# Opinions on "Login Required" Best Practices

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/opinions-on-login-required-best-practices/355525
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opinions-on-login-required-best-practices/355525 "2025-03-03T21:16:23Z")
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### Author: ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opinions-on-login-required-best-practices/355525/4 "2025-03-04T00:31:55Z")

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That is pretty cool. Didn’t know about this new one.

Has some extra benefits over

> [@Guest Gate Theme Component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-gate-theme-component/225107):
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> Hello wave This theme component is created from [Guest Gate (Sign Up Popup Plugin)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/guest-gate-sign-up-popup-plugin/56625/). It can lock topics for anon visitors with a modal and force them to Sign Up or Login. The component can be use for an alert modal, encouraging visitors to sign up but allowing them to close the modal (for this, leave the dismissable false setting unchecked). Options include changing the number of topics that can be viewed before the modal is displayed. Tip: If you use the …

But imagine you could use both maybe in some form. For gated and non gated topics

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