Mick wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 9:20 am
On a single user board why are you so concerned with guests and bots?
Because guests and bots are exactly who I'm trying to exclude from accessing my private content?!
I'm just trying to understand whether there's any technical / real world difference between:
1. not adding any groups to my forums (other than administrators);
2. adding guests & bots and setting all their permissions to 'no';
3. disabling the board.
It seems like they'd all have the same result but I don't know for sure, that's why I'm asking.
I'm not objecting to disabling the board, but like anything it has pros and cons. It means I've permanently got a red banner on every page, and it takes an extra click to log in. It also gives me no option of a public-facing home page, or of creating an area that my partner could access.
It seems no more complicated to add only the administrators group to each forum, I just want to understand if this is technically more vulnerable to hackers etc.
BTW I won't be 'going public' with this board, it will contain personal documents, to-do lists, projects and general life admin stuff. There's probably cloud 'productivity' software that does the same thing, I just like the logical structure of the board, I'm familiar with it, and it's free.