# Turn off all other notifications except group notifications

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-all-other-notifications-except-group-notifications/62372>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2017 年5 月 9 日 16:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-all-other-notifications-except-group-notifications/62372 "2017-05-09T16:59:54Z")\
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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2017 年5 月 18 日 08:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-all-other-notifications-except-group-notifications/62372/9 "2017-05-18T08:54:43Z")

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I think you fundamentally misunderstand the Discourse permissions model. **Every new category is always visible to all users** , unless you set up a group and lock down the security on the category in the Edit Category panel. It sounds like you expect each new category to be visible to nobody after it is created?

Discourse is “public by default unless you tell the software otherwise” so statements like

> [@Peter\_Backgren](#):
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> Problem is, even if you have dozens of closed groups, the public areas leak notifications in daily or whatever the users have set as the notification schedule.

.. make no sense to me, the public areas are _public_, that is not a “leak” that is normal.

> [@Peter\_Backgren](#):
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> I can’t be the only one bringing all my forums under one umbrella, Discourse?

If these groups of people have literally nothing in common, then no, I actually wouldn’t shove them all in the same house..

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