Hello, Since recently ish I’ve been managing a Discourse Community and the business I work for is considering locking all topics to be members-only. What would be the best way to do this - using tags? I have tried this a while back but members complained they lost access to the topic altogether, so I’m a bit cautious about doing it again and causing mayhem… Thanks in advance, much appreciated!

And the simpliest solution what Moin offered is all rights are TL0. And if nothing is needed to show then forced login.

Thank you both, much appreciated!! :slight_smile:

Locking topics to be accessed by members-only

Moin June 18, 2024, 10:11am 2

You can use the categoriy permissions to configure who is allowed to see topics in a category

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