I totally missed this plugin…
Thanks for the link.
I installed the plugin in my local machine. Some of the differences I could find was
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force-signin allows to force signin selectively on home page and/or topics page. This I could not find in guest-gate plugin
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In the guest-gate, the “x button disabled” setting only disables the close button in first popup. The user can still close the “Log in” popup and bypass the signin. Compared to this, in the force-signin, the “Allow user to close signin modal” do not allow the user to close the login modal by clicking outside the modal, and also hides the close button
Other features which are not present in force-signin plugin, but I am hoping to add these in future.’
- I do not show customized modal. Although I was hoping to customize the text.
- I was also hoping to add the topic tracking ( like quora… Do not force signin for few topics etc )
I agree that differences may be minor, and as the guest-gate plugin development started before, it already has users and more votes.
I am planning to use this plugin in two of my discourse sites after it is complete.
Do you feel that differences are minor, and having two plugins doing almost same job will confuse users?