# Suggestion: Hide/show group inbox via user preference or group admin setting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-hide-show-group-inbox-via-user-preference-or-group-admin-setting/70463
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [Setembro 20, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-hide-show-group-inbox-via-user-preference-or-group-admin-setting/70463 "2017-09-20T16:59:36Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [Setembro 20, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suggestion-hide-show-group-inbox-via-user-preference-or-group-admin-setting/70463/3 "2017-09-20T18:48:18Z")

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Thanks, Jay. Yeah, I hear you on all that and it’s what we do currently.

But as I wrote [elsewhere](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-to-use-personal-messages-group-inboxes-and-secure-categories/70464) today, there are times when personal messages and group messaging make sense.

Notably, it’s a goal of ours to limit the number of categories and we think carefully before we create more of them. We want to open up channels of communication that are direct and non-public for alot of different groupings of people, and it becomes an admin nightmare to keep track of all these groups and secure categories.

Also, people get really (and I mean _really_) confused about the difference between groups and categories on discourse. So why do that to them?

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