Parent categories restricted, but child categories unrestricted?

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Hi,

If anyone’s familiar with PHPBB, MyBB, XenForo, etc these forum software have their category setup differently. You would create a category and then create child forums, and in these forums is where posts can be made. Unlike Discourse where a category is where users post, yes you can create child categories but this is not what I’m looking for.

Is it possible to do something like this with Discourse? Create a category and create child forums in which users can post? I know I’m not explaining this in the best way but I hope the screenshot I provided will make sense.

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PS: I know I can simply create a category and then child categories and deny permission for people to post in the parent category but then there will be this annoying topic list that I can’t do anything about.

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EDIT: If I’m still not making sense, please let me know and I’ll try to explain again. Any help would be much appreciated. :slight_smile:

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I’ve asked. Doesn’t seem to be on the roadmap. Extensive redev of homepage would be required

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Well, is there any sort of workaround to be able to achieve this or something similar in the mean time?

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What does this mean?

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This will be shown in the parent category, which I don’t like/want.

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You want to unlist the category description topics so that they aren’t listed?

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Sure, let’s try it and see how it looks, how could do we do that?

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Navigate to the topic. Click the wrench and choose unlisted.

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I guess this could work for now. Is there any way to hide this?

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Create some topics in that category?

EDIT: Ooops. Sorry. I hadn’t realized that was the parent category. Sometimes, free advice is worth what you pay for it!

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I just told you that the parent category won’t have any posts in it as I’m trying to replicate a category setup similar to what MyBB and others use. I don’t want the parent category to have any posts (if you read my first post, you’ll understand better.)

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Anyone got ideas on how to do this?

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On my instance if I click on the parent category, it shows posts from the child categories, kind of like an overview.