[Block] Guest Page View Limit

[Zetan]

Either more people will register.. or won't return
Not sure which yet. Has anybody found more people register on their site using Thurnocks snippit?

Actually, not to bring affense to Thurnok for making this or any people using this but... as a guest browsing some websites. it gets so annoying I just never return.

Brianjw

I have to agree with you there Brian.
However, I've set it so the Home Page is still available to guests.
It's set at 20 forum views, which is reasonable.. I may raise it to 30.
People find the information to a subject through a google search.

I've seen many guests viewing a thread on my site that is about a new forthcoming music release. They can still view threads by going through links and through the Recent Posts on the Home Page.

I'm keeping an eye on it... It's mainly an attempt to persuade habitual lurkers to register. If I find it is counter productive, then I will consider removing it.


ZTN

[Thurnok]

@Roarin
Sorry, it won't work that way currently. It's a string search compare so asterisks don't work as wildcards there.  I'll have to make a specific function to do it.  I'll look into that in the near future since it would seem a logical thing to have.

@Brian
Do you visit the same site a hundred times as a guest?  It would seem that if a site was worth visiting more than 20 or 30 times, you would register on it anyway.  Which is the main purpose of the snippet.

@Zetan
Yes, you have discovered the ultimate use of the snippet.  Since it only works where you allow the block to be "enabled" (technically "viewed", but the intent of course is for the block to be hidden from view, so "enabled"), it allows you to do exactly what you are doing with it.

So the best and obviously suggested method of use is to allow guests to always hit your homepage, but force them to register if they are interested enough in viewing your forums 20 or 30 times (or of course whatever the admin's desired number is).

In any case, it is definately usefull for weeding out the lurkers if your board has that particular problem.

[RoarinRow]

Cool, looking forward to the update.  I don't want to restrict the Googlebots and Spiders   :up:

[qwe3]

Cool, looking forward to the update.  I don't want to restrict the Googlebots and Spiders   :up:

Have noticed any increase in your rankings? 

[yrral]

I like this mod... very handy. Now there's no more lurker in my site heehe.. thanks!

[k_4_kelly]

thanks nice one

[domeen]

good script, very good  :up:

Question,

If Guest exceeds the max. page count, they must register, but the next day, the guests can view another 10 pages?

[domeen]

Is it possible to select more then 1 board were the block is enabled?

because on the frontpage I have forum posts, and now I only selected one board..

[Thurnok]

The limit doesn't refresh.  In otherwords, once they reach the limit and have to register, they cannot view the pages as guest anymore.  At least from that IP address, which is what it is based on.

The block can be enabled wherever you wish, limited only by TinyPortal's ability to display (or maybe a better word is enable) a block.  So it basically means with a little planning, and adjusting where your blocks can be displayed or not, allows you to make some pages accessable to a guest and others not (once they have reached their limit).

[wimvincken]

Thanks alot - i needed this 

Edit: Argghh !  something is wrong with the script.. when i test it its working fine, but it takes ages for it to send the guest to the registration page... it just sit there loading for a very very long time.. what can be the cause of this ? if i disable the script while the other computer is loading it loads instantly the second i disable the script.. 

I really needed this as well.

Perfect work and you made my day ... thanks,

Wim