Yes, my question is why the management of Circvs Maximvs made their fora unaccessible unless the user logged in, thus locking out all unregistered people from even reading them.Rel said:(EDIT: I now think I misinterpreted your question which I think was aimed at the management not the userbase. So you are free to read what I wrote below from a users standpoint but I don't think it really addresses your question. I blame the lack of coffee in my system at present and promise to rectify that.)
My understanding is that both CM and EnWorld are run by the same people and many people are active on both sites, so that even if an admin did not answer there would be a user who knew why this was done. The fora over there used to be available to all, and I expect that is the default setting for the message board software. Thus, the point where it changed to logins-only reading had to have been a manual configuration setting - i.e. some admin over there said, for whatever reason, "Hey, it'd be cool if I could make it so only registered users who log in could read these fora" and flipped a setting. I don't think it's really cool, myself, and I was curious about why that decision was made. I know that there was some other new feature that went online about the same time last year that the fora became unaccessible to me, although I don't recall what that new feature was. I didn't think much about the new feature at the time since I didn't think it'd affect me. Since it was a pre-announced new feature, though, I had hoped there was some discussion among the users and admins at the time about why they now had to log in to read, thus some user there could tell me what that reason was.
Seems like either no-one knows why the login-only-read happened, though, or if they know no-one's saying.
Tough luck for me, but I'll live. Just so you know, though: it has cost Circvs Maximvs at least one potential subscriber.
