I think we both have to accept each other’s constraints in the short term.
Since it sounds like @gassim had a system in place that was working well for them, I think providing some guidance here that stays as close as possible to that is probably best. Continue to use groups to gate access to specific categories and limit noise from elsewhere.
We are interested in cleaning up some rough edges in our invite system to make it more maintainable and understandable, and I expect we’ll bump into issues like this along the way as we do. In this case, we’re insisting on not leaning on invite links as reusable topic links.
Having read the earlier topic, I’m thinking what may make the most sense is to do something like the following:
- Replace invite links for each course with links directly to the topic
- Near those links, include a generic invite link. “No account yet? Click here to create an account and join the group”
- Have the invite link direct to a topic that is more generic overview and instructs the user to go back to their course and join the course-specific topic from there.