Anonymous access to the forum

[Claude Paroz]

Hello,

Am I the only one or did Google closed anonymous access to Google groups?
Could it be a setting in the group config?

In my opinion, it is not acceptable for the project if accessing the
Django group posts require authentication.

If someone has more information about that change, that would be great.

Claude
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[Markus Holtermann]

Thanks for bringing this up, Claude. I'll look into it.

Cheers,

Markus

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[Adam Johnson]

You're not the only one, I also get redirected to login when visiting the group URL in a "private mode" window: https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers

I did some research and found there's a "New Google Groups" update. I think this has done it. Links:

• Beta announcement post: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/new-google-groups-beta.html
• General release post: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/05/new-google-groups-generally-available.html
• List of changes: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9687393 (I couldn't spot anything related to removing anonymous access)

I checked on another group I'm an admin for and in settings I found "Who can see group" with options "Group members" and "Anyone on the web". Perhaps Google didn't migrate this setting and we need to reset it to "Anyone on the web"? Can one of the admins for django-users and django-developers check?

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[Claude Paroz]

Looks like it works again like before, now.

It may have been a temporary "accident"…

Claude

[Claude Paroz]

Maybe I spoke too quickly.

Now I'm asked for login again :-(

Claude

[Markus Holtermann]

Thanks Adam. I did set the value to "Anyone on the web" again (it had that value already). And since that didn't change anything I went public: https://twitter.com/m_holtermann/status/1295635386820157440

What _does_ work, is viewing threads directly, only showing a list of threads doesn't work for me as an anonymous user.

Cheers,

Markus

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 10:31 AM, Adam Johnson wrote:
> You're not the only one, I also get redirected to login when visiting
> the group URL in a "private mode" window:
> https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers
>
> I did some research and found there's a "New Google Groups" update. I
> think this has done it. Links:

> * Beta announcement post:
> https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/new-google-groups-beta.html
> * General release post:
> https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/05/new-google-groups-generally-available.html
> * List of changes: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9687393 (I

> couldn't spot anything related to removing anonymous access)
> I checked on another group I'm an admin for and in settings I found
> "Who can see group" with options "Group members" and "Anyone on the
> web". Perhaps Google didn't migrate this setting and we need to reset
> it to "Anyone on the web"? Can one of the admins for django-users and
> django-developers check?
>
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 08:14, Claude Paroz <cla...@2xlibre.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Am I the only one or did Google closed anonymous access to Google groups?
> > Could it be a setting in the group config?
> >
> > In my opinion, it is not acceptable for the project if accessing the
> > Django group posts require authentication.
> >
> > If someone has more information about that change, that would be great.
> >
> > Claude
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> > www.2xlibre.net
> >
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