As a community member, is there a way to see who the audience of a private category is?
For example, in my community the general support community is « private but open to pretty much all members » but there are other « more private » categories with a reduced audience.
As a community member, when I post in one of those categories, how do I get a sense of who the audience is, ie how public or private it is?
A very recent plugin does this Discourse Reach and Rights
I think the admin could share that information in the topic about the category, something like: “This is a category with limited access only for trusted members to discuss more personal topics.” This is what I usually do.
As a user, you can also see groups with access to the category in the share modal:
But even knowing who has access to a category now doesn’t really tell you who will have tomorrow. The topic could be moved to another category, or the permissions for the category could be changed.
So you need to trust the forum’s staff that they keep it private, so I think you can also trust them to tell you about who has access.
