On 3/30/2016 5:31 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
For reading posts, it wouldn't break clients, no. But what about writing
messages with PGP signatures? If the client doesn't supported creating them
automatically, it's too much of a pain the ass to do that manually.
That's right. But you can use DFeed to post, and you're no worse off then with
other forum software.
You'd have the
option of what client to use, and if you use DFeed, it could be set to
not present unregistered postings to you (a perq of registering
yourself, you can customize the settings).
Oh, no, no, no. That's a broken system. If one were to add such a layer of only
allowing registered postings, this would have to be enforced for all users, not
on a per-user preference. Otherwise you'd have a two-layer forum that would get
super confusing. What if a registered poster replies to a non-registered poster
message? I'd still see such messages. Or what about people that I want to see
their posts, but they didn't bother to register and post unregistered?
This is one of those things what would have to be a like a code formatting
guidelines: it has to be the same for all developers in a project. It can't be
like the choice of IDE/editor, which can be left to individual preference.
I suppose it depends on how much seeing posts from unregistered users bothers
you.
