Allow unregistered users to use the quick-reply box.

[luxotic]

Anyone figure out a way for guest / unregistered users to get the quick reply box instead of having to click the button

[DarthCoder]

yeah i need it too

[mmllc]

There's got to be a way, Daniweb Forums does it beautifully.

[davio33]

any updates?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by davio33

any updates?

What version of VB are you asking for, 3.x or 4.x?

[mmllc]

3.8 would be great, but 4.0 would work too, I find this to be a great feature that invites people to want to reply, holds their comment in limbo if they are not registered, as soon as they do the comment appears. It's true but people just don't comment on my site (as opposed to the many many visitors we get) because of the registration process; this would be a big change and great feature if the process were reversed somehow

I truthfully don't know how they did it; aside from hiring someone to script it.

[BirdOPrey5]

Oh that's different than what this thread was about- I coded a mod to allow guests to use quick reply. It doesn't make them register. For 3.8.

I will be releasing it later today, just have to write up some documentation. Will link it here.

Edit- It would seem once again I should have searched first before making a mod. There is one here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=197580

Mine's pretty different so I will still release it, since it's done- but it was the first thing that came up when I searched google for:
Guests can use quick reply site:vbulletin.org

[BirdOPrey5]

This is my mod: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=267690

[mmllc]

OK Bird. I'll keep looking for that particular mod or if you'd like to try and make the mod I'm referring to I think it would pay off for us all. I'll pay for someone to do it but at that point I wouldn't feel justified in sharing it for free (unless we all chip in which won't happen).


Anyway, consider my situation finding Dani Web, I forgot the exact conversation, but under normal circumstances I would never reply because I myself didn't want to go through the registration process to make a few word reply but this time I did want to reply and was enticed to more so than any other forum because of this mod; the page appeared to give me that ability to post without registering.

So, the best part of it all is, you take the time to write out your response, hit reply, then you are taken to a registration page that alerts you "your comment will appear after you register" or something and more times than not, the user will probably join the forum. Think about all the people that probably didn't join or add content to our forums because of their unwillingness to register despite their willingness to reply.

It's win/win for everyone: The people get their say, we get a new member, and new content.

And the way DaniWeb handles it is as if you can do just that, but wait one second, what's your name, email real quick, bingo, you have a new user, you have new content, not just someone that came in and saw your info and did nothing on your site (this is like 99% of my visitors, they just dont speak).

So I think even more so than letting guests reply, this proposed mod would be really great. But I won't steal your thunder on this mod but they are VERY similar so pardon my confusion.

Good work man.

Regards.