Public community, private community, or a mix? (context: migrating from Facebook)

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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…

? Would it address some of your concerns (despite the small warning in the description)?

Or perhaps

Gated Topics in Category

Summary Gated Topics in Category allows site admins to show a login prompt that covers the topic contents in specific categories or tags to encourage readers to sign up and log in. Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator (view in an incognito window) Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-gated-topics-in-category New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this the…

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