Modal pop-up for first time visitor

[trudat (Ted Strauss)]

This is a feature suggestion, to have a modal pop-up that displays only for first time visitors to a Discourse site. The modal can be filled with HTML or other content types. The purpose is to say hello to first time visitors and encourage them to register.

This would most likely be implemented as a plug-in, called First time visitor.

Does something like this already exist?

Here are the settings I imagine the plug-in providing. I’d be glad to make a mock up, but I think we all know what a modal looks like.

Plug-in settings

• Activate modal: on / off
• Time delay before modal appears: ___ seconds
• Modal appears on vertical scroll to: ___ % page
• Modal content type: Markdown / HTML / Onebox / Default signup CTA
  • Enter content here
• Display link to signup: on / off
• Display link to a post: ____ [post id]
• Display First time visitor on an anonymous user’s first ___ visits.

[ron_jeremy]

Would the signup cta do the trick? In the Discourse Admin Settings section, search for the following: enable signupI don’t know if you can customize it, but it does the trick as is.

[tomwrench]

You could always try an external service, such as https://getsitecontrol.com/ ? Here you can choose the type of window, who it targets etc.

I’ve been looking at this for my Discourse instance I’m currently working on.

[Mittineague]

Only curious.

How to you differentiate between a “first time visitor” and a member that hasn’t logged in?

There is already the “Log In” modal for when a non-logged-in visitor wants to post a Reply.
There is already the “Hey there!” that shows at topic bottom when a non-logged-in visitor has read a few topics.

Would those not be enough?

[trudat (Ted Strauss)]

@tomwrench

You could always try an external service, such as https://getsitecontrol.com/ ?

This looks very promising. I may end up using this. Thanks

@ron_jeremy

Would the signup cta do the trick? In the Discourse Admin Settings section, search for the following:

enable signup

That accomplishes the most basic use case. If someone were to implement the proposed functionality, that would probably be the right place to start.

@Mittineague

How to you differentiate between a “first time visitor” and a member that hasn’t logged in?

I’m assuming that Discourse is logging IP addresses and/or storing visit counts in a browser cookie. That info can be used to flag an anonymous user’s IP as belonging to a registered user. I’m assuming -optimistically- that Discourse’s API makes it easy to check this.

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@trudat

Does something like this already exist?

Yep, it does:

Signup call-to-action when you read for a while

When people browse around reading topics anonymously, they aren’t getting their read time saved to the server, and their visits don’t count for promotion. But most importantly, the last read position doesn’t get saved, so they don’t enter where they left off. I want to let these people know what they’re missing out on. When logged in as anon, instead of throwing out post read time data, save it to localStorage. Save visits to localStorage too (one per calendar day). On the second visit if rea…

[Jody (Jody Gates)]

Ich fühle mich schlecht, einen so alten Beitrag wiederzubeleben, aber ich sehe nicht viel anderes, das ihn behandelt … was höchstwahrscheinlich bedeutet, dass er nicht existiert oder nie stattgefunden hat. Meine Variante kommt von einem meiner Teams, das ein modales Popup haben möchte, wenn Benutzer diese neue Kategorie zum ersten Mal besuchen … im Grunde, um sie anzuheften, mit einem Twist.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Jody, das ist mit einem benutzerdefinierten Plugin machbar (da wir serverseitigen Zustand benötigen würden). Wenn Sie möchten, dass wir die Arbeit anbieten, senden Sie eine E-Mail an team.