How extensible can I make my installation in terms of sub domains and restricting membership to them?

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Hello there, after more than 2 years in the planning it is less than 24 hours since I stumbled across Discourse and I’m still a bit gobsmacked at having found what seems to be the perfect solution!

I have quite a complex structure in mind and was hoping to ask for some pointers if I may.

I want a structure where the functionality varies. Also there will potentially be very large number of smaller size groups, mainly separated and distinct by location.

The subject is mental health related so privacy is very important in respect to people feeling safe enough to disclose. This must be in the confidence and confines of their local support group.

Each group would also have a public facing section for general local info and advice but all logged-in content would be hidden. I would also like to have more groups including a national and also regional ones that were fully public. The localised communities would have the ability to decide what was ok to make public.

I have the domain ****peer.support. I live in Bigtown so I would want:

bigtown.****peer.support

… as a sub domain for my local group. My kids go to the local school so I would want:

school.****peer.support

Is this doable? Many thanks in advance
Matt :slightly_smiling_face:

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So different domains (bigtown/school) point to the same forum but in different groups?

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That’s right. There will be 100s of groups, all private and not connected. Each with their own sub domain.

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I may be wrong, but I don’t think this is very possible, unless you redirect these domains to the pages of each respective group.

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If you have all users in one forum, they can all see each other for example in autocomplete for @mentions (related topic). While you can limit for example posting to specific categories based on the groups, you cannot configure the visibility of other users. So features like personal messages are either enabled or disabled, but you cannot prevent users from the school group to message users from the bigtown group.
Is that a problem? Then you need separate forums.

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