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Originally Posted by Pem
Do you not think that very off putting - I would never sign up to a forum until I had spent time looking around it.
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The problem is, when we used to have it that way, all we got was hardly anyone logging in, but load of guests browsing around and never posting.
Sometimes I feel I'd like to make it more 'public', but every time we've tried it, it flops and th site starts to die. I'm sure there are some who get put off registering because they cannot see the site, but it's far outweighed by the increased activity we get in the community by having it 'members only' so to speak. Despite this, we DO get quite a few new registrations.
As a sort of compromise, we did create a portal page which IS open to guests, and displays the most recent threads.
http://community.bowlandcentral.com.