I installed the Channels app and started adding hashtags to the homepage TIMELINE posts, without first creating the channel separately in the top menu. When I click on these hashtags in my timeline posts, view channel pages display OK if I am logged in. However, if I open another browser, and paste the view channel URL and am NOT logged in (a guest), all I see is a blank page.
(Example: add a quick post to the homepage timeline & add a brand new hashtag, click on the link, and view channel. If you are logged in, you will see the channel. Then copy the URL, open another browser where you are not logged in, and paste the URL. Do you still see the channel or a blank page?)
I also noticed that when I create a new channel from the top menu first, and then add posts/hashtags on the channel pages directly, both members and guests can view the channel page. However, the minute I add a hashtag to homepage timeline posts, only members can view those channels. The general public will then see a blank page.
Posts to Channels directly do not appear on the homepage timeline/outline - I think there should be an option to allow.
TY.
Hello Jeff C !
About "invisible channels for the guests" - please specify does your Unauthenticated level have the allowed action "View channel"?
About this one: "Posts to Channels directly do not appear on the homepage timeline/outline " - correct, because Channels have own visibility and can't be shown in the public content.
Hi Leonid.
FYI: this is on UNA 9.01. Haven't upgraded to the beta.
please specify does your Unauthenticated level have the allowed action "View channel"?
Yes. That's what's strange. Posting a hashtag to the homepage timeline should not then prevent guests (unauthenticated) from seeing that entire channel thereafter (guests then see a blank browser page). Something blocks guests from seeing a channel once a hashtag is posted somewhere outside that channel.
"Posts to Channels directly do not appear on the homepage timeline/outline " - correct, because Channels have own visibility and can't be shown in the public content.
Got it. Thank you.