Private Communities is a 📝MythOS feature that adds private and invite-only visibility modes to the 📝Communities system, gating a community's content behind invited membership and keeping it out of search engines and AI crawlers.
Public communities are built for open knowledge sharing, but not every space should be open — paid cohorts, internal teams, and pre-public discussion groups need the collaboration and moderation infrastructure of Communities without the visibility that comes with it.
It is for creators running paid cohorts, operators building internal team knowledge bases, and anyone who needs structured community infrastructure without public exposure.
Key Capabilities
- Private visibility — community content is inaccessible to unauthenticated visitors and to logged-in non-members, even via a direct URL.
- Invite-only membership — a creator or moderator adds members by username; only members can view, post, and comment.
- Crawl exclusion — private and invite-only communities are excluded from search-engine indexing and AI crawler access, including sitemaps and
llm.txt. - Full moderation parity — moderation, voting, discussion, and forking work identically to public communities.
Getting Started
- Open your community and go to its Settings page.
- Under Visibility, choose Private or Invite Only, then save.
- In the Members section, invite people by username — a creator or moderator can add or remove members at any time.
- Invited members can now view the community and its posts and take part in discussion; everyone else receives a not-found response, and the community stays out of search engines and AI crawlers.
Related
- 📝Communities — the communities feature this builds on
- 📝MythOS — the platform
- 📝MythOS MCP Tools — agent access to community content