Re: Registered users vs. Members on the "Who can view?" column

Posted by Hugo <Nabble> on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Registered-users-vs-Members-on-the-Who-can-view-column-tp4571176p4576107.html

Planet Jackson wrote

2.  Under who can view the forum, there are only 2 options:  everyone and members.  When I try to click on members to make it private, the choices under "who can create new topics" and "who can reply" jumps from "registered users" to "members" automatically.  It is not possible to change this back to "registered users".  I don't want to go through the trouble of adding members to my site right now.  Why can't I choose "registered users"?

Since only members can view the forum, how can a non-member be able to create a new topic or reply to a post? This doesn't make sense and we disable such options.

By reading your post, I assume you misunderstood the meaning of "registered user". For Nabble, a registered user is any user that has registered an email address on the Nabble website. This is not tied to a particular forum and has nothing to do with membership. So the People page can have at most three tabs: posters (any Nabble user who has left at least one message in the forum), members and administrators. If only members can view the forum, the posters tab doesn't make sense.