Plugin Request - Force Registration
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Ahhh! That is one feature of forums I find super-annoying!
But anyway, my vote would be for Cookie.
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Mmmm
Cookies
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The thing is, it's nearly pointless to go to great lengths to stop users from reading your content. You want the Googlebot to be able to scrape your content, instead of your paywall, or in the case of client-side overlays, any reasonably competent client-side dev would just locate the element in DOM and delete it
But I suppose the thing is over 95% of the population wouldn't even go as far as to clear their cookies, so something simple like cookies would actually work facepalm
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@julian said:
I suppose the thing is over 95% of the population wouldn't even go as far as to clear their cookies
Me too. I wouldn't clear cookies, I'd just press
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I'm also suggesting a widget.
Maybe a widget-plugin that adds a template to hide until a specific amount of topics got visited and to provide the amount for the widget-contents (taking care of uniqueness).You've already read 16 different topics. Wouldn't you mind to register?
Maybe just a guest-statistics plugin that collects (and provides to templates) some information like that for each single guest.
- different topics
- time on board
- clicks
- ...
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@julian we need more security
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Cookies with a redirect.
If the user can't be bothered to register, then they probably can't be bothered to clear their cookies.
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protip
How about a giant sidebar ad with a message that says "Sign in to remove this ad, registration is free!"
Anon users rack in some extra $ and more people end up signing up. Win-win
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What if its a giant "I
NodeBB" banner then?
