Non-admins can not see tag usages for categories they have access to

Functie
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This is a very weird phenomenon to me: Tags only used in non-public categories are not shown on the tag overview, even if you have access to the categorie, unless you are admin (or maybe moderator). This seems like a bug to me.

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Check the tag permissions. It’s possible to create tags that are usable by only certain groups. It’s almost certainly not a bug. See Admin guide to tags in Discourse

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Tags on private categories are hidden for normal users from the tag page by default.

Maybe you want to change the include secure categories in tag counts site setting

When enabled, count of topics for a tag will include topics that are in read restricted categories for all users. When disabled, normal users are only shown a count of topics for a tag where all the topics are in public categories.
When enabled, count of topics for a tag will include topics that are in read restricted categories for all users. When disabled, normal users are only shown a count of topics for a tag where all the topics are in public categories.1045×215 63.5 KB

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My expectation would be that the counts just depend on the access privileges of the users.

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I am moving this to feature, it is by design now. It may be possible to make a change here, but the caching logic we would need to add is enormous, we can not afford to work through millions of topics each time you head to the tags page so we would need to have some sort of per-user-group cache of counts which would be a lot to store and update.

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