I'd immagine the user would be in two groups:
1. Users (unpaid)
2. Paid Users

Paid forums would be available only to "paid users" group, and other forums would be open to everyone.

When a user's subscription is up, then they'd be removed from the "paid" group (possibly even added into an "expired" group so they'd see notices of some type)

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