A user, drreen, requested a feature to prevent non-registered users from viewing images in posts. codinghorror stated that this has never been requested before and there are currently no plans to implement it. However, simon provided a CSS workaround to hide images for anonymous users, which Mittineague confirmed works, although it also hides avatars in quotes and images in oneboxes. thoka also expressed interest in this feature, particularly for restricting the publishing of user faces to certain groups in a public school setting.
Hey guys
Is there a way to prevent non-registered users to see images in posts?
Lot of typical forums bring this feature with them.
I searched in discourse admin settings, but could not find such an option.
I only could find one to prevent attachment downloads.
We have no plans for this, and it has never been requested until now.
Yes, if hiding them with css is good enough for you, you can do it like this.
.anon .cooked img {
display: none;
}
I tried and it does work.
It also hides avatars in quotes, images in oneboxes and emoji, but I guess if the idea is to give a reduced experience to non-registered visitors (i.e. anons) then it fills the bill.
I’m trying to establish a discourse forum in a public school in Germany.
For any such efforts it would be great to give users an option to replace avatars with symbols for non logged in viewers or to restrict publishing of their faces to certain groups only.