Immer-Anonym Kategorien Plugin

[michaeld (Michael - Communiteq)]

I had a request from a co-worker to find a way to offer “anonymous Q&A” to our division’s employees. At first blush, Discourse seemed like the wrong tool for the job: anonymous posting seemed anathema to the whole point of fostering open, friendly, but lively discussions. Discourse does have built-in support for anonymous posting, but it’s a global setting. What we needed was a way to restrict anonymous posting to a single category (or a select subset of them). Even better, make anonymous posting automatic, so that users don’t have to think about it (and can’t get it wrong).

Thus was born discourse-anonymous-categories.

This plugin lets you choose individual categories for “always-anonymous” behavior, where all posts and replies automatically use the anonymous pseudonym for the user instead of their actual identity. The user doesn’t have to opt-in, and more importantly, doesn’t need to remember to opt-out when they are done posting.

Here’s what that looks like:

1. After the plugin is installed, turn on the global setting to enable “always-anonymous” categories:
   

   

2. Then, pick a category (or create a new one) for which you want “always-anonymous” behavior, and turn on the “Force posts to be anonymous in this cateory” setting:
   

   

3. Now, when anyone posts (note that current user is “E”):
   

   

4. They will actually get anonymized:
   

   

5. … like this (note that post is as “anonymous”/“A”):
   

   
   
   
   

This plays very nicely with recent versions of discourse-feature-voting, which can be used to anonymously vote on topics. (The votes themselves aren’t anonymous, but the identities of the voters are not currently surfaced through the UI, unlike “Likes”.)

[11145 (Алексей Копаев)]

and whether non-registered users to post messages in this category?

[tophee (Christoph)]

Is this plugin still working (it hasn’t been updated since two years)?

[Daniel_Lopes]

Somehow I’m having a hard time making it work on my local environment. I’m gonna do some digging and share back here.

[Daniel_Lopes]

Yes, it still works. I had to delete my tmp folder in order to make it work but I think this is a problem with my local dev installation only (not using docker).

[JaredReisinger]

Sadly, the purpose for which this was created no longer exists, so I haven’t given the plugin any love for the last several years. If anyone wants to take over maintenance, I’d be happy to let them!

[julz (Julia C)]

@JaredReisinger

Sadly, the purpose for which this was created no longer exists, so I haven’t given the plugin any love for the last several years. If anyone wants to take over maintenance, I’d be happy to let them!

I have a use for this plugin. How do I get it ‘looked after again’? Non-tech person asking, I’m on Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting). @michaeld @RGJ

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

Do you have a budget for this? If so, posting in marketplace is most likely the best approach

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

Are you sure that the plugin is not working correctly anymore?

When I read the posts above it just says it needs a new maintainer but Daniel says “Yes, it still works”

[julz (Julia C)]

@RGJ

When I read the posts above it just says it needs a new maintainer but Daniel says “Yes, it still works”

Yes, I agree the post says it needs a new maintainer. I guess that’s what I’m wondering if someone would do. Is that something that comes with my Pro hosting package?

[adopilot (Admir Hodzic)]

I am runing it on v2.0.0.beta10 +111 and looks like it is working.
I do not have some issues whit my instace

[puchal]

Zur Info: Docker-Version 2.4 – Das Hinzufügen des Plugins führt beim Senden an eine als anonym gekennzeichnete Kategorie zu einem 500-Serverfehler.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@JaredReisinger hat dies in #plugin:broken-plugin verschoben, bis du die Untersuchung durchführst. Ich habe in Version 2.4 die Art und Weise, wie wir anonyme Konten handhaben, komplett überarbeitet, daher könnte das Plugin dadurch kaputtgegangen sein.

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

Wie oben besprochen, würden @michaeld und ich gerne die Wartung dieses Plugins übernehmen.

[puchal]

Hast du schon eine ETA für eine Lösung?

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

Wahrscheinlich irgendwo im September…

[Daniel_Lopes]

@sam hat recht, die neuen Arbeiten an den anonymen Benutzern haben das Plugin kaputt gemacht. Ich untersuche das gerade, da ich es für eines meiner Firmenprodukte benötige.

Der Fehler, den ich im Produkt erhalte, lautet:

NoMethodError (undefined method `create_shadow' for AnonymousShadowCreator:Class) /var/www/discourse/plugins/discourse-anonymous-categories/plugin.rb:76:in `block (2 levels) in activate!'

Dieser stammt von dieser Zeile:

plugin.rb

Ich werde versuchen, es zu beheben und hier bald ein Update veröffentlichen.

[Daniel_Lopes]

Das ist meine schnelle Lösung: Updating plugin to work with Discourse v2.4.0.beta2 · danielvlopes/discourse-anonymous-categories@08dda70 · GitHub

Ich denke, ich könnte die Teile mit den benutzerdefinierten Feldern des Benutzers jetzt entfernen, da Discourse eine bessere Unterstützung für anonyme Benutzer bietet, aber ich werde diese Änderung vorerst einfach halten.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@JaredReisinger pflegst du das Plugin noch? Falls nicht, könnte @Daniel_Lopes hier vielleicht OP werden, um auf den Branch zu verweisen, damit wir das aus #plugin:broken-plugin veröffentlichen können.

[puchal]

Es tut mir leid, ich weiß, dass ich kein Guru bin und es nicht zum Laufen bringen kann… Könntest du bitte ein paar Sätze mit Anweisungen schreiben? Vielen Dank.