Post without signup?

Feature
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Is there a way to allow posting anonymously without users signing up in Discourse?

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Not while signed out, only users that have an account, you can enable " Allow Users to switch to anonymous mode" site setting in your forum, for users to be able to switch to a completely anonymous account.

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If you use email-in, you can setup an email address for a category that will enable “anonymous users” to participate. This requires “staged users”, then in a category :

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You need to setup the engage@example.org email address to forward to your installation’s discourse email (the one you POP.)

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That looks like a good idea! I followed your link to staged users and do not understand the connection. Could it be that you linked the wrong URL?

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Yes, you’re right. I corrected the link.

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I have enabled this setting, however, I’m not seeing how you can switch to an anonymous account? How do you do this?

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Click or tap your user avatar at the upper right, then the spy / anonymous glyph.

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I think they’re talking about staged users here though…

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Staged users haven’t logged in so that doesn’t make sense to me? You must log in to be able to switch to anonymous.

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Agreed. I think there is some confusion stemming from this:

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Yes! Thanks for that. Didn’t notice that inconspicuous little icon before. :wink:

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Do you understand that a staged user won’t be able to do that though? They are only interacting with the site via email.

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Yeah… Not a problem. The only users I’m concerned about are registered users on my site.

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AFAIK, this is not a core feature, is not available in a plugin, and is not planned in core:

FYI, three anonymous posting features have been requested multiple times. Only one is implemented:
:heavy_check_mark: allow a registered user to post anonymously (while signed in)
:x: allow an unregistered user to post anonymously
:x: allow a category that only has anonymous posts, i.e. even registered users can only make anonymous posts

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would love to see these 2 features also be implemented as well,

  • allow an unregistered user to post anonymously
  • allow a category that only has anonymous posts, i.e. even registered users can only make anonymous posts
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