# Discourse Dynamic Groups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [May 8, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342 "2025-05-08T16:18:18Z")
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2026, 6:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dynamic-groups/365342/29 "2026-09-13T06:22:22Z")

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> [@satonotdead](#):
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> I want to display some categories for everyone (anonymous) users but not specific automated groups.

That would not make sense from a functional point of view, a user that belongs to that group could simply log out and see the category anyway.

From a technical point of view it is impossible, if a category is accessible to `everyone`, Discourse sets the `read_restricted` flag to `false` and all access mechanisms are bypassed.

From this plugins perspective, the closest you can get is `NOT excluded_group` (which is the same as `trust_level_0 AND NOT excluded_group`). But an anonymous user cannot be in a group, so no.

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