Currently the only real benefits to registering here are the dark theme, if that is desirable, the ability to bookmark links, and the ability to see certain information which I had to remove from public view, especially download counts.

So now, under each post you will see a link that says "Bookmark this page" and you may click it if you want to keep a link to that page. Then you may access those links on the "Bookmarks" page which appears in two different places once you log in: on the Home menu at the top, and on the User menu at the bottom of the left-hand column. The Bookmarks page is unique to each user, and nobody else can see your bookmarks. 

The Bookmarks feature is useful even to me, since there are certain podcasts or articles I am always posting in Social Media. This is my second round with such a feature, and the first stopped working with updates last year. That is a persistent problem with Open Source projects once a particular developer creates something, and after awhile loses interest in what he created, moving on to other projects. (Poojeets do that all the time, and I avoid using any of their projects for that reason.)

Download counts were concealed from public view in early 2024, as they were being exploited by bots to DDOS the website. Loading pages with 20-25 podcasts takes 20-25 database queries to produce them, and our enemies were exploiting that by finding and repeatedly loading those pages hundreds or thousands of times per hour, bringing the site to a crawl. So that is why the public can no longer see download counts of my podcasts. (Nobody wants to download Isaiah, anyway, compared to Revelation or Genesis!) 

As for comments, I have long debated opening them however the Forum is a lot better suited for that purpose, so I doubt I will ever open comments here. Instead, I would encourage users to join the Forum, and/or the Chat. 

Until recently, Christogenea has always had a mailing list. It employed Open Source software called GNU Mailman which was pretty much an industry standard for several decades, having been used by hundreds of thousands of companies and websites. When I was forced by obsolete server software to update my mail server a few months ago, the old Mailman software was not compatible with any of my choices. That is no wonder, because evidently many organizations are no longer using it, and the Open Source project is now being maintained at MIT by a poojeet! So I had to give up Mailman, which I hardly ever used anyway, but when I can I will look for a viable alternative. I had not used the list in several years, so it is no big loss.  

More on the dark theme: 

This website uses a CMS called Drupal. Once upon a time Drupal 6 had a user preference for themes, and there we had 2 themes available, a light and a dark, for readers to choose. But that option disappeared with Drupal 7, and has never returned. So this is all I can offer at the moment, however I am continuing to explore other possibilities. 

As for this dark theme which you now see, I am able to change the theme by user role, so logged-in users will see the dark theme, but the light theme will reappear upon logout. Personally, I have no preference between them, but I have to use the dark theme now because I am logged in all the time.