Pre Register on Unlaunched forums

[CaskSmuggler]

Hello all

I don't want to launch our forums until we have enough 'subscribers' or awaiting visitors ready to populate it and keep it active. So in the mean time we're creating a landing page for our website, but keeping our forums out of the public access.

I'm wondering if it'd be possible to capture any visitors and enable them to 'pre sign-up' or 'pre register' for the forums, ready for when we launch. This way enabling members to build up, and having a list of people to automatically notify that we've launched.

[thetechgenius]

You could launch your forum so people can register, but disable Registered Memebers access to all areas of the forum. So they will be able to register, but they wont be able to see or access anything else, until you give the Registered Members usergroup access again via AdminCP.

[TheLastSuperman]

Or let them register from facebook only while new registrations are closed. I'd also hide any forums to "unregistered/not logged in" usergroup and then in the default registered usergroups hide all the forums and content until you want to officially open the site.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...acebookconnect

This will also allow you to heavily publicize the launch of the site via facebook as well which certainly won't hurt a thing .