I was running a chat over the weekend and the turnout was pretty low. I was wondering if it would be possible to have a chat that anonymous readers (eg, not logged-in) can read but they would have to be logged in to post, I was thinking that might encourage more people to log in to participate.

I am looking for the exact same thing if anybody can shed some light on it it would be great… If anonymous users can participate in all the chart channels it will be great. In case they do any spam than the moderator should be able to block or mute their anonymous IP

Cross-linking the feature request topic to join them up: [image] Allow visitors and search engines to see chat channels feature All channels have a URL. The quality of the content is not worse than in the topics. I think it’s time to add a setting to make them publicly av…

Presumably a site could restrict (well-behaved) crawlers from accessing the chat with the robots.txt file, though I’m not sure how to update that on a Discourse hosted site. Maybe that should be a site setting.

Is it possible to have a chat that is accessible (read-only) to anonymous visitors?

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JammyDodger July 14, 2024, 3:48pm 3

Cross-linking the feature request topic to join them up:

Topic		Replies	Views
Can I make chat visible for users who aren't logged in? Support chat	2	584	March 21, 2023
Allow visitors and search engines to see chat channels Feature chat	16	1032	July 14, 2024
Does anyone use chat on their site? Support chat	25	428	July 9, 2024
Is anonymous posting possible? Support	21	9752	January 16, 2021
Understanding anonymous metrics on a login required site Data & reporting	6	1173	February 21, 2022

Is it possible to have a chat that is accessible (read-only) to anonymous visitors?

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