Would it be possible to set category permission so everyone can see the category and introduction post but not the other posts. After reading the intro they can for example subscribe and see the other posts.
Probably not the reason @Miro wants it, but I could see that being very useful for the discussion of anything that makes people feel squeamish. The introductory post about the category can warn you away from the content inside, if it is something that will not sit well with you.
If want someone to subscribe to the forums category, how he will know what is inside if he can’t even see the category or titles of the posts.
For example I have instructions how to do something , they are free. 20% people can use it but remaining 80% because of complexity can not. I do not want to waste time with detailed explanation and specific questions. Who needs such level can subscribe and get it.
SMF forum has “view only boards mod” where everybody can see category and post titles then they decide if they want to subscribe. Only in that section support for particular product is provided.
This has come up before here and here. Other platforms address it with category visibilty settings for
Public - can see category and topics
Private - can see category only (including description but not topics)
Hidden - only group members see category and topics
Adding a Private visibilty setting would help people know a category exists, how to join via category description, etc. Would be nice not to have to use group membership to make categories suddenly appear after joining.
Showing titles of posts but not content would be trickier.
I still do not get this use case at all, and almost nobody (that can present a rational, coherent story about it to me) is asking for it.
So like… a porn category, or something? I really do not get this at all and never have.
The cited topics are incredibly weak, @scombs. Not a reflection on you, just that I honestly find the arguments for this “need” to be extraordinarily thin. Color me utterly unconvinced. Where is the killer app here? Heck where is the modestly convincing app?
Public category for an organization that have private subcategories for committees.
Private category like for discussion group/email list.
General public users wont see these categories at at all so site admins have to use things like pinned topics, group page, etc.
Even users who are members of a private category but are not logged in won’t see that category. So users get lost when they come back to the site and can’t find their private category.
It would be nice to have category view and menu options to surface the categories to users with a reminder to login or instructions to join.
So you like everyone (even guests) to aware of the existence of lounge category and procedures to join and participate in it by displaying the category name (and pinned topic) in categories list. I am right?
My site has all private categories because the subject matter varies widely. I uses one public category with topics to direct users to the group page for sign up.
Above script is working on your Discourse and displaying the link properly. The problem is when you click the link it gives page doesn’t exist error. Right?
In this script user can’t view the category actually. That’s why it return the error. So in the url field you must give any existing public topic url (or any public url) which is describing about that category.
Almost. You can create a group that allows people to join of their own accord and set the category so that only group members can join. The won’t be able to read the category introduction, though, so you’d need to create a topic for that somewhere else that describes the category and how to join the group.