A bug or as designed pertaining Sub-Boards permissions

[Doug Heffernan]

Whenever you untick the Allowed Groups: option while modifying the main board with sub boards, the main board and all its sub-boards are hidden from view on forum list.

So far so good. However, subboards are still accessible through the url. Whereas the main board is not. You have to untick the group permissions for the sub-boards as well in order to prevent them from being accessible through the url.

Is this as designed? If so, it does not make much sense to me to hide them, but leaving them accessible through the url.   

[Arantor]

Always been that way. Board access is and has never been hierarchically applied - the sub-boards are not configured to refuse access, so they don't.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

It is a feature. One that I know has been around for a long long time.
I also know it's even been used that way on purpose by some.
Does it make sense? Yes and no. The basic idea is that you don't see what you can't access, and this is true here.
But then, you should normally be able to see what you can access - and this is not true here, because of how the boards are laid out by the admin.

[Doug Heffernan]

It is a feature. One that I know has been around for a long long time.
I also know it's even been used that way on purpose by some.
Does it make sense? Yes and no. The basic idea is that you don't see what you can't access, and this is true here.
But then, you should normally be able to see what you can access - and this is not true here, because of how the boards are laid out by the admin.

I guess it makes sense when you put it that way. Thank you for your reply. I will mark this as solved.

[Kindred]

It is purposeful and has been used to have "hidden but accessible boards"

Boards in which you can get to by link (or menu) but which do not show up in the boardindex