Hello Mist,

Actually it is not a bug. It follows the behavior of the stream in Easysocial. Only a user that has an account in Easysocial will be able to comment and view the comment made.

I get that and it's ok in the context of EasySocial ... but we also have the option to "integrate" EasySocial comments system with other components, "outside" of the EasySocial system.

For example, by default we have a posibillity to integrate EasySocial comments with Joomla Articles ... but those comments are totally hidden for public, creating confusion.

Basically for a guest, nothing it's rendered, no comments, no "please login to view comments" message ... nothing, like there is no comments functionality at all.

It's ok to allow only registered EasySocial users to post comments on Joomla Articles but it's totally wrong to hide from public/ guests the entire comment system hence all the comments posted ... or to don't provide a "switch" in backend for this behavior.

In my case for example i have a comments counter and a comments "tab" on each Joomla article.
A guest will notice that there are 10 comments posted ... but when he will access the comments tab a blank space will show-up because EasySocial will block guests to view the article comments.

Let me discuss this with the team and see what we can do about this No promises though.

I take that as a promise anyway (just kidding).
See what you guys can do about it. I will really love this and i bet many others.

I think it's really mandatory to allow guests to read comments since you guys already went along the path to provide EasySocial comments integration with "external" components (Joomla Articles)

Of course, in the "context" of EasySocial as a "closed system" social network, current behavior makes sense but if we take this a step further and allow "external" integrations this becomes a little odd.

Yeah, we can integrate EasySocial comments with Joomla Articles but nobody will notice them until register and login

Only after the user will register and login he will notice : "Oh, hello darling, there is a comment system here !!! Oh look how much activity on this site on this hidden comment system !"

Hey Mist,

We'll see what we can do about this as we have pretty limited time Perhaps you want to fund this feature?

Sure, let me know how much financial effort this modifications need to see if i can afford it.
If you want, you can make this ticket private to discuss such kind of information

Hi Mist,

Regarding this matter, can you write us an email to sales@stackideas.com so that we can discuss this further? Please put a url reference to this thread in your email so that we can follow up your request quickly

Thanks.