Modal pop-up for first time visitor

[trudat (Ted Strauss)]

@tomwrench

You could always try an external service, such as https://getsitecontrol.com/ ?

This looks very promising. I may end up using this. Thanks

@ron_jeremy

Would the signup cta do the trick? In the Discourse Admin Settings section, search for the following:

enable signup

That accomplishes the most basic use case. If someone were to implement the proposed functionality, that would probably be the right place to start.

@Mittineague

How to you differentiate between a “first time visitor” and a member that hasn’t logged in?

I’m assuming that Discourse is logging IP addresses and/or storing visit counts in a browser cookie. That info can be used to flag an anonymous user’s IP as belonging to a registered user. I’m assuming -optimistically- that Discourse’s API makes it easy to check this.