The private user forums are for game guilds. They need to be fairly secure, but not tightly secure. We want the guild masters to be able to administer their own forum with out admin action required. It's more important that it be simple and modular than it be highly secure.
As it stands now, the closest we can come to the functionality we had before is to have individual user groups for each forum that admins (which basically means I) have to manually add people to when they join a guild. The only alternative is to have them all be public, which defeats the purpose of having a guild forum.
Passwords allow the guild masters to decide who has access. Sure, there is occasional problem, but then they just ask for the password to be changed.
If we can't get this fixed, the forum owner (not me) is going to have to get his money back for the upgrade and switch to some other program. I know he doesn't want to do that, but we need to be able to host guild forums.
