Since when was sign in required to view posts?

[frankthedm]

Since when was sign in required to view posts?

 

[Walking Dad]

Not able to open threads while logged out

Currently I have to be logged in to view any 'Play By Pos Games' thread, but have no problem viewing the 'Meta' section. Is this intentional?

It was no problem yesterday.

 

[IronWolf]

Currently I have to be logged in to view any 'Play By Pos Games' thread, but have no problem viewing the 'Meta' section. Is this intentional?

It was no problem yesterday.

Yep. Same here and for threads in the General forum and I assume others as well.

 

[Morrus]

It's a week-long data gathering experiment. We want to see how it affects various stats to give us a better idea of user behaviour.

 

[IronWolf]

Looks like FranktheDM started a thread near the same time. His has a response from Morrus:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/296642-since-when-sign-required-view-posts.html

 

[Walking Dad]

Could you then make an option to mark a subscribed thread as unread?

I usually open my subscribed threads in tabs after logging out. This way I can choose to answer later, if I need to re-check a book or something without them loosing their unread status.

 

[dvorak]

It's a week-long data gathering experiment. We want to see how it affects various stats to give us a better idea of user behaviour.

Silly me, I must have missed the announcement of the experiment. Now where exactly is it posted other than scrolling down to the Meta section?

Thank you

 

[Elephant]

It's a week-long data gathering experiment. We want to see how it affects various stats to give us a better idea of user behaviour.

Here's another vote for killing this experiment. I find it really annoying.

(and on a sidenote - strange that I stumbled on the experiment after weeks away from the site!)

 

[IronWolf]

It's only for a week for Morrus to gather some data. I'm actually surprised that so many people with established accounts don't browse the forums while logged in.

 

[chriton227]

I'm actually surprised that so many people with established accounts don't browse the forums while logged in.

For me it depends on where I am. If I'm on a public or business computer, I usually don't want to enter my credentials because I don't want them saved or grabbed by a key logger or anything of the sort. I also frequently read the forums on my phone while waiting to pick up one of my kids from their activities, it has problems saving the log in, and it's a pain to log in using the phone, especially if i use a password that has any non-alphanumeric characters.