### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2025, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-in-template-groups-allowed-private-templates-disables-it/362943/1 "2025-04-22T10:03:18Z")
When “Everyone” is added to `discourse_templates_groups_allowed_private_templates`, the functionality breaks for everyone except staff.
So “Everyone, trust\_level\_0” does not work, while “trust\_level\_0” does work.
Culprit:
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😱 😱 `return false if group_id == 0` 😱 😱
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-in-template-groups-allowed-private-templates-disables-it/362943/2 "2025-04-22T10:29:42Z")
I think the problem with ‘everyone’ and #templates has already been reported in ["everyone" group unable to see private templates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-group-unable-to-see-private-templates/277514)
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-in-template-groups-allowed-private-templates-disables-it/362943/3 "2025-04-22T10:42:14Z")
Yes, I see it now, thanks.
I misread that bug, I thought that simply “everyone” did not work, I did not realize it broke it for all other added groups as well.
Reported 1.5 years ago 😭
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### Author:  [@kris.kotlarek](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kris.kotlarek)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 8:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-in-template-groups-allowed-private-templates-disables-it/362943/6 "2025-04-23T08:04:52Z")
Thank you for reporting this bug. It was fixed in this PR:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-templates/pull/103](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-templates/pull/103)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/everyone-in-template-groups-allowed-private-templates-disables-it/362943/9 "2025-05-22T01:07:10Z")