Making topics private and visible for not logged in users

[david (David Taylor)]

You may be interested in this plugin. Make sure not to use it for anything sensitive (topic content is still available in search results)

Discourse Category Lockdown

This plugin allows you to restrict access to topic pages in a category. Topic titles will still show up in topic lists, search, user activity & digest emails. This is a great way to advertise the activity in a “members-only” category, which may charge for access. It IS NOT designed to keep the contents of the category 100% private - if someone is determined enough they will be able to piece together the content from search results. Each category has a couple of new settings in the Security tab…