# Make private group pages visible to only group members
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-group-pages-visible-to-only-group-members/19090
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [8월 20, 2014, 11:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-group-pages-visible-to-only-group-members/19090 "2014-08-20T11:20:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@michael28](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michael28)
#### Post date: [8월 20, 2014, 11:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-group-pages-visible-to-only-group-members/19090/1 "2014-08-20T11:20:31Z")
I’ve set up a private category for a handful of the members of my site to discuss site policy. The users that can access the category are pulled from a user group I’ve set up.
I’d like for members of this group to be able to see the group page while keeping it private from everyone else, but if I uncheck the “Group is visible to all users” checkbox, non-staff group members can’t see it.
Not sure if this is a bug or intended behaviour, but this would be useful functionality in a number of cases.
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### Author:  [@PJH](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PJH)
#### Post date: [8월 20, 2014, 12:26오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-group-pages-visible-to-only-group-members/19090/2 "2014-08-20T12:26:37Z")
Depends, I suppose, on whether you want to all/prevent other group members from knowing which other members are in the group, or make it an option - I can see use cases for
1. Non-group members don’t know who’s part of the group, but group members know who are other group members
2. Non-group members don’t know who’s part of the group, _neither do the other group members_.
Seems the current situation is slanted towards #2.
Can’t you simply create a category that’s read/write/create only to those groups members? (That will hide them from non-group members, but allow members within the group to at least communicate with each other.)
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### Author:  [@michael28](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michael28)
#### Post date: [8월 20, 2014, 12:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-group-pages-visible-to-only-group-members/19090/3 "2014-08-20T12:45:08Z")
The functionality I’m hoping for is situation 1 - the issue is that group members have no quick way of knowing who other group members are.
I have created a category that’s read/write/create to those group members and that works fine, but nobody knows who is actually in the group until they’ve posted.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2025, 11:31오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-private-group-pages-visible-to-only-group-members/19090/4 "2025-12-04T11:31:42Z")