19-07-2005 00:49									#1
	Guests Viewing the Forums Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Dear Markos and Dan,

When I am not logged in and am viewing the forums only as a Guest, I can only see topics from the past 10 days. When I attempt to see older topics or topics buried more than a page deep in, for instance, the OT- I cannot search that.

While I can understand some rationale (bandwith) for not allowing Guests to view this information- could you at least pop up an explanation of why they cannot see this... as it is frustrating for people not familiar with the site... and it is also off-putting if someone is attempting to look something up.

Does anyone else here have a similar difficulty, or similar opinions?

-DC.

	19-07-2005 01:10									#2
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I would never view these boards without logging in. Its unatural to be skulking around like that.
I have nothing to hide,
I am proud to be a subscriber
and post on here with my head held high.

	19-07-2005 01:15									#3
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But people who want to look something up, but don't say- want to enter their password on someone elses' or a public computer- wouldn't login.

	19-07-2005 02:41									#4
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Or just people who are new to the site. And it's not like someone would try to be a guest to avoid showing up on the list on the main forum page - you can set that in your CP.

	19-07-2005 02:48									#5
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Or say you're just looking for some Civ information, like strategy info or somesuch? Many people actually do things like this ... certainly I do on other sites if Poly doesn't have the info I need, and I rarely log in anywhere (I have a login in CFC, I think, but that's it)...

	19-07-2005 02:51									#6
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A guest trying to look up actually useful information, won't be able to find it (I'm thinking mostly about newbies) because most of the threads are much more than 10 days old.

	19-07-2005 04:57									#7
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Guests are evil and steal our bandwidth!

	19-07-2005 05:23									#8
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I'm always logged in, but there couldn't be any harm in telling them why they can't see older posts.

	19-07-2005 05:41									#9
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telling them why could annoy them or... be an incentive for them to register.

	23-07-2005 06:45									#10
	Tired of ads?

Got to agree to the original post. Tell those people why they cant get acess to the older threads. I have been thinking it was some kind of error on apolytons side, for some month until i realized that i had to register to see older threads, Maybe there are more people which arent that familiar with computers and the internet to realize this at once.

	23-07-2005 07:27									#11
	Put an end to popups!

those people who aren't familar with "computers or the internet" don't come here.

	23-07-2005 10:15									#12
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I would think they would-

I for one couldn't figure out what was going on the first time this happened to me... and I 'know' apolyton.

	23-07-2005 20:14									#13
	Re: Guests Viewing the Forums Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud Does anyone else here have a similar difficulty, or similar opinions?

Yes. If I remember correctly I reported this deffect, ages ago, or maybe it was a similar behavour of the Apolyton Directory.

quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud While I can understand some rationale (bandwith) for not allowing Guests to view this information- could you at least pop up an explanation of why they cannot see this... as it is frustrating for people not familiar with the site... and it is also off-putting if someone is attempting to look something up.

Actual I cannot quite follow this bandwidth argument, because I don't think that it saves so much. Of course some recent numbers would be very helpful. But I don't see why it should save bandwidth to allow guests to click on all these buttons just for a reload. It would save more to remove all these nice buttons that are useless for guests anyway.

-Martin

	24-07-2005 15:17									#14
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the restrictions where created when our server could not hold as much people as today, in order to provide a better browsing experience for registered users

i'll see what can be done....

	24-07-2005 21:38									#15
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

make them register, you can talk up your ad sales with, "14,000 people registered on my site in the last 2 months" or "we've had 40,000 active users in the last 2 months."

It seems like everywhere you go on the internet these days, you have to login to see content that is kept hidden from everyone else. Poly need be no different.

	24-07-2005 21:50									#16
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Thanks for looking into it markos...

By the way- the new feature stating number of each post is great!

-DC.

	25-07-2005 09:56									#17
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Registration is easy enough, make 'em register and who knows, they might even post.

	25-07-2005 14:18									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Alex telling them why could annoy them or... be an incentive for them to register.

I'm surprised it isn't so already.

	01-08-2005 22:02									#19
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG i'll see what can be done....

Thanks Markos, now going to page 2, 3, 4 etc works. Is it purpose that displaying of threads older than the given period of time still doesn't work?

-Martin

	02-08-2005 07:09									#20
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Guests should adapt and become assimilated. Like humus