I'm going to think about the password issue, I fully support no passwords in emails when it comes to things like banks or corporate email systems, but web discussion forums barely need passwords to be honest- unless someone is a mod or admin I personally wouldn't lose sleep over a password sent by email.

Would it be possible to make the make the registration box hower in a fixed position on top of the page so that it has a fixed position on the screen if if the users scrolls. I think that might give a much higher registration rate as the quick registration would be right there whenever someone reads something they want to reply to. (especially so when viewing a thread.)

Thanks BOP, I am going to try it with the regular registration off. Since the reg box will show up on every page in my setup, a registration link or button seems redundant.

I have styled using the stylevars, the registration box to something more suitable to my dark theme. (you can see it in my profile here)

But I noticed the username box is white when on a page, but it goes black when one starts to type in it. Of course the text font stays black, but you cant read it then.

I looked in the xml and stylevars bat cant find where to fix that.

And I am sorry for so many questions...

But, I am wondering if when the user account is created, if the account settings will follow the admin acp default registration options that are preset?

Great little mod. If you're taking feature requests, I have an idea. Feel free to ignore.

What if this appeared at the bottom of a thread or article under the reply box? That way, people who wanted to reply to a thread could enter their reply and register quickly at the same time. Presumably the reply would have to remain in the mod queue or something until the person logged in again.

I think that would increase registration and thread participation.

That should be possible now with CSS... Making the main DIV and absolute position on the page. I'm not a CSS expert but it should all be doable via additional.css.

Does it work right in your regular registration form? You may need to look in register.css for the code that controls the box after typing has begun.

Yes it should.

I like the idea of showing it to people who try to reply, but holding a reply until they register would be a pretty major change- wouldn't hod my breath for that but maybe one day. :up:

Just wanted to say that I have been giving this a nice battery of tests, and I quite like it!

Still monitoring the spam thing, but so far none have used it.

Still havent figured out the username box background change on entry, checked out register.css, but all that has is a few short snippets for the check/x image and popup backgrounds. Nothing in there for the entry field box.
(edit to add: should I add a css entry for setting the background?)
(edit again again: yes, it works properly in the regular registration form. Just tested.)

But I do like how this works and just use a usergroup with limited priv for the new member group.

(edit also to add: I implemented the additional css to hide the time area. Like that and for me it prevents user confusion when it shows just some city, and in the end their time zone is set properly anyway, so they dont notice it missing)

And finally for now, edit to add:

I think I figured out how the background changes in the username input box....

register.css
The icon is overwriting the backgrouncd css for the input box. And the transparency of the icon png bleeds into the background.

Let me check my regular registration page to see if that has been happening. Bet it has been happening too, kinda think I didnt test it like I thought.

OK, I changed the snippet above, with the snippet below,...and it fixed it. :)

This information should be useful for other people too...