The meeting organizer is an admin and he really needed to send the message out yesterday, so he just added all 23 people by hand (typing their name and waiting for the dialog to appear and so on). I’m sure he won’t be excited to do this again, so some kind of improved UX here would be welcome.
A little bit of background: We usually have meeting data (names & emails) from Zoom’s registration. Typically we use Airtable’s SendGrid integration for follow-up messages (link to the recording, useful resources, etc.). In this case, we wanted to have a follow-up conversation to decide next step steps about something.
So, the question can be generalized thusly: what’s a good way of going from a list of emails to a PM in Connect (to avoid using email as a “discussion platform”). For our case, anyone who would need to do this would either be an admin, or of sufficient responsibility in the org that I’d be happy to give them staff rights. So hopefully that removes the legal issue.
More background: When folks sign up to our website they give us consent to share their emails with other members of our higher education consortium for the purposes of event follow-ups, developing collaborations, etc. We realized while we were retooling our processes for GDPR that these are such common use cases for us that we had request this upfront. But obviously this won’t be the case in most Discourse sites.
Pasting usernames, as Jeff suggested, would be a helpful feature but not one that would serve us in this case.