# Make hidden users, groups and categories

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [June 14, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873 "2018-06-14T11:37:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![robmc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robmc/32/125900_2.png) [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 12:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-hidden-users-groups-and-categories/89873/4 "2018-06-14T12:05:47Z")

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Not sure what you mean - are you trying to stop someone seeing a list of members?

As I said, the membership list of a group can be hidden (to only admins, or +staff, or +members, or everyone), but if you are creating a category where any member can participate (Tutorials), then their details will show when they post any content - so what are you trying to achieve?

EDIT: saw your reference to ‘read only’ afterwards. In that case it still works as they are not posting. You cannot see a list of members who have access to a category.

However, word of warning, by default, the site will show a list of all ‘Users’ in the hamburger menu and so you will also need to hide this in the menu using CSS

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