the board version is not important, the codes are the same, only the language phrases are changed...

for your suggestion, a forum can have different settings, like a category, and a language, that would mean two new fields in the table, and a new system for classing the categories... this is not complicated, but long. may take one or two hours just to set everything to work as a pattern...

it's normal, the more you need features, the more you will have codes to deal with it, so the time to work that out too...

the quickest and most efficient way to deal with things is to deal with the language at first... categories or language it's the same way to filter things... but in my opinion it's illogical to apply a category filter for the user management...

logical reason is that your users visit your board for the entire package, not for a single kind of discussions... and if their goal is to visit only one part of your forum, you will see these users have bookmarked the specific forum... they can browse between forums, or simply not... but giving more features to users will mean you give them too much power... if they don't like the forum display, they just have to suggest changes, instead of cutting everything from the display. (it's my way to see it) anyway, if they don't like the content of your site, they will not come back, si filtering too much is useless.

anyway, users always can disable a forum category by clicking the 'collapse' feature... no need to do more i think... but you are the client, the client have all rights(if he pays)!

btw, filtering by language is good when you have different forums, because you can add more content for each languages without flooding your users...

ok, fix your ideas on how and what you really want... all features are possible... when you'Re ready, i can evaluate on what is the best thing for you... my suggestion is good, but i really need to be sure before starting to code... email me to have some more details, because here is for suggestions and requests, not dealing for contracts...

nexia@acmsoft.com