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Holy balls, is this fast! Mind sharing some details of your tech stack?

Secondly, can guests actually ask things? They have a text box, but no "Post" button, and if you hit enter, the text goes away, but the question doesn't seem to be asked. This is important to me, because I don't want my users signing up for Yet Another Service just to ask a question...

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At the moment you have to be signed up. I'll set it up so you can optionally enable anonymous posting or not. Personally I like people in my community to sign up so I know their name and their bio, and you dont get that from Guest posts. But yes, it should be at the disgression of the person running the community whether this is allowed. So I'll build this functionality over the weekend probably.

It's built on CodeIgniter, using jQuery. I wrote all the code except for that.

Cool. I agree, it'd be better to know who they are, but I like to stay as friction free as possible...

That's cool. I've heard good things about CI, but haven't used it. Back in my PHP days, it was always Zend... ugh.

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