# Single community with multiple sub-communities

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/single-community-with-multiple-sub-communities/361252
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [April 10, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/single-community-with-multiple-sub-communities/361252 "2025-04-10T13:27:23Z")
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### Author: ![RachFeverBee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rachfeverbee/32/484490_2.png) [@RachFeverBee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RachFeverBee)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2025, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/single-community-with-multiple-sub-communities/361252/6 "2025-04-14T08:57:43Z")

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> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> - **Do you want members in one to be able to freely participate in the others?**  
> Should it _feel_ like one larger community to them? Or should it feel like they are moving between completely different communities when they participate in one vs. the other?
> - **Do you want conversations in one to be able to cross over into the others?**  
> For example, do you expect or want to encourage a lot of cross-linking of discussions, or quoting pieces of one conversation in the other, etc? Or do you think that kind of behavior is unlikely, not worth encouraging, or even worth discouraging?
> - **Can you share any examples of the different features and functionality you expect each to use?**  
> I can imagine a few different things you may have in mind here, but any examples you can share to help illustrate further what you’re thinking would be helpful.

Great questions 💡

**Do you want members in one to be able to freely participate in the others?**

No, it would be so unlikely that a member from one would ever want to join or engage in one of the other communities.

**Do you want conversations in one to be able to cross over into the others?**  
No, there will be no crossover. They are completely separate subject matters with different target members.

**Can you share any examples of the different features and functionality you expect each to use?**

- A single branded landing/home page with three links to the unique communities
- Translation plugin
- SSO
- Topics
- Private groups
- Ability to easily replicate features in one community in one of the others
- Potentially some development work for member so self-select which of the three communities they want to be a member of
- Ability for the Community Manager to make changes across all three communities _or_ across one community depending on their need
- An Analytical Hub for one community (at first) [Creating an Analytical Hub using Categories, Approval Process and Upvoting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/creating-an-analytical-hub-using-categories-approval-process-and-upvoting/348147)

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