I love the HostBoard idea (a former UBB.C forum which allowed users to sign up and have their own virtual forum), where you can allow users to basically admin their own sections; thus giving the moderators a large ammount of access over the "groups" belonging to their forums...

But keep in mind, simple passwords work. They are easy for you guys to implement, easy for us manage, and all that is required.

We have had over 50 guild forums—without problem—for years under classic. Even the request for password changes is minimal. It's virtually a self-maintaining system that works.

While I appreciate all the nifty ideas you guys are tossing around, the requirement is for far less. Implementing the *simple* password option will allow me to reclaim the 50 or so guild forums which are now offline.

We don't want the guilds to leave our site to have their own forums as it destroys community to have them leave. (Not to mention the lost revenue form the AdSense ads I run that won't be getting clicked.)

Please take this as an official request to add simple password protection to the forums ala Classic, and let the administrators decide if this is sufficient for our needs.

Ian, I completely agree with you. Giving individual forum moderators control over their specific forums is exactly what I want to see.

This is the old code for password protected formums in UBB 6.3 by JoshPet. I don't know if it will help anyone, but I save everything and I've been using threads since Classic.
I repeat, this is an ollllld mod, do NOT use this out of the box on a 7.x threads install, it's for info and tinkering purposes only.

Ah. Very nice, thank you,