No login wall for visitors
The site stays open: visits are attributed with tagged links and cookieless analytics, and visitors introduce themselves only if they choose to.
Context
The owner wants to know who is looking at the site. A login in front of a portfolio stops exactly the visitors worth knowing about — a recruiter with thirty seconds will not create an account to read a CV.
Decision
The site stays open. Visits are attributed with tagged links (?r=company) and cookieless analytics;
visitors can introduce themselves voluntarily through a form that uses the draft → confirm pattern. Google
Sign-In exists only for the owner's admin panel.
Consequences
- No cookie banner is needed; IPs are stored only as salted hashes.
- Attribution depends on the owner tagging the links they send — cheap and more precise than a login.