:22Z")
Sorry but I don’t understand your message at all. Chat needs to respect category lockdown and it doesn’t: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/b/1/db1b509b978a2eaef0d6cc530560431ed5e61bbe.png) That channel is showed to everyone that has view access to the channel and that’s wrong: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/5/0/0502b44ef50375ac41f7111c766dcd296f65fcbf.png) Because we are using Category Lockdown Plugin. Maybe you need to understand that at first, I’m talking about a specific escenario. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/5/b/f5b71cccadd421d2808efd80ac0c3a355257b782.png) ‘todos’ means ‘all’ and that’s what Chat respect but it’s not OK if we are using Category Lockdown Plugin that limites the real access. > [@Discourse Category Lockdown](https://meta.discourse.org/t/advertise-activity-in-a-private-category-discourse-category-lockdown/70649): > > This plugin allows you to restrict access to topic pages in a category. Topic titles will still show up in topic lists, search, user activity & digest emails. This is a great way to advertise the activity in a “members-only” category, which may charge for access. It IS NOT designed to keep the contents of the category 100% private - if someone is determined enough they will be able to piece together the content from search results. Each category has a couple of new settings in the Security tab… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-compatibility-with-the-category-lockdown-plugin/245071)._