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They're not.
Members area has never, is not, and will not be public.
DMs have never, are not, and will not be public.
Other very explicitly named areas that might exist have never, are not, and will not be public.
Everything else on the forum has always been public... and the only thing that changed earlier this year is that I blocked AI scrapers and all bots from even accessing the public... but I've undone that, to allow archiving to occur, because archiving involves bots.
I don't know what you thought happened, but it's certainly not a change from anything that has existed since forever on the site. The only thing is undoing a block only recently put in place to stop bots. If you posted a year ago and it wasn't in an explicitly private forum... then it was already public.
I just logged out and the private areas remain private, the public areas remain public.