# Folders to Group and Sort PMs

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/folders-to-group-and-sort-pms/92855>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 21, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/folders-to-group-and-sort-pms/92855 "2018-07-21T16:03:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/folders-to-group-and-sort-pms/92855/4 "2018-07-29T23:56:51Z")

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Technically this would be a very complicated thing to do, permissions get tricky. What if user Jane can not see any messages with the tag #this-is-between-bill-and-bob

- Do we let Jane know the tag #this-is-between-bill-and-bob exists?
- Do we let Jane know that there are 17 messages she can not see with the tag #this-is-between-bill-and-bob?

Clearly the answer to both is no, but to make it technically work it becomes massively expensive to get the list of tags and counts.

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