It’s not supposed to be a forum or community, so I threw out quite a lot of elements and functionality. Would be great to hear some feedback if the ux is intuitive, if there’s glitches, or it all makes sense overall.
As a particular feature logging in only enables you to post on a Guestbook topic. I only linked authentication for that to GitHub. Not sure yet how to set this up best. I want it simple and don’t offer many choices… do you feel that works?
Nice design. One interesting thing about this though is that the like button is restricted to users, so unless I register to the blog I can’t like any of the topics
Yeah, it’s the default Discourse like button. It also seems the default anywhere? Or do you know a site where you can like without being signed in? Would be curious to see an example.
Maybe I should just hide it as well… or put some dummy likes myself, so it doesn’t look so unloved
The same exists on some other forums (different platforms) as well as trying to like comments on websites (some news sites where comments are allowed). Many times they have a Facebook sign-in to comment.
One reason for this is so a comment cannot garner an exorbitant number of likes from anonymous users liking a comment, leaving, returning and liking it again, or the poster liking their own comment. Another reason is because the site wants to build up their user base.
