Allow unregistered users to post as anonymous

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The discussion revolves around allowing unregistered users to post as anonymous on a Discourse forum. codmakr initiated the topic, seeking a plugin or solution for an internal forum. pfaffman suggested setting anonymous posting min trust level to 0, but codmakr found this only allows registered users to post anonymously.

joreg shared a similar experience, having previously used a custom forum software that allowed guest posting. They currently use a shared “guest” account, but face issues with multiple users logged in simultaneously. joreg and others expressed interest in true guest-posting functionality, citing the benefits of not requiring registration for one-off questions or comments.

However, codinghorror and jomaxro stated that this feature is not on the current roadmap, with jomaxro noting that it’s unlikely to be added in the near future, though changes could occur in later years.

The title says everything.

We need this feature for an internal Forum, does anyone knows a plugin or a other way?

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I don’t think this is possible at the moment.

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You might be able to change anonymous posting min trust level to 0. Seems dangerous, though.

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Our Forum is only avaible from the Internal Network.

I think a guest function would be really handsome. anonymous posting Level = 0 only gives me the oppertunity to post as anonymous registered user, or?!

If there is no solution i must create a guestuser and communicate the entrance data to our employees.

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same here. we’d also be interested in having unregistered (guest) visitors be able to post without any restrictions.

we’ve been running a homebrew forum software for the past 10 years with this feature. the forum was public and we didn’t have a single incident of a guest misusing his anonymity! (we’re a small community <10000 users).

when we switched to discourse we created a user named “guest” with pwd “guest” for anyone to use. now we noticed that there is a problem with multiple guests logged in at the same time, they see what each other is typing, which makes this kind of unusable..

our main rational behind a guest account is this:
we prefer to not impose on anyone to register with our forum if they only have a one-off quick question or comment. the time someone considers to register may already set them off in contributing to the discussion at all.

is there any chance to get true (optional of course) guest-posting functionality? or at least make a guest-account unique to maybe the IP it is logged in from?

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It is not on our roadmap at the current time.

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Sorry to necro this

Will this feature be available any time soon, or ever?

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This is still not on our roadmap. I do not expect it to be added to the roadmap, but things could certainly change in future years.

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퀘스트 유형이 콘텐츠에 포함된 경우에만 주제 생성 시 창을 표시할 수 있으며, 그런 다음 "게시/새 주제 만들기"를 누르면 로그인/회원가입 페이지로 리디렉션되는 것인가요?

그게 어떻게 가능할까요?

그리고 네, 비등록 사용자의 게시를 허용하는 것은 정말 좋은 기능이 될 거예요.