Allow non-members to browse the forum

lament

I think I remember seeing this somewhere, but now I can't find it.

I've set it up so nonmembers can browse the forum, but it's not showing any discussions (I have 2 test posts).

help?

edit: reading the wiki now.. derr...

ok i get it..

How this works: Leaving out the banned role makes your category and all discussions in that category unviewable to a non-member. Even if that forum is open for non-members, that banned member role still out-ranks applicants and non-members in the given hierarchy. So in other words, if the banned can’t view the category, then no one else below them can.

ChrisGwynne

Yeah I noticed this too. Banned = Guest basically.

Should be different IMO

Minisweeper

Well i suppose if you're making the forum open then you can change the name of the role banned. In the case where its a private forum, banned is much more applicable. Perhaps when you do make it open it should somehow automaticall alter or create a roll in order to allow it to actually be public without people having to change more settings?

jonezy

did you give the guest account permissions to view the categories?

Mark

There are some glitches with the public vs private forum setups. Lech wrote a document outlining how to make it happen on the wiki: http://lussumo.com/docs/doku.php?id=vanilla:administrators:privateforum Note that any glitches with regard to this public/private setup will be fixed in the next rev.

lament

well if you take away sign-in ability on the banned role, then there's no problem. everyone can browse the forum, even the banned people (which is fine), but the banned still can't sign in. unless they sign up with a new name?

Minisweeper

well that problem will always exist with banned people. Perhaps there could be a way to stop that.

Minisweeper

then again i suppose if they were determined it would be very difficult indeed.

lech

I just wrote the documentation to the best of my understanding :) I hope it does make sense though.