Hi everyone :slight_smile: Is there an easy/quick way to shut down the forum or stop posting for a certain period of time? Other than changing all categories settings. Any help would be much appreciated!

Go to your https://your-site/admin/backups page and click the Enable read-only mode

Well, the easiest way is to setup your forum in read-only mode. This means that the site remains online and users can only read topics but can not interact (reply, open new topics, put Like etc).

Thanks Daniela :slight_smile: can you tell me how to do that?

You can also configure a global alert that tells users that the site is paused, so they stay quiet :wink:

[image] dax: Well, the easiest way is to setup your forum in read-only mode. This means that the site remains online and users can only read topics but can not interact (reply, open new topics, put Like etc). But (I’ve learned just now, when searching for similar posts on meta), its to be WARNED IN BIG WORDS, that once you enable this ‘Read-Only’ mode, and while experimenting or doing something, if you happen to close your (incognito) window tab, or log yourself out for any reason, even for 1 minute, THEN THERE IS NO WAY TO LOG YOU BACK IN!!

Yes there is, via the rails console: Discourse.disable_readonly_mode(Discourse::USER_READONLY_MODE_KEY)

Shut-down the forum / Turn-off posting

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Ahmed_Abdelbar (Ahmed Abdelbar) June 10, 2018, 10:51am 4

Nevermind! looked it up and found out.

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Shut-down the forum / Turn-off posting

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