Oh, that makes sense.

I have an admins-only section of my forum, and it seems that the administrators group is not an option when configuring privileges for a category. Is this a bug?

In the meantime, I created a "Site Administrators" group and can manually assign administrators to that group, which CAN be used when configuring privileges.

Kind of hard for me to test as an administrator lol. I can post regardless of settings. I guess it's time for a low-privilege account.

I will try that, thanks! I wasn't sure if privileges were inherited or overridden by the settings on parent categories.

I'm setting up a proof-of-concept NodeBB installation to replace a small Simple Machines Forum I run. (I'm not worried about importing because we don't have much content.)

I'm using categories and sub-categories. Is it possible to block posting in a category? For example, I don't want anyone to post a topic directly under "Member Forums", rather they'd go into the appropriate sub-category (like "General Discussion" or "Minecraft") first.

That looks pretty cool! Especially with the Minecraft integration plugin. Might be a good reason to move my gaming community off SMF to NodeBB.