# Hidden Group Membership

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hidden-group-membership/62884
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [5월 15, 2017, 3:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hidden-group-membership/62884 "2017-05-15T15:04:46Z")
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### Author: ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)
#### Post date: [7월 3, 2017, 9:23오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hidden-group-membership/62884/30 "2017-07-03T21:23:09Z")

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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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-a-users-primary-group-non-visible-eventually-leads-to-a-missing-page/65261):
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> I’m guilty of trying something weird. But the system does allow it blush 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: 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.

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