The discussion revolves around the ability for users to request an invite on an invite-only Discourse forum. Vocino wants to allow users who find the forum through search to request an invite. codinghorror mentions that this feature already exists in the form of an approval queue for logins.
However, Pad_Pors points out that in invite-only mode, non-invited users are not allowed to log in or sign up. watchmanmonitor shares relevant settings from their Discourse setup, which uses the “Must Approve Users” feature to manage invitations.
Pad_Pors expresses concern that enabling “Must Approve Users” might revoke access for previous members, but watchmanmonitor reassures that existing users are already approved and enabling this feature should not cause issues. Pad_Pors decides to double-check the warning next to this option and try it out.
My Discourse forum is invite only. I love this but I would like the ability for users that arrive at the forum via search or other means to request an invite.
Currently there’s no obvious way that I can see for a user to gain access to the forum in that way.
They log in, and you approve the logins in the approval queue.
This already exists.
in the invite only mode, it doesn’t seem to allow non-invited users to be able to login/sign up. is there any particular setting for this?
Here are the relevant settings from Discourse I run this fashion:
thanks, so you use must-approve as a way to get invitation.
there’s a very small-huge problem, if i enable the “must approve users”, I will revoke the access of previous-members. is there anyway to inhibit this problem?
The users on your system are already approved (you can see this in their admin pages)
I don’t expect you’d have any issues enabling must-approve on an existing discourse.
thanks and i’ll just do a double check about the warning next to this option in a new topic.
and try it.
