Ok gents, I have a big problem and I don't see a solution, or the reason it was done.

I'm currently upgrading someone from v1.3 to 2.05 and my client is using the private forum permissions as groups, and it seems that NewBB doesn't do that anymore, it instead does only individual users. Why was this change and is there a work around? This guy has 11,000 members, 5000 are premium members that have access to private forums based on their group setting. I can't go through and set these all by hand. HELP!!!!

Never mind. My search didn't pull up anything the first time, but I now see others have had the same issue.

Why was this changed, btw? Seems to me it makes way more sense to assign groups, rather than individuals.