Restrict access, commenting, or creating topics in a category

[alesdotio]

Hi @nitely! Thanks for the great software :star2:, really made my life much easier!

I am implementing a forum based on Spirit and was wondering if you had any plans of having restrictions on categories? I think it would make sense to be able to have categories with special rules as to who can see/access them, who can create topics and who can comment. This would allow you to have private categories for only a selected few, for example a "Moderators" category; or a "Announcements" category where only admins can create topics, but everyone can comment, etc.

If you already had some ideas on how you want to do this, let me know. I will be implementing this in my fork shortly and it would be cool if we can come up with a solution that can be merged in. I think using the django.contrib.auth groups would make the most sense in this case and I would add 3 M2M fields to Category. Something like:

• restrict_access
• restrict_create_topic
• restrict_create_comment

[henri-hulski]

:+1: I also need private categories. And thanks a lot for this beautiful forum.

[alesdotio]

I started working on these changes on my fork