@baris@community.nodebb.org why was this left as a draft 🤯

Nice job [image: 1773253618308-6295bb37-273e-4aba-a26a-55e06daee984-image.jpeg]

You can use nodebb-plugin-custom-pages to set up a new page and set it as the custom home page in the ACP. To redirect users to a topic you can use the custom JS tab in the acp and check the users joindate and then redirect. For example: $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', () => { if (ajaxify.data.template.topic && ajaxify.data.tid === 123) return; const oneDayMs = 86400000; if (app.user.uid && app.user.joindate > Date.now() - oneDayMs) { ajaxify.go('/topic/123/welcome'); } }); This will redirect anyone who joined in the past 24 hours to a topic. You have to update the url and topic id so the user isn't stuck in a redirect loop when they land on the welcome topic. Alternatively if you only want to redirect them once, you can set a flag in local storage and check before redirecting.

As a solution, the link you suggested me kinda helped, but not really... My alternative solution for this was to implement Anubis anti-crawler, since I don't trust Cloudflare that much... My Forum is not on Fediverse yet and I didn't share with anyone and still I was receiving high numbers of clicks and inconsistent unique visitors... I told robots.txt to block every bot since well I'm still building the Forum and still I received one bot in there... Hopefully with Anubis the problem can be at least minimized, but for anyone having a Forum... I suggest search for how to implement an anti-bot yourself since otherwise your bandwidth is going to cry for help. I implemented Anubis just today successfully, but I'll be monitoring the traffic of the site either way...