Marco

Well, I had not any (3rd-party) mods installed, but it worked the way I described it. It was clearly possible to set something like that. I denied it for guests, validating, inactive / 0 post members and banned. I allowed it for admins, mods and active members. So it was like a per group option. And regardless of what the general setting for 'Browse the Active User list' was set to, admins were always allowed to view the online list by default, even if set to 'no'. That were independent from the different group settings. I am using IPB since 1.0 and were always satisfied and pleased. Today, I do not know the exact 1.x version anymore (could be 1.2 or 1.3). Too many years are gone. As said above, I never installed any (3rd-party) mods. I did several modifications myself, but I actually can not remember me to have changed anything in group permissions area. So I think it was in some way already there by default or the modifications were so very minor I do not remember me. ;) Nevertheless, it would be really nice if we were able to differentiate a bit more between guests and members and have admins and global mods to be protected (if wanted) from the general setting like it is possible in several other areas in IPB 3. Or even better have a simple per group setting. That is my wish for a future version of IPB. :) I do not need a (3rd-party) mod for it. I can easily modify it myself and tune it to my own special needs. But I think something like this should really be a IPB default option. That is why I posted it here ... Regards

Affects privacy setting: 'Allow users to browse the Active Users list?' Hello, I observed some strangeness with this setting. Set to 'yes', everybody can browse the online list. Set to 'no', nobody can browse the online list. I found that a bit too general / absolute. Well, I expected administrators and global moderators are 'protected' from this, but admins and global mods are also forbidden to view it. Having a global option or at least a per group setting to allow / disallow it for them would be nice. This was possible in IPB 1.x days and I found it very useful to have. I personally do not want guests (and spiders) to be able to access the online list. And I want a per group setting to allow or disallow a certain group to access the online list. Something similar was possible with IPB 1.x. But that seems not possible with IPB 3.x now. Do I overlook something? Regards