The discussion revolves around implementing “login required” best practices on a long-standing community site. oppman is experimenting with restricting anonymous access to encourage user sign-ups but is concerned about reduced views. ondrej suggests using the Gated Topics in Category theme component, which allows users to preview content before requiring login, helping attract sign-ups. oppman implements this solution and expresses gratitude. Heliosurge finds the feature useful and notes potential benefits over other gated content solutions, suggesting a combination of approaches could be effective.
I’m experimenting with making my site “login required” which will block anonymous access to content.
The site has been up for 8+ years and has a lot of content on it. I’m hoping this will attract people to login and continue to post.
I’m expecting a drop in views. Are there other problems that I should watch out for?
At the moment, I have all contact blocked. However, I may change my strategy to allow a single blog top to be viewable.
If users can’t see what the community is posting it may not attract them to sign up. Have you had a look at the Gated Topics in Category theme component? This allows the user to ‘preview’ the topic but has to signup to continue reading. However, as it is a theme component you can get around this via safe mode but I believe that unchecking the Enable safe mode site setting disables it for users.
@ondrej thank you for this advice. I did not know about Gated Topics in Category. I’ve implemented it based on your advice and I really like it.
Thank you for helping out a stranger like me. Appreciate it.
That is pretty cool. Didn’t know about this new one.
Has some extra benefits over
But imagine you could use both maybe in some form. For gated and non gated topics