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Suki:
I have a mod that let you specify which members can see your topic, only those users and people with the proper permission can see your topic, I gotta upload it to github eventually, I keep forgetting it...
Arantor:
I'm always wary of permission-based topics that aren't implemented at the core, because any one of a number of mods will simply ignore such things - e.g. SimplePortal's recent posts will happily show even for those boards if configured that way, and of course RSS feeds and SSI won't deal with it by default either.
(It's actually how scary topic-level permissions are when implemented, and that's before the performance issues are taken into account)
Mister Chow:
--- Quote from: Arantor on July 14, 2012, 12:31:16 PM ---I'm always wary of permission-based topics that aren't implemented at the core, because any one of a number of mods will simply ignore such things - e.g. SimplePortal's recent posts will happily show even for those boards if configured that way, and of course RSS feeds and SSI won't deal with it by default either.
(It's actually how scary topic-level permissions are when implemented, and that's before the performance issues are taken into account)
--- End quote ---
no clue what you just said.
Arantor:
It was more a response to Suki: you can get and install a mod that allows topic-based privacy but there are plenty of other mods that won't know about it and will ignore those settings, meaning that it's almost worse than not having it in the first place.
On the flip side, SimpleDesk, as mentioned, was designed for having topic-level privacy built into it, meaning that any mods that follow SD's code will also inherit topic level privacy too - but it might be overkill for what you're after.
Suki:
Yes, this mod will only work with a basic SMF install, it covers rss and SSI too so any mod that uses ssi should be covered, I believe simpleportal does use ssi but of course I cannot cover mods that do direct queries.
As for performance, this mod does an extra query on every topic, it could be an issue on medium to large forums. It hasn't been tested a lot either.
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