'Guests' and 'hidden users' on the forum
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'Guests' and 'hidden users' on the forum
What are the 'functions' of the guests/hidden users on the forum? Why are they there? Who are they? What does their registration involve etc? Just curious really. Ta muchly.
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I suspect that there has to be a certain amount of 'guesswork' by the forum software about "Guests", this will be based on seeing someone access the site who has not (yet) logged in some previous amountof time. Also if a member fails to logout, it may well log them out after a period of time, so that continued reading after a period of inactivity my then cause them to appear as a "Guest". We all will appear as a "Guest" after accessing the website but before logging in.
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Re: 'Guests' and 'hidden users' on the forum
I've been reading as a guest and logged in to post this. I will now log out but may continue reading for a minute or two.cj wrote:What are the 'functions' of the guests/hidden users on the forum? Why are they there? Who are they? What does their registration involve etc? Just curious really. Ta muchly.
Perhaps others do the same.
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