I’m new to discourse, one thing I’m searching is a guest signup/login feature, which allow a user to signup by just using their name to start utilizing discourse, I searched through discourse’s massive collection of plugin repos in github org but didn’t find anything related so far.
I would like to create guest accounts for users’ in a discord server to crosspost their bug reports and technical discussions to discourse to make it searchable through google, as discord is a private messaging platform but most discord server’s are using it as a forum too, when someone needs a solution they search it on google and when they don’t find it on there then they directly open a new ticket on discord server, and mostly their question was already answered by someone in the discord server.
Thanks Robert for your reply, yeah I know about it and I also saw few bidirectional messaging plugins which allow sending and receiving messages to and from discourse and discord, but I don’t want to add any obstacle for our discord members to visit discourse and login, that’s why they are probably using discord for almost everything for a seamless ux. They will most likely never interact with discourse, just their technical discussions will automatically be posted on discourse for better discoverability.
After reading the whole discussion I think the takeaway is to create an Staged User (it requires email I guess, so I might have to drop this idea), or create an Special User and treat User model appropriately.
I’m thinking of directly inserting users (which include only name and/or profile picture) and topics into db, because I don’t need any functionality discourse provide like notification etc. Is it a correct approach?