# Do you use the Lounge category on your community?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-use-the-lounge-category-on-your-community/218178>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [February 14, 2022, 8:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-use-the-lounge-category-on-your-community/218178 "2022-02-14T20:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 1:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-use-the-lounge-category-on-your-community/218178/22 "2026-02-15T01:28:33Z")

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I do think the Lounge has some uses, for example on another forum I was on they used it as a way of notifying us of upcoming changes to the product before the news was released, so that we could give feedback and out views on it.

On the flip side, some use the Lounge or something similar to talk about others behind their backs, so that’s something I don’t like the Lounge sometimes. But in more peaceful/civil communities, it remains fairly quiet unless there’s something important.

I have been on some communities where honestly, the Lounge had _nothing_ going on that getting TL3 access wouldn’t matter - you didn’t miss out much.

> [@Has anyone experimented with using the usual "Lounge" category with trust level 2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/has-anyone-experimented-with-using-the-usual-lounge-category-with-trust-level-2/225985/10):
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> So people can stick around. Of course they are free to leave if they want to. But usually they don’t. Unless there is conflict, of course, I don’t feel comfortable cutting people off from their contributions and a space of social relationships.
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> Much as I like the idea that people “automatically” appear in the lounge when they reach TL3, for the moment I’m reluctant to activate it for my community because of the “automatically disappearing” part.

You might be able to add the user to a separate group once they become TL3, and have the Lounge tied to that group instead of the TL3 group. This way, when the user loses their TL3 status, they still have access to the restricted category.

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