Hidden Group Membership

[alehandrof (Alex Armstrong)]

FWIW, the other day I banged into the issue that Joshua asked about:

Making a user's primary group non-visible (eventually) leads to a missing page

I’m guilty of trying something weird. But the system does allow it All the users in our Discourse are automatically members of groups based on their institutional affiliation (@myuni.edu or whatever). I’ve made these institutional groups the “primary” groups. I did this because I’m using the group’s “title” field to convey users’ institutional affiliation. Here’s what it looks like in a topic: [image] For various reasons, I don’t want these groups to be visible to users. So I’ve mad…

It wasn’t a big issue for me, since I was able to easily use Joshua’s JS to remove the link. But it would be nice if (eventually) the system was cleverer about handling this edge case – i.e., not using a link if the linked page isn’t available to the user.