# Universal Landing Topic **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [July 23, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/universal-landing-topic/233854 "2022-07-23T07:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/universal-landing-topic/233854/5 "2022-07-25T16:31:32Z")
Our solution on invite/approval sites is to have a single category that is read-only to “everyone” and containins a single topic. That topic outlines the processes and rules which govern the site. About 75% through the post is a paragraph which explains that the user needs to join a group to see the other categories. All other categories are protected by that group (at a minimum). The very last paragraph (for those who try scrolling straight to the bottom) includes bogus guidelines for joining a _different_ group. Membership of that group reveals one additional topic which tells them that they **really** need to go back and read the original. We also hand out a badge to everyone who has read the onboarding topic for staff to fall back on if necessary. The above approach has proven super effective and was the only thing which worked when onboarding volunteer makers during our COVID efforts. We went from manually onboarding a handful of people each day (with varying degrees of success) to automagically enrolling hundreds of people some days with far more consistent dissemination of our rules and processes. It’s one of those moments where Discourse has shone brightest in my ~8 or so years of working with it. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/universal-landing-topic/233854)._