Hello, I am working on a project where we need a discussion platform that will completely revolve around discussion topics created by the admins. Here is the scenario: We have an RSS feed and we want to have a website that accumulate discussions over each feed entry. The functionality we need is …

I think that should be possible by setting each of your category’s security permissions for the ‘everyone’ group to See|Reply, and have See|Reply|Create limited to ‘admin’. :+1:

Setting up Discourse without the ability to create new topics

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 2, 2022, 1:26pm 3

See How to create private categories using category permission / security settings

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Setting up Discourse without the ability to create new topics

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