Guests can see reply button in forum, resulting in 404 after posting

[jerone]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Log out
2. Go to forum post (e.g. https://openuserjs.org/announcements/Welcome!!!)
3. Press "Reply" button
4. Type something
5. Press other "Reply" button
6. See 404 page

Two solutions:

1. We hide/disable the "Reply" button for guests. Easy and fast.
2. We link the "Reply" button to the login page for guests. A little harder, because guests won't automatic return to the discussion again after logging in.

[Martii]

Try this.

1. Two tabs (or windows) on our site
2. Log into one
3. Go reply in the other.

This is the only use case where I can think of that executing that existing routine with the reply buttons/box is useful.

We link the "Reply" button to the login page for guests. A little harder, because guests won't automatic return to the discussion again after logging in.

That would definitely be a more graceful failure (#37). :)

[jerone]

• We link the "Reply" button to the login page for guests. A little harder, because guests won't automatic return to the discussion again after logging in.

After looking at it for a second time this may currently not be the user friendly solution. Altering the "Reply" button beside each existing comments to redirect to the login page shouldn't be hard. The problem lies when you scroll down the page and the reply textarea opens up. People will probably start typing before noting that they can't reply (or losing the text after pressing the reply button, resulting in a 404).
I'm looking into docs to get that textarea & corresponding buttons to disable and show another message that shows the user to sign in.