[Snail]

No, I can't see the child boards. just the latest posts thingie

[DaBrain]

Nope, it's gone for me now. 

On SMF 1.1. or 2.0?

SMF 2.0 (http://staff.hard-light.net/common/smf2beta/)

I can't see the internal topic in "The Scroll of Atankharzim" there anymore.

[Snail]

That's because all recent posts are from over a year ago.

[Fury]

DaBrain said he could see topics in recent posts even when he was not logged in (browsing as guest) and in another browser too. Is this the same for you, Snail?

[Snail]

Yes, I can see these some of these things even when logged out.

[Fury]

That just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

[Goober5000]

It's worth noting that our permissions settings have some holes in them.  Even though SMF2 comes with a much better & more robust system, if you merely imported the permissions from here,  it's going to have the same problems.

When we officially transition to SMF2 (whenever that may be) I'd like to rebuild the permissions from scratch, using SMF2's handy dandy membergroup template strategy.  And then have two or three admins audit it before we go live, to prevent problems like an0n getting access to the staff forum.

[Fury]

This is not a permissions problem as indicated by Snail and DaBrain having the problem as guests too.

[Goober5000]

Guests have permission settings.

[Fury]

If the culprit is guest permissions, then all guests would be able to see topics from private boards. But that isn't the case.

[Aardwolf]

Wasn't it already determined that this had something to do with the meddling Goober did for Phoenix?

[Goober5000]

1) No.
2) Even if it had, the code for Phoenix was disabled now that Phoenix has (mostly) run its course.

[Snail]

The Phoenix code was the thing that was messing up the "new posts" function for the FSPort board I believe.

[Goober5000]

That was a different set of problems, and applied only to boards that were parents of that forum.