Always-Anonymous Categories Plugin

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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:

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  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:

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

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  4. They will actually get anonymized:

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

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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”.)

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

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

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

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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).

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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!

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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

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

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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”

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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?

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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

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Для сведения: в Docker версии 2.4 при добавлении плагина возникает ошибка 500 сервера при отправке запроса к категории, помеченной как анонимная.

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@JaredReisinger переместил это в #plugin:broken-plugin в ожидании вашего расследования. В версии 2.4 я переделал способ работы с анонимными аккаунтами, поэтому, возможно, это сломало плагин.

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Как обсуждалось выше, я и @michaeld будем рады взять на себя поддержку этого плагина.

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У вас нет ориентировочного времени исправления, да? :wink:

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Наверное, где-то в сентябре…

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@sam прав: новые изменения, касающиеся анонимных пользователей, сломали плагин. Я уже занимаюсь этим, так как мне это нужно для одного из продуктов нашей компании.

Вот ошибка, которую я получаю в продукте:

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

Она возникает в этой строке:

Попробую исправить и скоро опубликую обновление здесь.

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Вот моё быстрое исправление: Updating plugin to work with Discourse v2.4.0.beta2 · danielvlopes/discourse-anonymous-categories@08dda70 · GitHub

Думаю, теперь, когда Discourse лучше поддерживает анонимных пользователей, можно убрать и части с пользовательскими полями (custom_fields), но пока я оставлю это изменение простым.

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@JaredReisinger, вы всё ещё поддерживаете этот плагин? Если нет, возможно, @Daniel_Lopes сможет назначить OP здесь, чтобы указать на ветку, и мы сможем выпустить это из #plugin:broken-plugin.

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Извините, я знаю, что я не гуру, и у меня не получается это сделать… Не могли бы вы, пожалуйста, написать несколько строк с инструкциями? Спасибо.