# Why are Groups all Visible?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-groups-all-visible/62661>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [May 13, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-groups-all-visible/62661 "2017-05-13T18:17:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![xiasummer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xiasummer/32/82790_2.png) [@xiasummer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiasummer)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2017, 6:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-are-groups-all-visible/62661/1 "2017-05-13T18:17:17Z")

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when I search a discourse with /groups I will see all the groups which I feel really confused.

Like this:

[Discourse Meta](http://meta.discourse.org/groups) will get

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/7/f77bcb22968eafc4f7c1ea59c5dcd4b03f9c57fc.png)

You see, I believe we should let a normal user only can see the groups that they can join( by requesting or just join)  
. What are all the other groups doing in this page.

**Plus, I do think the groups function can be really important.** So why is there not a button which can show

- all the groups I’m already in.

- all te groups that I can join.

Do we always have to see the groups by adding “/groups” ?

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P.S. I also feel quite odd to let anyone see all the users by just typing “[Discourse Meta](http://meta.discourse.org/users)”. Shouldn’t it be only the managers that can see such information?

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