I just need clarification on private vs public. If a forum is public, anyone can see the name of the forum and its sub-forums whether they’re logged in or not but if you enter a forum you can ONLY see the topics if you’re logged in. So you have to be logged in to see the topics. If a forum is private, you can ONLY see the name of the forum and its sub-forums if you’re logged in. Is this right?

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 10 months ago]

Public – forum AND topics are visible to public

Private – Forum AND topics are visible to logged in users only

If you want more granularity than that use

Private groups

which would let you have the forum visible but not the topics