How public is this site?

[Technoshaman]

Can peeps who are not registered see the content of the posts here?

[anderbill]

I think that an account is required to participate, including viewing posts.

I entered the URL of this post into a new browser window on a separate machine and was re-directed to the forum.openglobalmind.com/login URL.

[Jerry]

I think that’s right.

Pete is authoritative on this

[holtzermann17]

I’m not quite clear WHY (strategically) the forum is not public?

[peterkaminski]

I don’t know how I missed this topic!

But anyway, I answered the question here:

Goodbye mailing list, hello forum

It’s an artifact of getting the Discourse going quickly months ago, and just not getting around to talking about making the forum publicly visible. Thanks for the nudge! I discussed with Jerry today. After a couple of weeks of notice and discussion, we plan to make the OGM Forum contents publicly visible. (It’ll still require an invite or approval to participate and make posts, etc.)

And the result, of course:

Making OGM Forum Publicly Visible

Hello OGM Folks! As you probably already know, OGM does much of its work in public view. Our regular meetings, for instance, are recorded and posted and made available for anyone to view on YouTube. Similarly, Jerry and Pete always intended OGM Forum posts to be viewable to anybody (and any search engine) on the web, without any sign-in required. It’s not that way right now, just for the simple reason that the right switch didn’t get flipped during setup. We would like to flip that switch n…