Anonymous guest posting

danielunited

Anonymous guest posting

Anonymous, permission-based guest posting extension for Flarum

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What

The extension lets unregistered users comment on discussion, create new discussions, and vote on polls. It is fully compatible with the latest version of Flarum and has been tested with dozens of extensions and large-scale communities. The extension was developed by @clarkwinkelmann, a core developer of Flarum.

How

🔒 Permission-based

Once you install the extension, you can configure its functionality from the Permissions panel (and limit it by tags). You can let unregistered users:

Start discussions
Start discussions without approval
Reply to discussions
Reply to discussions without approval
Vote on polls
Change a vote

If you don't select "without approval" options, anonymous posts and discussions will not be shown until approved by a moderator.

👤 Migrate posts into a newly-created account

Once the user has made an anonymous post, he'd be shown a message on the homepage encouraging him to sign up and attribute his posts to his newly-registered account (works by using cookies). How cool is that?! 🤯

🌎 Translatable

All strings in this extension can be translated through the Linguist extension

📧 Support

If you need any help, shoot me an email at daniel@overview.co.il

Yolo

Would be great to enter a Nickname. Atm there are just Guests. anyway: Love it! thx

danielunited

Yolo We supported this feature in previous versions of Flarum. Will work to restore it

Ffuser1

Does not integrate well with mention..

Replying a guest post, does not handle the mention well. It shows codes of the mention instead of guest.

Additionlaly, instead of displaying guest as author, anonymous would be better as display name.

clarkwinkelmann

Ffuser1 Replying a guest post, does not handle the mention well. It shows codes of the mention instead of guest

It's a Flarum bug, should be fixed in a future version flarum/framework3427

This extension is still under development but contains a workaround for the bug and alternate mention styling https://github.com/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-prominent-post-numbers (can be tested with :dev-main version until official release)

jimmybonez

danielunited

I bought this plugin and I am also looking at solutions to this. I was thinking to have it display something like a userid
like in this plugin https://discuss.flarum.org/d/29781-usercard-uid.
That stays per user for the time they are online, similar to the way its done in the chans.

girefko

This is amazing!! Congrats on the great work! I will definitely use this once my community expands.

almalino

Nice and needed extension. I might consider to use it

jimmybonez

having a uniqueid rather than Guest will also solve the 'mention' issue wont it?
Another workaround could be to take a randomized username i.e: https://usernamegenerator.com/random or custom nick per post/ session

RichardLo

Hi, bought right now this extension but receive the follow error: Warning: the packages key 'convo-extensions/flarum-ext-guest-posting' doesn't match the name defined in the package metadata'kilowhat/flarum-ext-guest-posting' in repository https://extiverse.com/composer
Also I dont see this extended "Everyone" Option in Permissions.
Update: Found it! Had to activate the extension 😃

RichardLo

OK, another question... now, if I post as an anonymous user, my "user name" is "[deleted]". How can I change it to e.g. "guest" ?

luceos

Ping @danielunited

RichardLo

Ping @danielunited. I also wrote an email. no answer. will maybe cancel the purchase.

luceos

RichardLo cancel the subscription from extiverse with the feedback you'd like a refund and I'll take care of it. You can also reach out to me privately on discord.

RichardLo

luceos thanks for your quick reply! 🙂 Is there no way to change the name? I like this extension. I think its also the only one with this functionality of posting without registration?!

luceos

RichardLo @danielunited owns the code, we cannot just copy it.

RichardLo

Found a solution 🙂 With FoF Linguist I changed the string "core.lib.username.deleted_text". Now the name of an unknown user is different.

ernestdefoe

I see this extension is no longer available on Extiverse. Is this on purpose or what? I was going to be getting it in the next few days.

luceos

ernestdefoe pending a response from the extension author I've hidden it. I don't want to offer extensions that aren't receiving the level of support expected of a premium extension.

luceos

ernestdefoe extension has been restored after having chatted with the author, please forward any support requests to daniel <at> overview.co.il.

ernestdefoe

luceos oh I don’t blame you on that. Makes a lot of sense to not allow a purchase if the author of the extension isn’t gonna support it.