Hi Guys,

 

So... about a year or so ago we upgraded our forum (finally!) from a very very old version of IPB (10 years old or so), to the latest. In the old version we had a forum that we call Purgatory. We would send people there if they got suspended from posting in the public area or for just being a dick, rather than outright banning them. To prevent people from seeing the content in Purgatory (and the sub-forums under it) we password protected it and made the password public, allowing just about anyone to opt-in to viewing the content in there if they wanted. This also prevented people who had not typed in the password from seeing that content in the activity feed (tho it had a different name in the old version). 

Now, after the upgrade I see no password option anywhere that I can see, and now everyone can see everything from that area in their activity feed. The politics and Religion sections are particularly problematic, and I need a way to hide that section from people that do not opt in somehow.... I do not care how that is done, it just needs to be done. 

Any ideas how we can accomplish that with the latest version of IPB?

Thanks

Dave

12 minutes ago, David Borneman said:

 

Now, after the upgrade I see no password option anywhere …

Still in the settings of a forum.

For “opt-in viewing” of forums, you could also consider using a closed club. 

Edited August 16, 20195 yr by opentype

That's interesting... I still do not see that. Ill start digging. Thanks!

Still not showing up for me. Perhaps I have a setting changed somewhere? Here is what I see...

 

Perhaps because its a category? (Just noticed that as I am posting this. Will research that, but still need it to cover this whole category)

Crap, ok sure enough, its because its a category. 

This gives me a way anyway... will just have to set it on all the sub-forums... but that will work. Thanks for the kick in the right direction.