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?