Anonymous posting

I've found out that someone has already written a 'hack' to allow for free Anonymous postings so that the username will be editable. But there are a few things you must know about this hack:

- Obviously, you can't post anonymously using a pre-registered username
- If you've been posting anonymously under a username, say "muhammed", and then someone comes along and registers the username "muhammed", then the previous anonymous posts will belong to the registered muhammed.
- IP addresses will be displayed with all posts, anonymous or otherwise.

By allowing Anonymous posting, those people who have problems with cookies will still be able to participate in the board. So if everyone is happy with the above conditions for the proposed anonymous hack (i.e. I don't hear any complaints by the weekend) then I'm going to install it.

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Myke
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Unfortunately, that little 'hack' I was proposing to use for our board allowing anonymous posters to use usernames other than "anonymous" was for a much older version of the board. I'm sorry I didn't spot this initially. Obviously, just applying the hack didn't work, and in fact, the entire board stopped working.

I tried to spend some time trudging through the perl code (1000s of lines worth) trying to see how the 'hack' was done, but like all hacks, the bloody thing was undocumented, no code comments, nothing. Seeing as it was a hack to a version of code much older than the one we're currently running made it much harder to follow. Otherwise I could just produce simple difference listings with the code.

The developer plans on incorporating the feature though in a future release, but hasn't given an ETA as of yet. In the mean time, the Anonymous posting feature will remain as it is, until either a later release incorporates the feature, or I manage to 'hack' it myself. Sorry about that /images/icons/frown.gif

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Myke
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