I need a forum like it: 1. public area. everybody can read, registered users can write 2. restricted area. only registered users can read/write 3. restricted area 1. Only a group of users (group1) can read/write 3. restricted area 2. Another group of users (group2) can read/write 4. restricted area 3. Another group of users (group3) can read/write 5. restricted area 4. Only Mods can read/write The same user can be part of each group, for example: User Johnny88 is part of group2 and group3, James77 is part of group1 and group3. The other restricted areas should be invisible to the other users. And it should be easy to manage groups. Vbulletin can do that? Smf or Phpbb too? The groups at end will be something like 30 or 40.