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Remove statistic information to increase registrations
Version: 1.00, by StarBuG StarBuG is offline
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Category: Forum Home Enhancements - Version: 3.6.7 Rating:
Released: 06-02-2007 Last Update: 06-10-2007 Installs: 33
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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:



Code:
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
      <td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
and replace it with:



Code:
       <if condition="$show['member']">
       <td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
       <td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
      </if>
find:



Code:
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
and replace it with:



Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
         <td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
        <else />
         <td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">4<else />3</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
        </if>
In Template forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost



find:



Code:
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
and replace it with:



Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
        <td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
    <else />
        <td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">4<else />3</if>">
    </if>
In Template forumhome_forumbit_level1_post



find:



Code:
<td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]</td>
        <td class="alt2">$forum[replycount]</td>
and replace it with:



Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
         <td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]</td>
             <td class="alt2">$forum[replycount]</td>
            </if>
In Template forumhome_forumbit_level2_nopost



find:



Code:
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">5<else />4</if>">
and replace it with:



Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
     <td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">5<else />4</if>">
    <else />
     <td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">3<else />2</if>">
    </if>
In Template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post



find:



Code:
<td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]</td>
    <td class="alt2">$forum[replycount]</td>
and replace it with:



Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
      <td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]</td>
      <td class="alt2">$forum[replycount]</td>
  </if>
In Template FORUMDISPLAY



find:



Code:
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
       <td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
and replace it with:



Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
       <td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
       <td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
      </if>
OPTIONAL:



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



In Template FORUMHOME find:



Code:
<!-- what's going on box -->
and replace it with:



Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
<!-- what's going on box -->
find:



Code:
<!-- end what's going on box -->
and replace it with:



Code:
<!-- end what's going on box -->
</if>
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

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  #22  
Old 06-10-2007, 11:11 PM
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Good idea!
now I'm getting problem with the Dark_vb2 style while hacking this mod
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Old 06-11-2007, 02:19 AM
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Quote:
In Template FORUMHOME find:


Code:
<!-- what's going on box -->

and replace it with:

Code:
<if condition="$show['member']">
<!-- what's going on box -->
The conditional appears to be missing its end tag (</if>)
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Old 06-11-2007, 05:21 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Smoothie View Post
The conditional appears to be missing its end tag (</if>)
It was not missing, I just forgot to move it to the optional part
I fixed it here and in the txt file.

Thx

StarBuG
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Old 06-17-2007, 02:39 AM
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I do the last optional part but it messes up the table.
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Then redo it.
Or get the original code back by restoring the template and do it again.

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11 Installs on this one.

Any feedback on the success so far?
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Maybe this could be useful to show thread information to registered users only?
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Old 09-17-2007, 03:21 PM
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i wanted to install but ill hold till i gett this ans
can i just directly jum to ur
"If you want the "What is going on" box to be removed as well:" part?

thanks. nice mod .
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Has this helped much?
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Nothing at all happened, I tried it on the vB default and no change at all. Everything is still there, anything I do wrong?
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