Active Topics available for guests?

[xen]

Is there a way visitors / people not logged in can see the active topics option? Better yet, is there a way to list the active topics at the top of the forum?

[Gumboots]

You can allow unread posts for guests, which IMO is more useful anyway.

ACP > Load settings > Enable topic marking for guests

[ssl]

Better yet, is there a way to list the active topics at the top of the forum?

For this you can use this extension: https://github.com/IMC-GER/RecentTopics ... .2.15-pl18

[thecoalman]

Guests should be able to see unanswered and active topics if they have search permissions.

Active topics for sub forums can be enabled, viewforum.php?f=551 I would imagine you could make master category and stick all you forums in it, use a .htaccess rewrite so requests for index.php go that category/forum should work.

You can allow unread posts for guests, which IMO is more useful anyway.

ACP > Load settings > Enable topic marking for guests

I don't know if it's changed but years ago this could cause a lot of DB activity when enable server side topic marking is also enabled.