A discussion on a modal window appearing on ruby-forum.com has commenced. hellekin expresses annoyance at the modal and inquires about its configurability. jomaxro identifies the plugin responsible, which is marked as broken and hasn’t been updated since 2017. riking suggests that the issue may be due to the “max_guest_topic_views” setting and criticizes the plugin as a bad idea. Mittineague defends the plugin, arguing that it doesn’t block access to content. riking reveals that they designed a version of the modal that was more unobtrusive, but it was deemed not aggressive enough.
So there’s this reboot of ruby-forum.com running Discourse, in its early phase. There are a lot of people using it to access the mailing list archives, and they get the modal, which annoys people a lot. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this modal before.
Is it configurable?
No, it’s a plugin or theme component.
Pretty sure it’s Guest Gate (Sign Up Popup Plugin) - which is marked as #plugin:broken-plugin, so there may be other issues on that site.
Thank you @jomaxro! I hope this will be fixed soon.
Doubtful, the author of that plugin hasn’t been seen since mid-2017.
I meant, it will be fixed soon on ruby-forum 
Setting “max_guest_topic_views” to 1 (the default) is probably causing it to instantly show for everyone.
I also think that plugin’s just plain a bad idea, so /shrug
The CTA will show for anonymous visitors near the bottom of topics without blocking access to content.
Yeah, I designed that version 
Also designed it to not show until 24 hrs after your first visit, but people thought that wasn’t aggressive enough.