Remove statistic information to increase registrations
 

Introduction:

I came up with this idea when I thought about "what discourages me from registering with a forum I don't know when the topic interests me?"

Ask yourself what you do when you are searching for a topic and find a forum.
Where do you look first? What is it that turns you away?

Right! You/I first check to see how many threads and posts are in this forum and then I check the stats for how many registered members there are.
If these numbers are to low for me, then I most likely don't even start to read in the forum.
Does this sound familiar to you? If it does this hack is for you!

What this hack does:

It removes the columns "threads" and "posts" (count) for guests but leaves them for members on FORUMHOME and FORUMDISPLAY.
Optional it removes the whole "what is going on" box.
This way you get rid of unimportant information for guests and let them focus on your content.
These information are only helpful anyway if you are the top dog in your niche and want to show of what you got. If you have a smaller forum these information will most likely discourage guests more then it would encourage them.


Installation:

Templates to edit: 6



In Template FORUMHOME find:



and replace it with:



find:



and replace it with:



In Template forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost



find:



and replace it with:



In Template forumhome_forumbit_level1_post



find:



and replace it with:



In Template forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost



find:



and replace it with:



In Template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post



find:



and replace it with:



In Template FORUMDISPLAY



find:



and replace it with:



OPTIONAL:



If you want the "What is going on" box to be removed as well:



In Template FORUMHOME find:



and replace it with:



find:



and replace it with:



If you install this hack, please mark it as installed. Thank you.

DEMO: http://www.patientenfragen.net

NOTE:

I have just installed this mod on my forum www.patientenfragen.net and can't yet say if it really increases the registration rate like I think it will. But we will see ;)

Feedback is welcome

StarBuG

thanks, I installed most of the code in my forum =)

I marked the remove part of the "what is going on" box as optional because I think that some admins still want these informations displayed.

Thanks for the hint ;)

Let me know how it works out for you

StarBuG

hmmmmmmmm

Such an informative post, get with the program!

Thanks for this, gonna install now, sounds like a top idea, much appreciated :)

EDIT:

ok trying to install but i do not have this code in my forumhome
Any thoughts please?

It's in line 39 & 40 of the standard FORUMHOME template of vB 3.6.7

A few lines under <!-- main -->

Me using the mns7 style, looks like this aint for me then, oh well, thanks anyway, still a great idea ;)

Installed.

Can this be made into a plug in or product so members dont have to edit so many templates themselfs? I do not mind doing the edits I actually rather do it myself but I know allot of people on here are going to pass this hack up due to having to edit templates....... Its scary for allot of people.

As a hack user/installer what I first look for is the description of the hack and the installation information how long how many edits how many uploaded files how many plug ins etc etc..... lol
You'll end up with more members installing this cool mod if you do.

Good work non the less keep it up thanks.

I also pass up MODS if you have to manually edit too many templates.