How to make my project read only for anyone?

[tom.francis]

I am wanting to make my Jira project available for read-only (Browse Project) so that anyone, even if they do not have an account, can view the project. However, when following the instructions below it says to set the groups to 'Anyone' however this does is not an option anymore. 

Can anyone offer me any advice on how I can get around this or about how to achieve what I am looking to do. 

Allow anonymous access to projects | Atlassian Support

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Adding the group "anyone" is about anonymous access to issues, it's not about read-only.

But, the doc has not caught up with the Cloud releases.  Look for the group "public" instead of "anyone" now...

[Daniel Ebers]

Hi @tom.francis

adding to what Nic says from the documentation there seems to be the restriction that Free plans do not allow anonymous access. Judging from your tags here in Community you are indeed on a Free plan.

Please compare with the information here:

• What is the Free Jira Cloud plan?
  https://support.atlassian.com/jira-cloud-administration/docs/what-is-the-free-jira-cloud-plan/

One solution could be to upgrade to at least a "Standard" plan (paid) and then to grant the group "public" (like Nic mentioned) browse permissions but nothing else.
This in general allows browsing but not to edit issues - in other words it is a read-only function :)

Regards,
Daniel