Hello,
I was wondering if I could assign a default category when creating a new topic. I checked in the config search bar but I was uncertain that any option did that.
The reason I want to do see if this is possible is because I am thinking of having a public forum where the default category is private to limit access to registered users but also allowing some information public.
This forum is private because it is for activist organization but we want to share some commons without having to maintain another platform in parallel.
At the moment you’d need to develop a plugin for this. There are no settings I’m aware of that you can change in core discourse to set a default category.
Nope, non-staff are never able to create categories. By default only admins can create categories. To allow moderators to create categories, enable the moderators create categories site setting.
