Strange Permissions issue - help needed

[petersweb (Peter Toby)]

I’m relatively new to Discourse having moved my 500K+ post community to the software late in 2017.

I am the Owner and Administrator of my site. I have a Member only Category that has 2 sub-categories. I have setup the Category and sub-categories to only allow Members to see, read, and post in those categories.

My issue is that I can’t see posts in any of those categories when I view the Latest posts. I can view, edit, and post in the Categories when navigate using Categories.

If I login as my Test account (TL 1) I can see posts from these Categories under “Latest”.

Here are the permissions for the Category:

The sub-categories are configured the same.

At the top of the Category List when logged in as myself, I see:

I do not see this when I login as my TL1 Test account.

My user permissions are:

I would really appreciate some assistance with this as I’ve tried everything to no avail.

[Bas (Bas van Leeuwen)]

Why do you include all the trust levels with create/reply/see? There is a special group “everyone” that includes… everyone, which should be sufficient

[petersweb (Peter Toby)]

@Bas

Why do you include all the trust levels with create/reply/see? There is a special group “everyone” that includes… everyone, which should be sufficient

I don’t want to include non-members. As I understand it, ‘everyone’ also includes guests.

[david (David Taylor)]

@petersweb

I can’t see posts in any of those categories when I view the Latest posts. I can view, edit, and post in the Categories when navigate using Categories.

Have you accidentally muted the category? Head to /my/preferences/categories and check the list of muted categories there.

[Bas (Bas van Leeuwen)]

You are completely right

afaik, it is enough to include trust_level_0, since the other TLs are a subset of this.

[petersweb (Peter Toby)]

@david

@petersweb

I can’t see posts in any of those categories when I view the Latest posts. I can view, edit, and post in the Categories when navigate using Categories.

Have you accidentally muted the category? Head to /my/preferences/categories and check the list of muted categories there.

No

[petersweb (Peter Toby)]

@Bas

afaik, it is enough to include trust_level_0, since the other TLs are a subset of this.

I just tested this and could not see posts on the Latest List as a guest.

I could see the posts on the Latest List as my TL1 Test account

I could not see the posts on the Latest List as myself (TL4, Administrator)

[Bas (Bas van Leeuwen)]

“have you tried turning it off and on again”, as in, maybe it helps to log out, log in and try again?

Could you try to create a test post with the TL1-test account and see if you see that one?

[petersweb (Peter Toby)]

@Bas

“have you tried turning it off and on again”, as in, maybe it helps to log out, log in and try again?

Could you try to create a test post with the TL1-test account and see if you see that one?

Good thinking!

I logged out and then back in again. No change

I created a test post in the Member only category, but am unable to see it listed under “Latest” when logged in as my Admin account.

[david (David Taylor)]

Do you have the shared drafts category site setting enabled?

[petersweb (Peter Toby)]

Stranger still, I can see a post on the Latest list which was posted in a sub-category of the Member Chit-Chat Category. Just can’t see posts in the Member Chit-Chat category.

[petersweb (Peter Toby)]

@david

Do you have the shared drafts category site setting enabled?

Bingo!

I selected another Category and now I can view the Member Chit-Chat category.

Thank you so much @david!

Thanks also to @Bas for helping out.