Allow me to clarify…
You don’t need to register on the lake side. The forums are set up this way… when a person registers they’re assigned to a permissions group based on if they register on the lake or river side of this site. We have two main permissions groups: lake members and river members. River members see the “shared forums” + any river forums. Lake members see the “shared forums” + and lake forums. If we didn’t assign members to groups as we do, everyone would see everything all the time and we’d have an enormous and cluttered list of forum categories.
Members can “switch” their groups and be re-assigned permissions to see lake info when they’re river members by navigating across that imaginary line in the sand between the two sides of the site or vice versa for river members. Follow me so far?
Non-members are automatically appended to a group respective to the side of the site they’re visiting at the time.
And here’s where it gets tricky and a bit annoying…
We list the top threads on our entrence page and they are listed “site wide.” Lake members see links for river info… but they can’t navigate to that info w/o first navigating to the river side of the site to have their group membership modified.
Makes your head hurt, don’t it?
It does mine. That’s why I have a fix coming, I have it planned to be installed this coming weekend if al goes well, that will eliminate this funky grouping issue as it relates to being able to navigate to one set of info or another. Everyone will be able to get to wherever they want, when they want… no more “access denied” messages.
The change should be seamless and not cause any of us any noticeable interruptions in service.
I hope this straightens things out a bit. Glad you asked?