Forum Members/Guests

[Yupt]

in 2008 HxF set its record for number of online members at like, 800 something.

and now we have roughly 80 members on during peak with about 100 guests, can we not like, restrict guest privilages so they sign up and hopefully start posting/become a regular member..

[Mathew]

I think this was brought up months ago but I don't know if it was ever implemented. ClubHabbo for example only allow you to view a certain amount of threads a day and then you're forced to sign up. Would be an idea to do the same here :)

[Josh]

I don't agree with restricting guests to view the board (if that's what you're saying) but something could be done to hook those guests to registering. :S

[Meanies]

been brought up many times and every time the answer has been no

[Inseriousity.]

I don't really like the idea tbh. If they wanted to sign up, they would. You can get people to register without restricting their access.

[Calvin]

It's been brought up a few times as the others said but forcing them to sign up would only send them away. It's also annoying if a user's account is broken and they can't login or something.

[wixard]

I think they should restrict viewing from some forums

do you know the amount of people that stalk the forum? like lurk threads every day and don't post... there's loads if them

[Yupt]

I wasn't suggesting the restricting guest privileges in the correct answer, but I do feel something should be done to get them in.

[scott]

I don't think making people register to view the forum or posts will get more people to register but will stop the 'Guests' coming to have a look. I know if I went onto a forum and had to register before viewing things I would be put off. Being able to have a look around to see if you like the forum/community etc. I think is a good thing for the forum :)

[xxMATTGxx]

We shouldn't start forcing people to sign up to the forum, when they will probably never use it again if they are forced into doing something they didn't want to do in the first place. It is up to the user if they want to actually sign up onto the forum. Yes clubhabbo have the thread limit restriction, that does make people sign up so they can read as many threads as they choose to do so but does not mean they will start posting and stick around.

[wixard]

yeah but it might

[Nixt]

It would be interesting to see if ClubHabbo's membership sign ups benefited positively from their application of this function. If they did, we would possibly consider it's implementation but as far as we can see without such statistics it would do more harm than good.

[Storking]

Personally when i'm browsing a forum and it decides to change it so that guests need to sign up, it's a real deterrent and I don't use the forum anymore.. hffm for example.

Habbox is used by a lot of people who come on as guests and I think it shouldn't force them to sign up if they want to view threads

[FlyingJesus]

Correct me if I'm wrong but was that 800+ members online thing not actually at all accurate and down to some technical change or glitch that had happened at the time? I seem to recall a big deal having been made of it at one point. Personally I think activity isn't all that terrible right now anyway especially considering some of the more prominent members leaving for uni and such recently, and as I once pointed out with stats and all sorts there is no problem with the number of people signing up, only with the number of new members actually sticking around, so forcing people to sign up (which is offputting anyway) would solve nothing

[wixard]

well what do guests want... the people looking at the habbo sections or in need of help in like the technology section or something

i say restrict all of general.... what benefit do we get out of guests viewing any of that

[Alex3213]

No, it's fine as it is. I'm not even going to comment in detail apart from say that I would be put off. I have never registered to ClubHabbo and the guest thread restriction is a prime reason why. It makes me feel thatit will be a forum of restrictions, restrictions and more restrictions.

[Recursion]

Bad idea, when I browse a forum as a guest and see the whole "Yo, you gotta sign up to see more" thing, I never go back.

[Jamesy]

Never. The website should entice people in, not grab them by the squishy parts and drag them kicking and screaming. As others have said, it's off putting - furthermore a lot of guests are search engine spiders, bots and logged out regular users.

[nvrspk4]

Correct me if I'm wrong but was that 800+ members online thing not actually at all accurate and down to some technical change or glitch that had happened at the time? I seem to recall a big deal having been made of it at one point. Personally I think activity isn't all that terrible right now anyway especially considering some of the more prominent members leaving for uni and such recently, and as I once pointed out with stats and all sorts there is no problem with the number of people signing up, only with the number of new members actually sticking around, so forcing people to sign up (which is offputting anyway) would solve nothing

90% sure it actually happened.