private forums and the foundry
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should threads from the private forums be showing up in the foundry for everyone? maybe it’s not possible to hide the private threads from people who don’t have access, but could they be marked somehow? right now, i see entries in the “recent comments” box like “doilies by Diane Heeney in Bonnets, Babushkas and Beanies”, so it seems like maybe something quirky and interesting, but clicking the links only give me a standard error: “Access denied. You are not authorized to access this page.” i assume it’s because this thread is in the ladies’ forum and i’m not a lady.
i guess my first choice for solutions would be to automatically hide threads when i don’t have access. next best would be marking the listings in some way as private so i wouldn’t expect the link to work for me. at least the access denied message could be improved.
i guess my first choice for solutions would be to automatically hide threads when i don’t have access. next best would be marking the listings in some way as private so i wouldn’t expect the link to work for me. at least the access denied message could be improved.
We are attempting to make the Ladies Forum more visible and accessible by allowing the comments to show up in the Foundry. If you click on one, you will get the Access Denied message and your computer will self-destruct in 15 seconds. Just kidding. But the idea was that there are quite a few new members, and we’d like them to know about our special folder for ladies only. We’ll tweak later.
What does the “access denied” message actually say? Does it instruct ladies to register who are not members? I like this solution myself. It makes us seem mysterious. 8-) Or maybe…just “quirky and interesting.”
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Unfortunately, right now the access denied is just the generic one you get if you try to view any site page that you don’t have permissions for. It’s on the do list to make it do something smarter.
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