A guest mode is a great idea.

This is your slice of the web, you can of course do whatever you want. But you wanted feedback from a user perspective.

A nice thing about a “guest mode” is that you can let people jump right in, and if they’re hooked and interested, let them unlock those capabilities by making an account. Just don’t reset any progress or work!

Create a token (cookie) on the client. Tie that to an automatically created account. Give the user the option to register credentials for the token. Now it's on the user to decide to register before their cache gets cleared (warn them of course).

> when you log back in

If only browsers had an API for persistent per-domain storage: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca...