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.

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?

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.

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

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