I think it would make sense to completely remove the New Comment field when a user isn’t logged in to not give the appearance that it’s easy to comment directly on the alignment forum.
Yep, sorry, this is the expected behavior and anything else is a bug. It used to be this way, but some changes to some of the commenting code must have broken it. Definitely our bad.
A similar bug—when I go to the AF, the top right says Log In, then has a Sign Up option, and leads me through the standard sign-up process. Given that it’s invite only, seems like it should tell people this, and redirect them to make a LW account?
I do think “non-member AIAF” account is a useful abstraction, just one we haven’t leveraged very much. But, for example, it does allow you to respond to comments on your post on the AIAF, even if you are not a member. So the signup does make sense.
Yep, sorry, this is the expected behavior and anything else is a bug. It used to be this way, but some changes to some of the commenting code must have broken it. Definitely our bad.
A similar bug—when I go to the AF, the top right says Log In, then has a Sign Up option, and leads me through the standard sign-up process. Given that it’s invite only, seems like it should tell people this, and redirect them to make a LW account?
I do think “non-member AIAF” account is a useful abstraction, just one we haven’t leveraged very much. But, for example, it does allow you to respond to comments on your post on the AIAF, even if you are not a member. So the signup does make sense.