feature: unprivileged user accounts

[icxes]

I've brought this up before, but I think we ssie should seriously consider adding unprivileged/normal user accounts. The way I see it, at least

1. submitting songs, and possibly
2. commenting on news (to avoid this, or at least make it easier to deal with)

should be limited to logged in users. There should also be some way to connect a website user to an IRC nick (a field you can set in profile? a code you need to PM Hanyuu?). I wouldn't keep basic functionality like listening, requesting, searching, etc. behind registration, though.

Pros:

• Could associate good uploads with a particular user (the current "Good?" button supposedly does this with IPs, but IPs change, unlike users, which is why nobody currently uses it)
• Users could favorite songs directly on the website (provided they've "linked" their website account and irc nick)
• Possibility of sending some form of (optional/opt-in) notifications (email? notification on the site?) about things (song submission accepted? new news post? etc.) if we ever decide that's a feature worth having

Cons:

• Extra complexity. Probably requires extensive rework of the code, since currently any user is assumed to be at least somewhat "trusted".

Other:

I would expect this to be one of the first feature requests if anyone was to actually ever use valkyrie outside of r/a/dio. Which could actually happen, since there was already more than one person asking about that with the old site... until they realised they'd never be able to set it up.

[Wessie]

Personally don't think we should require user accounts for anything in particular, the issue with news can be avoided by closing comments after a while and just having easier to use management tools. Optional accounts could still be considered but would probably be a post-1.0 thing