UseBB Community

My employer requested that a forum be setup on a couple of our websites to interact and build credibility with our (potential) customers. We chose UseBB due to its relative simplicity over something big and comprehensive like phpBB or SMF.

However, we want guests to be able to view (but not necessarily post in?) the forums without being registered or logged in. Once I switched the setting to allow this, we now have a strange issue where only ONE forum shows up -- all other forums are inaccessible. As far as I can tell, there are no differences between the forum or category records in the database.

I've done some initial debug-walkthroughs (using die statements, as my employer doesn't believe in the value of a good remote debugger for some reason), but haven't yet spotted the problem. Any ideas whats going on here, or what else I can check at least?

What setting did you change? All guests can see the forums but are not able to post in by default, which is exactly what you want.

I know my co-worker, who did the initial forum setup but is no longer with the company, had changed some settings initially. I have no idea what settings he changed. But I can tell you what all the relevant settings are set to once I get to work... I'm already late.

Thanks for your rapid reply.. I could use another one soon!

These are the only settings that appear relevant, and as far as I can tell they're correct:

User Rights
Guests can access the board: Yes
Disable user registrations: No

Access Levels
Active topics: Guest

These are not the forum permissions, you need to edit a forum in order to see/set them. They should be fine as they are by default.

I guess that was what I was missing... I didn't realize notice the per-forum access levels before. Nice feature, too. Thanks for your help.