This may have been reported before, but I couldn’t find anything.
The reply button is appearing on closed posts sometimes. It isn’t always and as far as I know, it doesn’t do anything but is still there. The screenshot below shows I can reply even though it is closed.
That’s not this issue in this case, the reply button was even visible for me without authentication when I found the above topic through a search engine and visited the forum for the first time.
But with that button you couldn’t open the composer as it was reported in this topic, could you?
I think there was always a reply button for logged-out users. As long as the user doesn’t log in, you cannot tell if they have the permission to reply. That affects closed and archived topics, but also topics in categories where only some groups are allowed to reply. Anons see a reply button in all these cases
It’s also visible on closed topics on Meta.
אני משתמש בפורום באתר מסוים מבוסס Discourse ויש לי רמת אמון 4 (לא מנהל או אדמין). אני מוצא שימושי להיות מסוגל תחילה לסגור/לנעול פוסט (כדי למנוע תגובות חדשות) ולאחר מכן להוסיף תגובה סופית.
אז אם הרעיון הוא להסתיר את כפתור התגובה, אני חושב שזה רעיון טוב להגביל זאת לרמות אמון מסוימות.
I tried reproducing this on the same website the author was using (that is out of date) and I am not seeing the same results. It is working like expected for me.