# What are the drawbacks of writing add-on without authentication? **URL:** \ **Category:** Confluence Cloud\ **Tags:** authentication, atlassian-connect\ **Created:** [July 24, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/what-are-the-drawbacks-of-writing-add-on-without-authentication/50231 "2021-07-24T19:28:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![stephendeutsch1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/atlassiandeveloper/user_avatar/community.developer.atlassian.com/stephendeutsch1/32/42625_2.png) [@stephendeutsch1](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/u/stephendeutsch1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2021, 9:02am UTC](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/what-are-the-drawbacks-of-writing-add-on-without-authentication/50231/3 "2021-07-25T09:02:53Z")
I agree with Remie, but you should be aware of this Confluence issue related to searching for users (user search returns 0 users, not sure if it has been fixed or not): > [@Users cannot be found through AP.request(‘/rest/api/search’) and AP.request(‘/rest/api/search/user’) anymore](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/users-cannot-be-found-through-ap-request-rest-api-search-and-ap-request-rest-api-search-user-anymore/41281): > > For some time, we have get some requests from our clients, that our application has stopped working, and more specifically: the user search functionality (this is one of the core functionality our application). After a deeper analysis, I noticed that the functionality, that has been working for almost 2 years suddenly always returns 0 results. This is the REST, which we are used: AP.request(‘/rest/api/search?limit=10&cql=user.fullname~’${fullname}’’) also we are tried this query: AP.request… In order to work around this issue, we were forced to add authentication to a few of our apps, even though they would not have required it otherwise. Other than that, no major drawbacks, and it does not affect paid apps. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/what-are-the-drawbacks-of-writing-add-on-without-authentication/50231)._