Feature Request: support for anonymous/session based users

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I'd like people to be able to use my pinax site (tuttivisti.com) without
having to register.

I've done this specific thing before but it would be great if there was an
integrated solution within pinax for this kind of behavior.

In general the conversion rate from visitor to user is greatly amplified if
users can try out your site without having to provide an email or even
credentials. 
   Nick

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dur...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2008 at 1:51

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Several thoughts:

An email address is not required to create a login.

You can provide as much content as you like to non-logged in users. (They just 
don't
get the social stuff which makes sense since not being a signed in user is 
anti-social.)

There is a possibility that Django will be upgrading the support for anonymous 
users
for 1.1. Pinax developers should watch that possibility carefully before 
attempting
any major hack arounds on the behalf of Mr. Anonymous.

Original comment by rockmhow...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 11:06

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I know that an email is not required in the default installation of pinax. But 
in the
case of my app, it makes sense to provide the entire functionality even to non 
logged
in users.

The way I solved the issue at the moment is to let my main model class (Movie) 
be
linked to either a User or a Session. This way I can identify all the content a 
user
added without registering using the session key and when the user decides to 
register
link all the data correctly to the new user.

But this is not as clean a solution if this mechanism was handled automatically 
at
the Pinax or Django level.

But I look forward to the new development you're speaking about.

Original comment by dur...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2008 at 11:25

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Not assigning this to a release at this time.

Original comment by pyDanny on 13 Mar 2009 at 4:01

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Original comment by jtau...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2009 at 3:04

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