I want to have a thread where only the thread admin can invite users to that thread and I don’t want it to be a private chat. Because I want the forum administrator to see that topic and even the forum administrator to invite someone to that topic

Hey :wave: By thread I assume that you mean topic? A private topic is really a personal message. [image] reza safaei: I don’t want it to be a private chat. Because I want the forum administrator to see that topic Admins can see everything on a site even personal messages so they could add p…

[image] ondrej: Or alternatively, create a private category using group permissions My goal is to create an educational topic that I never want to take down. There may be 200,000 educational topics.

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codergautam (gautam) October 29, 2022, 2:50pm 4

Maybe you should make a private category?

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