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If you want to spend some 1:1 time with me via PMs, we can try to sort things out (using screenshots and stuff to make sure that your settings are exactly how they need to be to accomplish what you want to accomplish). Absolutely zero obligation to do so, just thought I'd offer if you were interested.

If you don't know where your security log is, it's in your admin panel, under the "Security" tab in the top right menu (first option). Any actions like changing board settings will 100% for sure be logged here, and there are filter options so you can specifically look for just "Board Log > Edits" or "Category Log > Edits".  If you do this, you can compare the changes you know for sure you made, versus the changes that set your board in a way you did not intend.





There are several possibilities here, since you mentioned you don't have anyone else sharing your living space or device, in no particular order:

1. Someone has specifically compromised your device. This is the least likely because if someone has compromised an entire device to enable them to 'share' your IP, it's far more likely they would commit much more troublesome acts such as stealing banking information or gaining access to more critical accounts, like email or credit cards, than just make some inconvenient changes to a single forum.

2. The settings are accurate to what you set them to, but the settings are not behaving in the manner you would expect. I don't know how likely this is, since if I recall correctly you've been using PB for some time, but there's a non-zero chance of this being the case so I'm including it to cover all bases. An indicator of this case being true would be is if a category or board does not behave in the manner you expect, but there are 0 logs in the "edit" filter of either category or board security logs; if this happens, that means the setting was there from the creation of that board or category.

3. Someone has access to your account from another device / IP. This would imply that someone was able to crack your password and gain access to your admin account. It's not impossible, even if you have a secure password, for it to be cracked. To err on the side of caution, changing your password both to your ProBoards account & your email associated with ProBoards would be a smart move.

The best way to determine for sure is to keep an eye on the security log: if anything else happens to your forum that is a confusing result, or not what you had intended to occur, check your security log ASAP and compare your current IP address (you can look it up somewhere like whatsmyip.com) with any recent actions**

** Note that you may also have a dynamic IP, so you can check past actions you KNOW you made for sure, to compare to the current IP. If they're the same, then your IP is static; if they're different, you have a dynamic IP, but any actions taken within the same time you are online in that moment should be the same IP (let me know if that line doesn't make sense).