# Make permissions visible on private categories **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-permissions-visible-on-private-categories/49480 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [8월 31, 2016, 7:53오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-permissions-visible-on-private-categories/49480 "2016-08-31T07:53:33Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof) #### Post date: [6월 14, 2019, 8:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-permissions-visible-on-private-categories/49480/8 "2019-06-14T08:14:44Z")
It is true that our Discourse groups generally map to a single category, if that’s what you mean. Even though [some headway has been made](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-inbox-on-a-groups-page-mockup/71319), group messaging is still confusing as heck for our users ☹ There’s currently no one place where someone can go and see all their messages, as I noted here: > [@Suggestion: Hide/show group inbox via user preference or group admin setting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-hide-show-group-inbox-via-user-preference-or-group-admin-setting/70463/19): > > Sorry for not replying sooner. Some of my recent time was, unfortunately, spent undoing the work for getting people to use group messages instead of secure categories (what we, rather confusingly, call “closed groups” in my system). I’m now in the process of moving everyone back to secure categories and using my “watch categories” plugin to enable notifications pensive_face Broadly, I agree with Tobias. I support the idea of having just one inbox with everything in it. I would like to mainta… There are other issues with groups – but the short of it as that using categories requires more finagling on my end, as the admin, but is more understandable for users. Here’s how I’ve worked around the permissions issue: ![33](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/3/23f005c16266be6113e6b0d6979aea1ecfcf05c5.jpeg) The link takes you to the group’s page, which allows you to view its membership. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-permissions-visible-on-private-categories/49480)._