Today page for Subscribers

[kgraeme]

After subscribing, I've noticed that the Today page has the same sales pitch to get people to become subscribers. Any chance that can come off for people who do subscribe?

 

[narzy]

its the same template for everyone so I dont think so

 

[Paulson]

You have to remember, the subscriber and regular forums are all running off of the same database, and while zuni can get away with doing some modifications such as PM limits and other stuff, the general design of the database I'm sure makes it so that whatever's on most of the forum pages can't be custom for one specific group...

Don't know if that made any sense or not, but I don't think there's anything that could be done, and if there was, I don't know how willing Zuni would be to fix such a minor inconvienience

 

[kgraeme]

At its most basic, it's extremely simple in concept.

<cfif subscriber is true>
Thank them for being a subscriber.
<cfelse>
Make a sales pitch.
</cfif>

The only trick I see is that the FuseTalk administration probably wasn't intended to deal with subscribers vs. non-subscribers, so the admin interface which creates the Today page messages probably doesn't have a checkbox to indicate who the message is for. To accomodate that you would need to add a field to the today page message in the database that has a flag, then check for that flag. You could have it be a three-way switch for freeloaders, subscribers and everyone.

The issue with this is server load due to more conditional logic. Without running some tests, I don't know what that load difference would be. I don't think it would be too much since it is limited to the Today page instead of adding this kind of logic to every topic page.

I am happy to support Anandtech with my subscription, the tech forums have saved me more than that in support time. However, the speed difference isn't that big of a deal. It would just be nice to get rid of some annoying marketing aimed at other people, and maybe get a thank you. Escpecially since I still haven't been able to find the swimming pool and cabana that was part of the sales pitch.

 

[Jason Clark]

This is not a big deal at all . It's just some text. We dont want to start adding custom code all over hte place as thats a recipe for disaster when it comes to updating the fusetalk product to the latest build.

Thanks.