Content Blur Pro - Boost Registrations and Upgrades

Content Blur Pro - Boost Registrations and Upgrades [Paid] v2.3.0

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Ivancas said:
@Wutime can you add usergroup filtering? To allow certain usergroups (paid users for example) to bypass the blur
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To be recognized as a paying user, the user must have logged in and therefore being a registered user and having logged in he no longer sees the blurred text...
 
Ivancas said:
Usergroup filtering will allow me to choose which users can read the text or not. By "paying user" I mean secondary usergroups accessible through paid user upgrades.
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Let's think through this for a minute because I want the AddOn to be effective for everyone, especially existing users, while supporting as many use cases as possible.

Currently, it's aimed at just community owners that want to encourage user registrations, or, encourage registrations by protecting their best content (Articles, or important content-rich threads/forums).

Personally, I use this AddOn to protect some of my users' privacy in specific privacy focused forums. But, because I want the content to be consumed by Google, I blur the text so that I still get inbound links from Google, but require the general public to register for the forum before being able to sift through the content.

So, currently you can:
  • Choose to blur/protect specific thread_id's or entire forums
    • Accomplished by ignoring whatever forums, leaving the remainder protected
  • So, protected/blurred forums/ and specific Id's then promote registrations (via message + link, and/or registration popup)
The above is essentially a "guest mode" I suppose.

What you're asking is to be able to have a second mode specific to registered users. Whereby you can Blur specific forum's and ID's to specifically selected user groups to encourage "user upgrade" (payment).

If I added a "user permission" for "blur posts", this should cover all required possibilities that you require. Does that sound right?

You'd require:
  • Option to enable "pay upgrade permissions" (defaults off, essentially keeping the system working as-is for all current users of this addon)
  • Paid usergroup selection
    • These usergroups would be automatically excluded from being shown blurred posts
  • Blur Usergroup selection
    • These usergroups would be shown blurred text (unless also in the "paid usergroup" above)
  • Option to ignore forums (to keep things simple at first)
    • Would automatically ignore blurring text in these forums for all usergroups
  • Option to set pay link (default "account/upgrades")
    • This link is shown to users instead of the current "register/login" link
  • Phrase for the payment notice wording
Lastly, we could create a "user permission" for blurring text. This would allow granular control over every possibility by allowing "usergroup blur permissions" as well as "Node Permissions" to be set granularly per forum/node and usergroup. While this always sounds nice because it's so flexible, it does lead to LOTS of work for actual community owners because you need to specifically go in and set permissions quite specifically to get complex scenarios setup properly.

I'm curious, do you have multiple levels of paying subscribers? That's pretty much the only scenario that I can think of that would require a "user permission"... if it's just different pricing for period (weekly, monthly, etc), then "user permissions" wouldn't be needed, just a way to specify usergroup ignores, and a way to identify usergroups to target, and usergroups that qualify as paying members (to be auto-ignored).
 
Wutime said:
If I added a "user permission" for "blur posts", this should cover all required possibilities that you require. Does that sound right?
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Right, that would be awesome because the addon will encourage members to pay the user upgrade in order to read the content, knowing there is more content hidden.

Wutime said:
does lead to LOTS of work for actual community owners because you need to specifically go in and set permissions quite specifically to get complex scenarios setup properly.
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Honestly, I don't see how it would be difficult given the way how XF permission system works.

Wutime said:
I'm curious, do you have multiple levels of paying subscribers?
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I have monthly and yearly subscribers. Those are two different usergroups and I want them to read all the posts. Default registered usergroup will see blurry text in some forums.
 
True.

It can get complicated depending on the number of groups and forums and rules. But yeah, for your setup it'd be relatively straight forward.

I'll see about it next week.
 
Wutime said:
True.

It can get complicated depending on the number of groups and forums and rules. But yeah, for your setup it'd be relatively straight forward.

I'll see about it next week.
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Is it possible to add an option to display the first X posts and then blur the other ones?
 
Nice.

1. Can we blur it using text instead of image? (I do not care if someone manually remove it and copy text).
2. Option to show "Register or login to read full content" on blurred texts like quora.
 
  1. The blur is the actual text obfuscated, so it appears the same as the original, but is not
    • I could make an option to not obsufucate, would you prefer that?
  2. Yes, there's a notice, you can choose how often it shows (every post, first and last, first X posts, etc)
You'll need to give me an example of Quora if something is missing you'd like to see or use.

There's a demo here showing the the blur.
 
Ivancas said:
Why generate another http request just to display an image which can be replaced by text?
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There's no HTTP requests per-se.

It used to display an image for the blur, which is no longer used.

The text replacement looks far better, more authentic, and doesn't require an additional asset on the page. But mostly I swapped the image out because the text system looks much better.

If you want to NOT obsfucate the underlying text I can make that an option. It would have the drawback that someone could just disable the blur styling and/or copy and paste the blur text to read it, as well as "view source" to read it. But it that's what you're after, okay, just let me know.
 
Wutime updated Increase Registrations by Blurring Post Text with a new update entry:

v2.1.1 - Large feature update (inlcudes user targetting and payment upgrades)

  • NEW: Targeting available for Users (not just guests anymore)
  • NEW: Choose your implementation:
    1. Guests Only
    2. Users Only
    3. Guests & Users
  • NEW: Lightweight database tracking system implemented
  • NEW: Statistics automatically added to XF stats system
    • Tracks blur thread views, blur guest registrations, blur user upgrades
  • NEW: Moved notices to an actual template that allows variables and regular HTML (User mode only)
  • NEW: 4 permission...
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Wutime updated Increase Registrations by Blurring Post Text with a new update entry:

v2.1.1 - Large update including targeting Users for upgrades

If you launch the new "Users" system to target users to upgrade, and haven't dealt with permissions previously, please post in the discussion group for help.
  • NEW: Targeting available for Users (not just guests anymore)
  • NEW: Choose your implementation:
    1. Guests Only
    2. Users Only
    3. Guests & Users
  • NEW: Lightweight database tracking system implemented
  • NEW: Statistics automatically added to XF stats system
  • Tracks blur thread views, blur guest...
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Currently we are using a custom solution that displays the first 3 posts and hides the rest. Can this be done with this add on? Specifically to show the first X posts, and then blur the rest?
 
BuildBridges said:
Currently we are using a custom solution that displays the first 3 posts and hides the rest. Can this be done with this add on? Specifically to show the first X posts, and then blur the rest?
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Yea, that's right. If there's anything else you need just let me know. Can always add features if needed. But yes, out of the box blurring X posts is already supported.
 
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