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[Stephen]

Are you talking about this:

Advertise activity in a private category (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…

[dylanb (Dylan Burkhardt)]

That looks like it is most of the way to what I’m looking for, yes.

Need to examine it closer but looks like a better solution all around.

[riking (Kane York)]

The “request membership” link appears because users are allowed to request membership in a group that would grant them access to the topic. This doesn’t work for paid groups which people cannot self-register in Discourse for.

[xav (Xavier)]

@riking

. This doesn’t work for paid groups which people cannot self-register

@dylanb, can you confirm @riking found the difference between our setups?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I think we should improve the enhanced 404 here a bit to indicate you need membership to a group @riking, even if the group doesn’t allow self-registration? Perhaps you could take that as a low-priority todo?

[dylanb (Dylan Burkhardt)]

I’m going to guess that’s the difference (it is definitely true about my setup). I opted to go with the plugin the advertise activity in private category plugin for now, better suits my needs.