deactivate

I am missing an option to deactivate and activate my forum. Reason/Use-Case: I want to run shell scripts via cron for backups: At the beginning of a mysqldump I want to deactivate the forum and afterwards I will reactivate it. So I get in case of a necessary restore of the database a clean...

Forums become very social and as social sites users aware about ability of deactivation their profiles or even deletion of their accounts like in the facebook. Most common reasons: User need to get off-line for long time and wants to show other users that they will not be acceptable in their...

There needs to be a way to deactivate users from the ACP, so they can't login and their accounts are useless. This is technically the "banned" state but without the "you have been banned" message. This is needed for retired or suspended accounts because all other "workarounds" do not provide an...