Private Community, Approve Members to Join

So you can build categories with view-only privileges for users who with not registered or pending approval roles.

That’s how I went a about it, if you are in any role below registered you see only 2 sections, an about and a how to register. You also can only see product updates.  If you are registered, then you get to see customer interactions and questions.

Yeah, the users waiting for approval can also see other user profiles and profile fields which can be awkward if these users end up being banned/not approved…

In our view, the idea of making your community private is to prevent uncontrolled users to access any information on the site.

Any suggestions to solve this?

How are they finding other users.   A user not logged in doesn’t see user comments or posts or replies when configured properly.  
https://community.devo.com/

They only see posts by me in categories that I have designated the role of unregistered or waiting approval can see.
 

Hey ​@juan.delrio 

Well for instance, on your landing page you have a leaderboard preview where you see the top users, and on the full leaderboard (https://community.devo.com/leaderboard?period=alltime) you can just see any users and click on them to visit their profile.

Easy to remove and add to a custom page  :)
And we encourage users to be as anonymous as they feel they need to be.  But none of their conversations are exposed which is the meat. 

Yep agreed.

I think it works in your case, indeed. When users are aware of this and when their profile are quite empty of information the "risk” is minimal.

​@jvdc 👋,

Agree that the set up for private communities doesn’t make sense here. I’m discussing with our Product team how we can solve for this, either through the upcoming Personalisation functionality or by editing the configuration altogether. Thanks!

Yep, All profile fields except 2 are private for admins only.  Name and A bit about yourself are the only two fields viewable by members.