Does anyone know if this is possible with the stock tools or if there is currently a plugin to acheive this?

The Goal:
The ability to select visibility of certain posts, for example an announcement, visible only to those in a specific group. Or a way to create categories only available to members of a specific group.

I am currently running v1.8.1 which I believe is the latest version? I will try you other solution once I get back to my home computer

The menu button at the top left in the mobile version does nothing. I've tried it on android and IOS both in chrome. Forum itself works fine but there is no access to any other features. Currently running in developer mode on a digital ocean server. Using persona theme.

Solution

Thanks to PitaJ I have the solution for anyone else who encounters this problem. Make sure the url in the conf.json is correct. Also make sure that the ip adress is prefixed with http://

Thank you for the tip. I actually remember reading to make sure and do that but I forgot. Unfortunatly after doing this I recieve this type error:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of null at setupConfigs (/home/riley/nodebb/src/start.js:96:68) at Object.start.start (/home/riley/nodebb/src/start.js:13:2) at Object.<anonymous> (/home/riley/nodebb/app.js:97:25) at Module._compile (module.js:577:32) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10) at Module.load (module.js:494:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3) at Module.runMain (module.js:611:10) at run (bootstrap_node.js:387:7)

I migrated my nodebb forum to a digital ocean droplet from my local machine. I made a backup of my mongodb database and transfered it to my droplet via ssh. Rebuilt and configured nodebb using that database. When I navigate to the forum with my browser (chrome and firefox) all of the data from my local machine is there. However the header is broken and there are no tools such as admin settings button. A notification box in the bottom right says I lost my connection and it is attempting to reconnect. But I can still navigate all of the categories just fine here is a screenshot

does anyone have experience migrating a nodebb forum that may be able to give me a direction to look as to where i might find a solution?