It might be something to look at short term, though really I don't like the idea because it punishes the users who "pay" for the site. On a typical day for every registered user that accesses the forum there's 5 to 10 other guests that view the site.. so the ad revenue generated by the unregistered viewers is 5 to 10 times that generated by the registered viewers.
And in theory those people could just register.. which would simply drive up the # of registered users but not have any other benefit.
I do understand though that people have donated to the site directly, so I'm not completely averse to it.
We're working on a more permanent solution to the performance issues during the busy times, one that we hope will ensure that everyone can see the site even when it gets really busy. We have some technical work to do and some testing to do so I don't want to go into too many details yet, I'll have more info as we validate the plans.
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