Hi, we are now testing Discourse. All our categories will be open to all to see and post but there will be a few categories that will be accessible only to users who request access to them. I have created a user group “private1” (as we’ll have about 3 private categories). In the category to be p…

I know. What I mean is have the subcategories set to proper security restrictions, so non-paid users won’t see them. And put list of the categories in the top category, so people know they are there, just hidden. Maybe one topic for each hidden category. Actually doesn’t have to make them subcat…

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david (David Taylor) October 11, 2017, 7:00pm 4

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