Or make a section called maintenance Announcements and only allow paying members to see it then post in there when there is a maintenance happening this way no hackers will see it
That would be completely ineffective. At any given time who knows how many accounts hackers have access to- not to mention the ones that actually have legitimate licenses. It only takes one to tweet something about upcoming downtime and the whole "customers only" forum is rendered utterly useless.
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