Private Topics Plugin

Awesome plugin thank you! It completely solves how we do requests in our community without having to use a bunch of group specific categories.

Similar but slightly different than the CLASS case above we have the following scenario that I think this plugin could possibly be extended to solve.

We put on events and as part of the events there is a follow up topic that people use to post pictures and talk about their experience. We’d like to make it so that only the people that RSVP’d to an event see this post and can interact with it. There are various reasons why but the short answer is privacy. People post photos of their family and while that makes sense for other people that were at the event it doesn’t make sense if you didn’t go to the event. If effectively there was a way to allow anyone @mentioned someone in a post thus giving them access to the topic it would solve this case. Do you see something like this ever being supported?

I found some prior art:

  • Add users to topic in private category which is similar but slightly different, I want the group to be public but then only topics where a user is mentioned in are visible to them.
  • Chat messages are a suggestion but for various reasons those won’t work. Ephemeral, the editor experience very different from a post,

Thanks again for a very useful plugin!

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