# Creating a forum available to any user with link

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-forum-available-to-any-user-with-link/138618>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-forum-available-to-any-user-with-link/138618 "2020-01-14T22:47:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Ventnor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michael_ventnor/32/167187_2.png) [@Michael\_Ventnor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Michael_Ventnor)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-a-forum-available-to-any-user-with-link/138618/5 "2020-01-21T20:27:03Z")

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Thanks. The latter might work for our situation. We’re trying to avoid groups as the number of users we want to grant access to our category will grow very rapidly.

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