Basically, we’re hoping to set up groups to manage posting permissions within a topic, but we still want every user and unregistered guests to be able to read what is posted. Any way to make this work?

Category → Security [image] kaikki is all in egnlish I don’t understand point of Restrict Replies, though.

I get that you can do it for a category, but we’re hoping to not have to make an entire new category given all of these topics are already neatly sorted into categories and subcategories. We’re really hoping for the ability to restrict replies (and likes, actually) on a per-topic basis.

You can’t out of the box AFAIK. But I would like to be wrong now.

[image] orangeandblack5: We’re really hoping for the ability to restrict replies (and likes, actually) on a per-topic basis. You might want to archive those topics. [image] Understanding closed, unlisted, and archived topics Site Management bookmark Thi…

Not sure how that still allows users of a certain group to post there…

Ah, sorry @orangeandblack5 , I wasn’t considering your original question, just replying to this part: [image] orangeandblack5: I get that you can do it for a category, but we’re hoping to not have to make an entire new category given all of these topics are already neatly sorted into categories …

[image] maiki: :thinking: I’m curious: why do you not want anyone who can read the topics not be able to like them? I thought of archiving because maybe you wanted to “freeze” them, but it sounds like you want some folks to have the like ability and others to not have it. I love hearing how peop…

I also think the only way to achieve this without custom code is adding a dedicated sub-category for each game or discussion that you want to restrict. This sounds cumbersome, but as you already have to set up a dedicated group each time it’s actually not that much more of a manual effort. In any ca…

The issue with that is that we already use sub-categories to sort things. We’ll consider it at least, but it’s really not ideal because we’d need to cut out an entire layer of sorting/organization and that could make the site way harder to navigate, especially for new users

I suspect that you should use tags to do some of that organisation. See It’s Time We Talked About Tags . There isn’t going to be an easy way to get per topic permissions.

Is there any way to restrict posting in a topic to members of a group, but allow all users to read the topic?

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maiki (maiki) June 27, 2022, 7:19pm 5

You might want to archive those topics.

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Is there any way to restrict posting in a topic to members of a group, but allow all users to read the topic?

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