[Forum] Making "What's New?" Still Work for Unregistered when Search is Disabled for them?

[PoC]

Apologies if this has been answered before, I couldn't find anything previously.

To save on some of our site resources I recently made the site search function available to logged-in users only. However in doing so the "What's New?" tab/function also stops working for those not logged-in (since it's based on search).

Is there a way that the "What's New?" tab can be specifically excluded from this (i.e. that non-logged-in users can still use that button, but not make actual site searches)?

Many thanks for any feedback/ideas!

[punchbowl]

Unfortunately they are linked. Best thing you can do is leave search on but make guests solve a capcha every time they do a proper search (not what's new)

[PoC]

Thanks for the info!

[punchbowl]

you could just hide the search box (the one in the navbar) for guests too. That'd require a template edit to the navbar but shouldn't be too hard.