# Hide categories from specific groups

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-categories-from-specific-groups/58406>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** multi-lingual\
**Created:** [March 5, 2017, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-categories-from-specific-groups/58406 "2017-03-05T11:01:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2017, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-categories-from-specific-groups/58406/1 "2017-03-05T11:01:45Z")

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This feature may be useful in other scenarios too, but my use case is a multi-lingual site. A key challenge of a multi-lingual forum is [how to best configure it](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-to-managing-a-multi-language-community/34664) to allow the use of different languages while not spamming users with posts in languages they don’t understand.

At present, I think the best solution is to use language groups and show categories for each language only to members of the respective language group. Like this:

> [@Best practice to managing a multi-language community?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-to-managing-a-multi-language-community/34664/5):
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> Create groups for each supported language.  
> Create duplicates of each category for every language you want to support. And make them visible/writable only for members of the respective language.  
> Explain to your users that if they join any of these groups, they will be able to see the categories in the respective language.  
> Users can choose which languages they want to see (even multiple at the same time) by joining the respective language groups.  
> Enable “Allow user locale” in the settings to allow users choose the UI language they prefer (regardless of which groups they are in)

But there is a significant problem with this approach: all content (perhaps except for the default language) will be hidden from users that are not logged in.

So here is my suggestion for a feature: the problem would be solved with a category security setting “hide category from these groups”. That way all content would be visible to everyone but when you login, you only see your languages. (Positive side effect: people are encouraged to log in)

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