[Feature] Public/anonymous upload

[bo0tzz]

Opengist looks very nice, props on the great project!

I'd like to request a setting to enable anonymous/public gist creation, so an opengist instance can be used without needing to create an account.

[bo0tzz]

Another option, at least for me, would be a "referral link" of sorts that allows someone to do an anonymous upload under an existing account.

[thomiceli]

Thanks :)

What's the deal with creating an account ? Besides if you setup OAuth it would require 2-3 clicks for your users to create one.
If we implement this, that means the gist would be read only after it was created since it's anonymous ?

[thomiceli]

I can see maybe see the use case if you're the only one to use Opengist in your private environment, but that would mean to totally remove the accounts system for the instance; why not

[bo0tzz]

What's the deal with creating an account

Not a huge deal of course, but I'm thinking about using it for people to upload troubleshooting info (logs etc) and it'd be nice to keep the barrier on that low, especially if offering a way for people to upload directly from a CLI or such.

the gist would be read only after it was created since it's anonymous

Yes, which is fine. A potential option I've seen some bins offer would be to generate an extra link that allows editing/deleting later, or to throw a temporary cookie into the user's browser. In case of the referral link type setup I imagine it would become owned by the referring user who would then have edit rights.