How to segregate a noisy class of users?

[Remah (Just another happy Discourse user)]

@Heather_Dudley

Why make them all public, then? Why not have group permissions on them from the get-go then add people to the relevant groups?

That’s a definite possibility for the future. Would it handle that many groups better than the the way we have it set up?

You could ask some of the sites that use groups instead of muting categories, as discussed here:

Cross discourse category hosting?

Does discourse have the capability to host categories from other instances? Use case is a number of regional discourse instances for my cycling group with a central one that hosts all the regional content in their own categories. Or ability to tag topics for the central site.