The discussion revolves around the challenge of managing a multi-lingual site on Discourse. tophee proposes a feature to address this issue by adding a category security setting “hide category from these groups”. This would allow all content to be visible to everyone by default, but when users log in, they would only see categories in their chosen languages. tophee suggests this approach would solve the problem of hiding non-default language content from non-logged-in users. fefrei believes this feature could be implemented through a plugin, as it doesn’t require airtight security.
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 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:
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)
This sounds like something that might be doable in a plugin, especially because this doesn’t have to be watertight (because missing a spot where the category shows is just an annoyance, not a security problem).