657307 - Let users comment on questions without being logged in

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(support.mozilla.org :: Questions, task)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

When we send people an email they are required to login before they can act on the mail (like write an answer to a question etc). Logging-in is a major headache, people forget their usernames, passwords, and generally can't be bothered with figuring that stuff out. Could we instead recognize them by a unique id in the email and give them the same experience as if they were logged-in, but for that URL only? By doing that they could just write an answer by clicking the link in the email, but if they really wanted to use the site, they would be asked to log-in.

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

The closest point to what you've asked for and how things work is to log people in automatically from links in email.

Another thing we can do to help is make sessions not expire, or at least add a 'remember me' cookie that is long-lived and on by default.

Comment 2

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Yeah, we should use a long lived "remember me" cookie in general (or even not expire at all), but for one-time users we should do the automatic log-in.

Comment 3

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Given bug 688033, is this a WONTFIX now?

Comment 4

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Yeah, that one doesn't covert the reply thing though, right? But we can try that first and see where it gets us.

Comment 5

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Refocusing back to the original bug. Another option might be to put a login form right there in place of the reply form.

Will this is assigned to you but it is not a priority right now.

Comment 6

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Unassigning this from me.

Comment 7

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

This is old and likely not needed anymore. Our sessions don't expire all the time in the past and we have tokens in email links that log users in.