[nikital]

Looks nice, I wanted to submit a project and I spent time to fill the forms but I was greeted with a login wall after I filled all the details. There was no indication anywhere in the process that it would be required. It made me feel somewhat deceived.

I think it would be more honest towards your users to be upfront that you require login to submit a project.

[scastiel]

Noted, thanks for the feedback.

I guess it makes sense that signing up is required for obvious spam-prevention reasons, but it could be more clear when you fill the form. I’ll fix that ASAP.

[codingdave]

> ...for obvious spam-prevention reasons

If that is your goal, you also can just code up a moderation queue - sign up to have your content posted immediately, or submit anonymously and it will be moderated before it is visible.

[rrishi]

Its the actual act of moderating that would be hard

[purplecats]

> but I was greeted with a login wall after I filled all the details.

and? that sort of user-hostility is the signature of the modern web. for example: posting on imgur.com does the same thing with the added bonus that you lose your context and your comment after logging/signing in.

reddit does the same thing so that you spent time crafting the perfect comment only to get told you have to wait an arbitrary amount of minutes before you can post.

the whole point is to get the user to invest as much as possible and then make them pay the price as a mechanism to force them to reconcile with the sunk cost fallacy. the web is built upon such an outwardly hostile environment, and it will only get worse.

and i hate it.