With regards to having to check the box "Restrict Entry Viewing to Contacts and Blog and Moderators." on private blogs is to prevent members not on your contact / blog list from seeing your blog. I am assuming that making the blog private only prevents guests from viewing it, therefore the box to restrict entry.
Interesting. I run a private board so I did not even think about that. Thank you!
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I am not a fan at all of how vB did the blog and permission system. It is entirely too complicated and too rigid for my tastes.
I really have never used the blog system. I am just trying to help out 'djbaxter'. Now that I am looking into the code, I am less impressed. The permission system seems to be patched on top of being patched. My own software gets like that overtime too, so I am not going to harp on the vb developers.
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I did not consider secondary groups ... yea that could be an issue in some situations. I would suggest cloning the secondary user group(s) of your supermods so you can block both groups without affecting non supermods.
That was my first thinking to and I might come back to it. I am looking at creating another bit in the bitfield to handle supermod and if set then unmasking the 'private' bit in function "can_moderate_blog()". It is only a concept and I have not worked it all out.
Hey, thanks so much for the help. Hopefully I can return the favor
05-17-2013, 05:32 AM
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