Please make tl for sending invites customisable

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The discussion revolves around a feature request to make the trust level (TL) for sending invites customizable. Currently, the term “Trusted User” (TU) has different meanings in site settings, causing confusion. gh_irina proposes adding a feature to allow site administrators to set a custom TL for sending invites or making TU always mean TL3 and above.

sam agrees that this feature makes sense and suggests adding a pr-welcome tag. However, codinghorror responds that this is not typically how feature requests are handled. riking chimes in, mentioning that this request has been made multiple times over the years.

After internal discussion, sam announces that the team supports adding two site settings: min trust to allow invite and min trust to allow pm invite. gh_irina requests that the first setting be implemented in version 2.5.

Jahan_gagan offers to create a pull request (PR) for this feature. sam encourages this and emphasizes the need for thorough testing. After some discussion about the implementation details, sam suggests simplifying the feature to a single site setting: min_trust_level_to_allow_invite.

Ultimately, jahan_gagan announces that a PR for this feature has been merged into the master branch: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10984

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Hi,

The problem I am currently having is that trusted user (TU) means two different things in site settings.

In “Trusted user can edit others”, TU means tl3 or above.
But in “new users must be explicitly invited by trusted users or staff.”, TU means tl2 or above.

We want our site to be invite-only. And we specifically want only tl3 and above to be able to send invites for reasons I shan’t go into here.

:arrow_right: Can a feature please be added so that the tl for sending invites is customisable?
(Alternatively, please make TU always mean only tl3 and above. It’s very confusing having the same words mean two different things.)

Thank you!

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Custom Trust Level
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I think it makes sense to allow fidelity around trust level required to invite @codinghorror should we add a pr-welcome on this?

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Based on this single request? That’s not usually how we do things.

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There’s been a lot of requests for this over the years. It especially makes sense for the first month of a no-import migration.

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Discussed internally and we support adding 2 site setting in a PR (containing tests)

  1. min trust to allow invite
  2. min trust to allow pm invite

Added pr-welcome here in case the community want to fast track this, otherwise we will probably get to it in 2.5 or 2.6

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Who can invite new users? Can I configure that?
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Please do 1. min trust to allow invite in 2.5!
Thank you.

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what I understood is

  1. You want site admin to set the trust level to send invites (eg: drop-down to select the trust level and that trust level user will be allowed to send invites)
  2. The similar setting for sending pm invites

and both of these settings are currently hardcoded which needs to be made dynamic

I’m interested to make a PR for this

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Yes that is about it, also needs to be carefully tested! Go for it.

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@sam I think this line handles both(regular topics and PMs invite). I think it would make more sense to create a common setting for PMs and Topics and a separate one for forum invites? What do you think?

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Sorry we left this in the air for so long… Yeah in the spirit of simplicity maybe just a single site setting min_trust_level_to_allow_invite then we don’t need to explain about all the different flavors of invite.

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A pr for this is merged to the master

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10984

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