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 available and indexed by search engines

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 Contribute > Feature request topic to join them up:

Topic		Replies	Views
Anonymous visitors can now browse public chat channels on new sites by default Announcements chat	3	185	October 28, 2026
Can I make chat visible for users who aren't logged in? Product Support chat	1	679	March 21, 2023
Allow visitors and search engines to see chat channels Feature chat	16	1415	July 14, 2024
Does anyone use chat on their site? Product Support chat	25	730	July 9, 2024
Is anonymous posting possible? Product Support	21	10085	January 16, 2021

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

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