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Hello,

I would like to shield a section of my forum from guests. However, I still want the links to remain visible. I have currently adjusted the permissions to achieve this, but I would prefer a different approach. What I would like is for the links to the "hidden" topics to be clickable, and for guests to receive a registration request when they click on them. Currently, the topics are visible but not clickable.
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That's not what I meant. I'll try to be more clear :D

I want the private topics to be visible to guests and even clickable. But when a guest tries to open one of those topics they will be asked to register before they can read it. Is that possible?
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Oh i see then you need request an extension to be made. Don't think there is any at this time that does that
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Mannix_ wrote: Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:05 am Oh i see then you need request an extension to be made. Don't think there is any at this time that does that
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We use PHPBB extension Show First Post Only To Guest for that and more. Basically for guests, they see the topic and up to a number of characters of the first post of that topic, but no posts after the first. They must login as a registered user to see what everyone in that group sees. In this way, it urges guests to create an account, in the hopes that since they're already logged in, they'll ask or post feedback, which only registered users would typically have the privileges to do.

Number of characters to display:
Enter the number of characters to display for the first topic (default is 150). Setting the value to 0 disables this feature.

Each forum has it's own settings that can be adjusted to suit. PHPBB forum permissions override SFPOTG, so only the forums you already show to guests would be affected, i.e. adjusting SFPOTG settings for permissions restricted forums is wasted effort.

If you want to have some unrestricted days or weekends, you can disable and enable the extension. It's quite flexible that way.
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SQLnovice wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:17 am
Thanks for this! This does exactly what I was looking for. 150+ new members in less than 2 hours :D
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deninho32 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 7:24 am
SQLnovice wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 4:17 am
Thanks for this! This does exactly what I was looking for. 150+ new members in less than 2 hours :D
Those will be spambots, mostly. Can we get a link to your board?
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stevemaury wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:27 pm
deninho32 wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 7:24 am

Thanks for this! This does exactly what I was looking for. 150+ new members in less than 2 hours :D
Those will be spambots, mostly. Can we get a link to your board?
These are all real persons, I have to accept them before they are added to the board, it's football transfer time, so very busy. The link to my board is forum.negentiendertien.nl
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Have to say, how to register on there is really not very obvious. I only found it because I knew what the link should look like.
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You only need to register if you want to read the transferwindow section. 340 people managed to do it today so far :D. I use Milk theme and the registration links are standard with that theme I presume? Is there another way?

This is what the bottom of the transfertopic looks like. Pretty obvious right?

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From the link you posted there are icons on the right with no information as to what they are. You may well have had a lot of people register but what you don't know is how long it took them to do it through trial and error before they got the right option.
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Maybe I can add some text below the icons to make it clearer indeed. These icons come with Milk theme. I know that people tried to access one of the popular topics and found out they had to register. At least that's what they're claiming. The register link was right in front of them in this case.
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KevC wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2023 6:33 pm From the link you posted there are icons on the right with no information as to what they are. You may well have had a lot of people register but what you don't know is how long it took them to do it through trial and error before they got the right option.
This is better I think :)
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