I've just been alerted to a bug with new user registrations not being able to see or use any forums. This has now been fixed, and I believe the few users affected have now been added to the appropriate groups.
If you're interested, basically I added a new profile field called "level", a basic thing in itself, but must have forgotten to enter a default value, or entered an erroneous value. The system didn't alert me of this. When new users registered, the forum crashed on reaching this value, which added the user, but then didn't quite get to the part where it adds the user to the members group. So any new users since then (which isn't many) weren't added to the group - and thus couldn't access anything at all.
Should now be fixed, but any problems, you can contact me via IRC (but won't be able to read this message until you log out of course...)
Sincerest apologies and I know a few people were having trouble entering the contest because of it.
If you're interested, basically I added a new profile field called "level", a basic thing in itself, but must have forgotten to enter a default value, or entered an erroneous value. The system didn't alert me of this. When new users registered, the forum crashed on reaching this value, which added the user, but then didn't quite get to the part where it adds the user to the members group. So any new users since then (which isn't many) weren't added to the group - and thus couldn't access anything at all.
Should now be fixed, but any problems, you can contact me via IRC (but won't be able to read this message until you log out of course...)
Sincerest apologies and I know a few people were having trouble entering the contest because of it.