# Make groups invisible to the public

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-groups-invisible-to-the-public/59574>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 20, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-groups-invisible-to-the-public/59574 "2017-03-20T20:05:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![axim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@axim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/axim)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-groups-invisible-to-the-public/59574/1 "2017-03-20T20:05:57Z")

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hello discourse community.

here is axim from freiLand cultural center in Potsdam. We use discourse for our internal organisation and we are over 150 people using ist. It works fine.

I have a question:

We do not want that the groups or users can be seen from the public. In the administration settings you can make the users invisible to the public - “hide user profiles from public”. I find no way to adjust this in the same way also for the groups. There is a setting to make also the groups “invisible” but then this applies both to the public as well as the logged-in mode. That makes no sense if registered users can’t see the groups anymore. Did I miss something?

all da best - axim

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