SocomCity

[Kirk Y]

Resource site for SOCOM News, Cheats, and Glitches.

http://www.socomcity.net

While the Portal can be viewed by Guests, to gain full access to the site you'll need to be logged in:

Username: vBoRG
Password: test

Comments and criticism, please and thanks.

[filburt1]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

While the Portal can be viewed by Guests, to gain full access to the site you'll need to be logged in

Very bad idea. Always let guests see your threads or you'll get registrants who just never post.

[Tony G]

Agreed with filburt, you're basically hiding the content of your site and nobody will hardly be curious to see what it is, rather see what it is and see if they are interested or not.

[Kirk Y]

Okay, I made the forum viewable to Guests as well.

Any idea as to how I can get rid of the Private message in the Last Post row, but keep Guests from viewing the actual threads?

[Zachery]

EAsy way? upgrade to 3.5
Hard way? Hack the funcitonlaity in.

[Kirk Y]

I'm using 3.5.0 RC3...

[Blindchild02]

wow, alot of forums there... lol

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by acidburn0520

I'm using 3.5.0 RC3...

Their are already permissions to do this then check the forum manager.

[Kirk Y]

Found it, thank you Zach.

[Tony G]

The portal is quite slow loading. Maybe need to ease up on the queries on that page.

As for your forum, there are two main problems.
-WAY too many forums. It will just intimidate new members, no idea where to post, too many places to post, will deter people joining up.
-Move all your What's going on junk to the bottom. You are just creating scroll for members to scroll down to the start of your forum list. You want to make it as easy as possible for members to view forums and post etc, so that stuff at the top doesn't help and it makes it look like who's online and statistics are more important than posting and viewing your forums.