# How does visibility of automatic groups work?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-visibility-of-automatic-groups-work/181196
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 26, 2021, 6:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-visibility-of-automatic-groups-work/181196 "2021-02-26T06:04:37Z")
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### Author: ![mdoggydog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@mdoggydog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mdoggydog)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2023, 5:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-visibility-of-automatic-groups-work/181196/7 "2023-10-04T05:35:41Z")

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> [@Canapin](#):
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> I invite you to create a #feature::category topic with your suggestions

Done!

> [@Respect the visibility settings of all automatic groups](https://meta.discourse.org/t/respect-the-visibility-settings-of-all-automatic-groups/280998):
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> (One person’s feature request is another person’s bug report… upside_down_face) The “Groups” index page (e.g., /groups or /g), should respect the visibility settings of the automatic groups, and display them accordingly. It does this for the Moderators group, but not the others. This is due to a hard-coded exception in GroupsController.index(), which causes the other automatic groups to never appear on the index page when viewed by non-staff users, no matter what the visibility settings are…

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