Techno Fear No. 5623.735.... and a bit.

For quite a while now I was able to nip onto NMS Forums for a quick look without having to log in (having, say, logged off previously and not done the 'remember me' thing), but now it seems every time I want to have a quick 'butchers', I'm having to log in. I know we had changed things so that 'non-members' could check out forums, which is cool - but why am I having to log in to do the same? I don't necessarily want to log in every time I check the forums, so am I doing something wrong, or has something changed? TA.

Alan has stopped everyone seeing the forums, only forum members so I would think that if you want to see any content you would have to logon

Alan will confirm tho ;)

Has your browser been set to clear cookies?

Should be ok again, try it and let me know.

Been getting battered with spam registrations, i thought it was due to being open for non members, but, there was no significant decrease when closed to non members, the fight continues :lol:

I was about to say :clap::yes:

but I'll have to withdraw that thought!

I would think that having been open would mean it was in search engines whether it was still visible (in the short time you re-closed it) or went to a dead link if something found on google was clicked. I'm not in the slightest bit savvy about stuff like that though, but it was just a thought. f you ever looked at Who's online it was 80% internet spiders crawling into every corner of the forum, which I presume means things then show up in searches. Even though you closed it I'm thinking the internet search links were still there (just went to a 'not available' type page if clicked?) But I dunno. :idunno:

If you take this thread for instance as it’s a good one being so exact it does not show in Google, Bing, Yahooo.

The spiders haven't visited yet Stew.... :knife:

I take that back older threads like Robs picnic run comes up. But you'd have to be logged in to read right!


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Cheers Alan, got in to 'browse' no probs this time.
Thanks for the feedback folks - wasn't sure if it was just me being daft! :unsure:

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Originally Posted by Stewart

I take that back older threads like Robs picnic run comes up. But you'd have to be logged in to read right!

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Nope, you don't have to be logged in to view the forums as Elfman has mentioned