Perhaps a large announcement box at the top of every page would be best? I've seen this done on other forums when global announcements are necessary, like for scheduled downtime and the like.
Why would they do that? That makes too much sense. I had to find out from Reddit that I was restricted to this forum. Was in the middle of talking to people on the Mining subforum, but guess I won't be finishing those conversations anytime soon.
Would be better if they just didn't let people with less than a certain number of posts to start new topics/threads. Oh well
