P: Client commenting, rating and liking collections without Adobe ID

Be careful what you ask for !

Zenfolio has a checkbox to allow annomymous comments or to require commenters to be logged in.  In the former case, they may type in thier name in a "Name" textbox  and can also supply their email address if they desire.  I used that option for decades with no problem.  

But, Good old AI has come along and messed everything up.  Apparentlly spammers are now using AI to 'find' web sites that allow comments on images, blogs, and articles.  They then either use those URL's themselves or sell them to others and in either case flood the post, blog or web page comments section with advertising or just lists of random URL's to help the SEO of paying clients of the spammers.  

In the late spring of 2025 I started getting a smattering of such SPAM posts on my blogs.  Fortunatly I had them set to "required approval before being made visible to the public" so I could delete them before they were seen.  This was fine when there were only one or two a day.  Then a few weeks ago, the dam broke and I started getting 50 to 100 a day and the number of specific blogs they were added to blossomed from a dozen or so to pretty much all of my blogs making it very time consuming to look at each one to decide if it was a legitamate posting or SPAM.  So I went through every one of my blogs (over 100 of them) and changed them to required login in order to comment.   I'm sure this will discourage a percentage of legitimate commenters which is infortuante but at least now it has curtailed the SPAM.  

If they didn't need to log in, how would you know who liked them? Even Facebook makes someone log in before liking photos. 

so many years and still not possible? that makes me really sad! i love creating link for my gallery, sending it to my model and let them choose which ones they like. BUT! They either have to have/create account, or they text me numbers of pictures!! both is so stupid! CAN YOU PLEASE MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO LIKE PHOTOS IN GALERY WITHOUT NEED TO LOG IN ?! please! make it optional as "allow downloads" something like "allow anonymous likes and coments" it doesnt have to be default option, please! 😞

What's even the point of this feature if you need an adobe ID and it doesn't give you options to properly sort and organize in Lightroom CC?

 Is this specifically for when I share stuff with another Lightroom user for fun or something? 
how could this ever be used for actual work as is? 

Hello. From time to time, I have photographers express the need to share pictures with clients, for review, comments, or even selection.
And since it happens every once in a while, I ALWAYS forget THIS MAJOR DRAWBACK: to comment or like a Lightroom galery, your client MUST be connected, via an email, an adobe ID, a google/Apple/FB/Msft account…

And WHY do I FORGET? because that's not the case in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop, where I can ask logged clients to comment, but I can also ask the client to put just a name.

Of course, there's a "risk" that your link becomes public, and you face a comments attack that way. But how does it happen when the URL address is a random letters string ? That would really be from unluck, negligence, or malevolent person sharing a link.

99.99% of the time, a photographer sharing a link to his own galery shares it to his own known client. And adding an email in that process just kills the motivation.

I wish Lr could be at the same level as Id/Ai/Ps on that matter.

Great point about allowing clients without an Adobe ID to comment and like Lightroom Mobile Collections! This feature would enhance client-photographer interaction and streamline feedback on photo collections. Hope Adobe considers this addition!

Of course you need to personaly know every single human liking your pics in twitter(x), insta, youtube...thats very important🤯 The Lr Apk37075879u3yg

 I guess best solution would be, to let user decidee on their own who to share picturues with!!!  

No, according to my thoughts, you should know the person who is messaging to your message. Adobe ID insures that the person replaying to your photo is this and this that creates a safe invironment in this editng world. moreover, from past two years i had never found even a single demerit in adobe lightroom.

Adobe still doesn't care about their customers in 2023.