Make 'Explorer' public - i.e. don't need to log in to view/use

[sarahrichmond]

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[gweis]

That's a pure UI issue ... Assigning it to James. Let me know if you need help (i.e. not enough time)

[manhinli]

Will probably need to reorganise how we handle the public/authenticated workflows because users who get to Ecocloud at the moment will encounter the sign in prompt - if I just enable the Explorer to be public, the rest of the site would still prompt to sign in, which is both confusing and annoying as you need the direct URL.

My guess the work involved to properly do this is:

• menu bar will be consistent and always present regardless of authenticated status
• make or repurpose a page/view as the landing page for app.ecocloud
  • make Dashboard public but hide non-relevant content?
  • make a separate page altogether only for non authenticated users that becomes a landing page?
• make Explorer public (the contents of this ticket)
• other pages will probably need to be slightly restructured to "exist" when not authenticated but not render content when not signed in, so that users can still continue to navigate around
• some parts of existing Explorer would need to be adjusted to be hidden or otherwise unavailable for non-authenticated users (e.g. link to notebook from snippets)

Also: Is this currently a priority? (Just asking due to the reference to possibly "not enough time")