Is there any way that Topics can be made as private ? e.g limit topics to the topic authors and administrators/moderators who created them ? We have a scenario where sensitive information is posted which is not meant for other users. Thanks in advance.

[image] meteor: the main problem in this case when “private topic” become “message” is difficult for stuff to manage them. The simple solution is for members to start a message sent to @staff

The main problem that is hard to navigate in a huge amounts of private massages… Of course it is possible to name them properly and then search, but still in search always need to add in:private. In your professional view - is it possible to make plugin with this functionality and if yes - how hard…

[image] meteor: hard to navigate in a huge amounts of private massages Perhaps, but I think it would be much less so looking through messages compared to looking through huge amounts of topics.

A couple of forums I visit use this for support. – Support Category ---- Bug Reports Thread can be viewed and replied to by author and say developer group. ---- Hosting Problems Thread can be viewed and replied to by author and say sysadmin group. I am assuming this is what the OP wants?

Discourse does Groups, And Category permissions can be set to include only certain group members.

A couple of forums I visit use this for support. – Support Category ---- Bug Reports Thread can be viewed and replied to by author and say developer group. ---- Hosting Problems Thread can be viewed and replied to by author and say sysadmin group. Can you please share if this can be achiev…

No clue. Was just suggesting that as something I’ve seen on “other forums”. :slight_smile:

Easy to do, perhaps not so easy to find. First, go to Admin → Groups and create the group. Then from the category list page use the Admin menu to create a new category, Under Security is what you’re looking for [image] Use the left side drop-down to select the group. Select the appropriate pe…

There is no concept of per topic permissions in Discourse outside of personal / group messages.

No clue. Was just suggesting that as something I’ve seen on “other forums”. oh, Thanks for sharing, We are already using this functionality in our current forums so we want to make sure it is somehow supported in discourse. @Mittineague Is there any possibility of developing a plugin to serve t…

Private Topics - are they supported?

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Private Topics - are they supported?

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