# Guest Can View Topic List Only
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-can-view-topic-list-only/22109
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 12, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-can-view-topic-list-only/22109 "2014-11-12T16:49:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Pierre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pierre)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-can-view-topic-list-only/22109/1 "2014-11-12T16:49:05Z")
The registered users only mode is good but thinking of going a different route.
Allow guests to view the list of topics and if they choose to read the full entry, they click and get a prompt to sign up.
Is this something hard to do?
Hope that makes sense.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-can-view-topic-list-only/22109/2 "2014-11-13T00:08:16Z")
Has been requested a few times (try searching) but not something we have any enthusiasm for, as we think this kind of bait-and-switch is unhealthy for the Internet and users.
Private sites, are of course supported..
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-can-view-topic-list-only/22109/3 "2014-11-13T02:13:24Z")
You can do this already by setting the security permissions on all categories so that “everyone” has no privileges, but Trust Level 0 has all privileges.
Note that all the content will be invisible to search engines though…
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### Author:  [@Pierre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pierre)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-can-view-topic-list-only/22109/4 "2014-11-13T03:43:18Z")
Might not have put in the correct terms since I only used guest view topc.
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### Author:  [@Pierre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pierre)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-can-view-topic-list-only/22109/5 "2014-11-13T03:43:32Z")
Thanks for your reply David. I’ll give it a try.