Is there any reason why...

They've been that way for some long time, so I guess it's not such a big deal.
Besides, I don't really think we were missing much by not being able to read them before. Some of the 2001-2003 stuff was an intersting read, though.

Sometime before the private forums could be viewed by regular members, they were are already open for guests to view. But either way, those forums should neither be viewable by guests nor viewable by regular members. Do you think perhaps it was hackers or something like that who did something that made the private forums viewable by the public? I also noticed that regular members are now able to post new threads in the Announcements Forum, as I saw a new thread in there that was started by a spam bot. But the thing is, only admins are supposed to be able to post new threads in the Announcements forum.

Maybe the permissions got screwed up when they had to reinstall the software.

I guess they are interesting reads, but the username and password to the ZC.com admin page are now public. Ah well.

Pineconn, talk to DN. He should be able to edit permissions or make me an Admin so I can.