I want to create a Discourse forum where different users have different forum access (based on a value in a database somewhere). Do you know any implementations of this? If not, then how hard do you think it would be to modify? Thanks!

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Difficulty of Tiered-access forum

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) October 28, 2019, 10:04pm 2

Have you considered using groups (collections of users) and categories (collections of topics)?

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Difficulty of Tiered-access forum

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