We finally have new forum software that seems to be working. I've been testing this all day and have not found any bugs so far.
I have the permissions set so anyone finding this site can view all of the posts, however one must register to be able to create a new topic or reply to an existing post.
If anyone forgets their password they can send an email where they log in and a new password will be sent. The password can also be easily changed.
If anyone want to post something that only member can view, there can be forum topics that will be protected from view – that is only registered members can view those posts.
As before I am starting with three main categories and hopefully there will be many topics under these main categories. If you can think of more main categories let me know and I'll create them. Any registered user can create topics under these categories.
Please let me know if you find any bugs or problems.
It will be helpful to keep active posts in this forum as those posts will be found by search engines and that should attract new people to this site. 