I noticed my moderators don’t have access to the Staff category. I just installed a fresh discourse locally to test it and it still happens. I think it’s because my Discourse got installed in German and my Staff group is actually called Team. So I ran this in console: staff = Category.find_by(id:…

I just noticed I have the same issue with the Lounge category. I think the group_names=(names) method of the Category model should find the correct name of the group? Or change the fixtures?

Yes, it looks like we localise the group names here: app/models/group.rb cbb8f6f0f group.id = id group.save! end # don't allow shoddy localization to break this localized_name = I18n.t("groups.de…

Oh dear, I didn’t realize we were using the string names rather than the numeric codes. I wonder why we haven’t seen more complaints about this for Discourse instances in other languages?

I’ve seen the same (or similar?) bug running Discourse in Czech and thought it was a random glitch related just to a single user. It went away after I temporarily turned the moderator into an admin and back IIRC, so I did not bother reporting it.

I think I have the same issue here..? I have a Norwegian install - and when I’m logged into my admin account, I can’t access the staff category. I see it in “All categories”, but when I click it it just keeps loading. I made a test user and made it moderator - then that user got access.

Les modérateurs n'ont pas accès à la catégorie Staff

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) Octobre 5, 2018, 9:11 2

Hmm, no, permissions aren’t set based on the text name of the category.

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