I’ve been trying to figure out how to allow users to create subforums , that would work like slack channels. One of the suggestions was to use tags. So a user would create a tag (or an app I build would do it through the api), and that tag’s page would function like the subforum’s page. The questio…

[image] JQ331: One of the suggestions was to use tags. So a user would create a tag (or an app I build would do it through the api), and that tag’s page would function like the subforum’s page. I believe tags don’t come with any user-level permissions. You might want to check categories inste…

[image] syl: I believe tags don’t come with any user-level permissions. You might want to check categories instead. [image] simon: Discourse uses groups and categories to control access to content. Have a look at the video in this topic for details: How to use category security settings t…

What you want to create is not something Discourse is aimed for. You want a Reddit/Discord platform, where people can come and create subreddits/servers they “own” while your retain all control and monetization of the platform. Discourse aims to be the complete opposite, allowing each subreddit/se…

I appreciate that this is not the normal use case, but I would definitely like to find a way to do this with Discourse, given how awesome discourse is. And I can get decently close–I create a tag with the API, and send users to the tag page that acts like the subforum page. The key piece i am missin…

[image] JQ331: The key piece i am missing is the ability to limit users who can post with that tag. That key piece is not something on the roadmap, and not something we plan to add. There were many topics on this over the years: [image] User-Created Categories feature …

[image] Falco: There were many topics on this over the years: I’ve seen those. One difference here is that I am happy to build out an entirely separate app that then interacts with the discourse API to give the user the experience of creating a subgroup. So I can create the subgroup myself in…

I appreciate all the replies. Would someone be able to provide some examples of how user custom fields are normally used? It seems like I could just add a custom field related to the given subforum (say, ‘subforum123’) to each permitted user, and then when a user goes to a subforum page hit the api…

[image] JQ331: Would someone be able to provide some examples of how user custom fields are normally used? They are generally used to collect information (location, job title etc) at sign up which is displayed on the profile card.

[image] JQ331: I’ve been trying to figure out how to allow users to create subforums , that would work like slack channels. Maybe what you want to do is to make it so that people could create their own discourse (e.g., username.yoursite.com) that runs on a multisite installation that has your…

Is this a use case for user custom fields?

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Discourse uses groups and categories to control access to content. Have a look at the video in this topic for details: How to use category security settings to create private categories

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Is this a use case for user custom fields?

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