There are two types of private forums. I can get the one that reads allowed member list to work by not the one that says members only. What am I missing?
From your 2 posts, it doesn't seem that you're missing anything; both aoptions sound like they're working as they should for you.
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My forum has a private test forum. If you are logged in and it is private, any one can read or post. If it is private list, only members can see and post.
if you are logged in then you are a member, so by definition you can post and read a private members only forum, that is what member means. if it is an allowed list forum then you must be added manually to the list to be able to post and read in that forum, so they are both working how they should, if you are not logged in then you can't read any type of private forum member or list.