Captive Landing Topic

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Hello there!

I’m currently working on a way to get information out to an entire forum full of folks in a way that isn’t obtrusive but anyone can see it.

Originally I was going to look into email, but that gets messy with permissions and things like that.

As an alternative, I’m wondering if there’s a way in Discourse to set up a required “landing thread” so that when people visit the forum, they’re brought automatically to a thread, and then from there, they can get to wherever they want to go throughout the forums.

Thank so much for the help!

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These statements conflict.

If you have important information to disseminate have you considered using a banner? Intercepting inbound links, and directing users elsewhere is really bad juju.

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If you have to capture information for new users, use the User Custom Fields, so they appear in the login form.

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Can you just pin a topic?

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Yes, pin a topic as a banner would be my recommendation. That way the content is visible on all pages and must be dismissed with the X at upper right.

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