# Why we must login before we can use share function
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-must-login-before-we-can-use-share-function/22441
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 23, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-must-login-before-we-can-use-share-function/22441 "2014-11-23T13:42:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@wuchong](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wuchong)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-must-login-before-we-can-use-share-function/22441/1 "2014-11-23T13:42:57Z")
I do think share is a very important function in forum. However a visitor(come from google or other share link) without login can not share the post which he likes. This may reduce engagement and traffic.
Why Discourse did not make it like a blog system, people can share post without login?
Or could it be configured ?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-must-login-before-we-can-use-share-function/22441/2 "2014-11-23T18:26:29Z")
You can always share by clicking or tapping the date stamp.
You can search for previous discussions on this, the data showed that few people use these explicit share functions; most people know how to copy URLs.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2014, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-we-must-login-before-we-can-use-share-function/22441/3 "2014-11-23T18:26:33Z")