NinjaBoard Countdown to launch: Day 9
Follow up:
Forums view in APLite
Forums view on NinjaBoard 0.5.3
The new labels makes it much easier to see how the permissions are setup on each forum.
The new sortables also helps ease the task of setting up your forums.
And we've stopped nesting "Categories" and "Forums" under "Board", and give both their own menu link instead.
You can set your own label colors and character length in the default settings. The current color setting is pictured below:
You can use any color format that's possible with CSS. We might add a color picker if there's time for it. An alternate setting pictured below:
Forums view with alternate label settings
On to edit screens, we've reworked most of the interface, and added the ability to pick your own icon.
Edit screen in Khepri
Edit screen in APLite
Edit screen on NinjaBoard 0.5.3
We're taking a break from blogging over the weekend, but no worries as we return on Monday. Make sure you don't miss Day 6 as we'll reveal more of the new template system (that lets you install NB templates through the core installer). And over the course of next week we'll let you download the RC to iron out the last few bugs.
If you missed Day 14, click here for some frontend eyecandy to look at in the meantime 
Have a great weekend!
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Like for VIP type of forums. The purpose of "private" is not a middle thing between registered and moderator, but as an alternate group to registered so it's easier to restrict read/view access to specific forums.
This acl system are leftovers from the original extension, and we'll most likely replace it with regular joomla groups for NinjaBoard 1.1.
Did that answer your question?
Your forum privileges setup seem to be very hierarchy based too. Guest, Registered, Moderator, Administrator. What if I want to add a group thats got reading/posting rights only on certain boards?
You can create a new Registered type, that's set as Private on a specific subforums of which you choose :)
You can also override what role a user got on a forum on a user per user level.
So first you set the general user role in the group, and are able to set a higher role on specific forums, and are able to override the user role on the user edit screen :)
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