Guests View First Post Only

Omniscient · 2026-01-18T19:53:45+00:00

I have added a plugin (vibe coded) that only displays the first post of a thread to guests. A few days ago I removed the restriction for guests to view threads but I did have in mind to take this next step. I find it's a more elegant solution than hiding content on each post but also allowing advertisers to get more views. If a guest wants to see replies (which they likely do for sales threads) then joining is just what they'll do. View HF in a Incognito Mode to see for yourself but it will look like this: https://i.imgur.com/GZpxOuV.png Please note we dropped from 300 registrations per day with required registration to just 100 registrations per day with guest viewing. In a few days I'll update this thread with what the new numbers look like. Thank you and enjoy. P.S. Going to be a big dev week, planning on getting things off the Roadmap.

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Mar 30, 2026 09:06 PM

I have disabled this and reverted to Guests being unable to view threads.

The bots are just out of control crawling HF. I tried this for about 10 weeks. Enough.

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