Originally Posted by Kayjey
I've been longing for another feature though... make it so people can log in and see their messages or any extra Forums they are allow to see, but not actually change anything (add posts, change profile, update this and that). So people would just be able to log in and read. In this restored archive it would mean they can virtually log in and see their old messages (nostalgia... hah...), but not do any changes to this 'dead' Forum. For now I just crippled the login code so login is impossible.


I have something like that running as an archival forum.

I run a copy of ubb on another server, which has some template alterations not to show postcount, titles etc, and a different set of permissions. userdata is copied over every hour, so any change they do make gets lost.

Any old topic that hasn't been used in the last x days is automaticly transfered over.

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