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Re: Ask to join a group - is that feature present? [message #13531 is a reply to message #13530] |
Thu, 16 October 2003 14:35 |
Ilia
Messages: 13241 Registered: January 2002
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This feature was not added, because the discussion regarding this feature lead to a conclusion that it is not necessary.
If a forum is private is not visible to the user (in most cases, unless visible permission is retained), so the user does not even know such a forum exists.
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Re: Odp: Ask to join a group - is that feature present? [message #13554 is a reply to message #13551] |
Fri, 17 October 2003 12:03 |
Ilia
Messages: 13241 Registered: January 2002
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There is a very good reason why to not show hidden forums and that is to prevent sometime annoying users from bothering the admins to give them access to resources they shouldn't have access to.
Having a forum to which person does not have access to but can see it's existance also creates a feeling of being left out on the part of the user.
On the backend side FUDforum does have begginings of this functionality (relavent sql fields) but for the reasons listed above that never materialized into the functionality that you want. That said, if you can eliviate my concerns regarding the above mentioned issues and perphaps show that there is interest on behalf of other users I would be willing to make such functionality possible.
FUDforum Core Developer
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