View threads but not view content: disallows viewing thread in the New posts list.

[Mr Lucky]

Affected version

2.2

If a permission allows viewing of threads, but not viewing of content, there users sees the threads as expected in the forum view thread list.

However they are unable to see the new posts list.

You would expect it to be the same as forum view, ie they would be able to see the list but not the content.

 

[JamesBrown]

Yes, if they have permission to view threads, they should see them in new posts, I cannot imagine that it was designed that way, so yes, +1 for a bug.

 

[mattrogowski]

For what it's worth this is also inconsistent with the API. The API endpoint calls filterViewable which removes threads you can't view the contents of from the results, even though they're visible in the forum thread list. We had to add another permission for viewing the contents of threads; the default one would be enabled so the threads would be returned by the API, and viewing the threads would check our new permission.

 

[JamesBrown]

Bug or by design, but it's annoying, if a user has permission to see threads, why can't they see those threads in What's new.

Did anyone find a workaround for this? Cheers.

 

[Mr Lucky]

if a user has permission to see threads, why can't they see those threads in What's new.

It's incredibly annoying if a guest finds the site and the main homer page is showing latest threads, we could actually be losing registrations due to visitors/guests not seeing that there is plenty of content.

 

[JamesBrown]

It's incredibly annoying if a guest finds the site and the main homer page is showing latest threads, we could actually be losing registrations due to visitors/guests not seeing the content.

Exactly that, we want to encourage a particular user group to subscribe. We want them to see the threads and when they cannot see the content they might hopefully subscribe. As it is, they think there is no new content, so why bother even returning!

 

[Mr Lucky]

I've edited my post slightly as it isn't to do with seeing the content per se but seeing the thread titles. Showing the titles in the New lists act asa kind of teaser - this has to be the main point of showing thread titles but not content. Even if the title is something as uninteresting as "Wordpress Drama" it could get a lot of people interested (as we know)