# What happens to members accounts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happens-to-members-accounts/221550>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 21, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happens-to-members-accounts/221550 "2022-03-21T13:21:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-happens-to-members-accounts/221550/7 "2022-03-21T15:56:28Z")

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> [@MarieM](#):
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> So it sounds like if a member leaves our organisation, they will still have a Discourse account, but we can restrict them from viewing all our discussions in all of our categories?

That’s correct. Though if all your categories are limited by group and a user is not in any group anymore, then they will have a sad experience when they log in! You may want to also suspend their user accounts, unless you want to create one or more categories they are still allowed to access.

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