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Possibility to add group functionality for a guest user
Would it be possible to add the group functionality for guest users as well? This would include adding the button to add an entity to the clipboard. This way guest users could actively work with the database and publish groups to a wider audience.
Theoretically, we could allow ALL guests (because they are internally represented by a single user called guest) the same set of personal groups but I think this might be very confusing. Wouldn't you like the guest users EACH to have their own set of personal groups?
Both solutions are possible. Either all guests have the same set of person groups, which could be identified by their browsing session, or each guest opens up a new session and only sees his on set of groups. As the data shown for all guests is public, it doesn't matter, that groups from other guest users are visible. But we can discuss this further in one of our next calls. Thank you @moritzschepp
So let's say we'd attach a personal group of entities to a browser session. In this case the group would be lost (or at least irretrievable) once the browser is closed. We could instead set a permanent cookie to make the binding survive browser restarts. But this is still very weak: If that browser installation is lost, so is the personal group.
If you'd like to give users the possibility to build collections of entities, why not add a registration feature?