Theme and other settings for logged out users

[leslieriver]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

logged out users can't change theme or make use of other useful settings.

Describe the solution you'd like

looks like all settings are handled by the api. make use of local storage instead

[dessalines]

logged out users can't change theme or make use of other useful settings.

This isn't anything I want to support. User settings require a user, and it takes less than a minute to create one and have settings.

looks like all settings are handled by the api. make use of local storage instead

Hard no on this, I intentionally made settings portable, so that they can follow you to whatever device you log in from. I can't stand the localstorage model of having to change your settings for every new browser and device you use.

[leslieriver]

This isn't anything I want to support. User settings require a user, and it takes less than a minute to create one and have settings.

k. agree for all other settings except theming, there is no reason to force a login to use a preferred theme, it's lemmy-ui specific too so it doesn't really make sense to have it in the api anyway.

Hard no on this, I intentionally made settings portable, so that they can follow you to whatever device you log in from. I can't stand the localstorage model of having to change your settings for every new browser and device you use.

fine, you can add a 'BrowserSettings' alongside it though, there are other settings that make sense to be browser specific like #282