User blog comment:Mira Laime/Those Weird Things on the Internet/@comment-26500846-20180627195553/@comment-26339491-20180627202311

That's true - one of the perks of making an account is that you'll be able to receive notifications. Notifications for logged-out users would be difficult to impossible to implement. We can only hope that those who care enough follow up on their first contribution and eventually make an account to be able to contribute more.