The discussion revolves around the invite flow for social logins in Discourse. Jack_Ukleja wants to minimize friction for users joining his forum from Facebook, but the invite system asks for a password and doesn’t present a social login option. pfaffman suggests turning off local logins or customizing the language to clarify that users can skip the password.
simon finds that if a user accepts an invitation without entering a password, they can log out and log back in through a social login provider. codinghorror offers two options to address the issue: hiding the password field via CSS or educating users that they don’t need to enter a password.
CamilleRoux shares a screenshot of the invitation page, which lacks social login options and has other issues. However, codinghorror explains that social logins are irrelevant on that page, as it’s a special purpose invite tied to the account creator.
uffehe agrees that allowing users to sign up with social accounts after receiving an email invitation would improve signup rates, but notes the challenge of inviting users to specific groups with email addresses that may not match their social accounts.
I’m trying to minimize friction for users joining my forum. These users are migrating from Facebook.
Unfortunately the Discourse invite system appears to ask for password and doesn’t present an option for a social login at the point of accepting the invite.
I’m aware that the password is marked as (optional), but I don’t think everyone will notice this and hence they will perhaps will be put off.
Also if they don’t put in a password what is the flow that get’s them to the point they can associate a social media login? I think unless this is upfront the users will perceive the site as one that needs “Yet Another Password”
Maybe turn off local logins? I’m not sure about the invite flow, can’t the click the Facebook login, or you’re saying that on account creation it asks for password?
You could customize the language to say something that makes it clearer that your can skip it.
I just tried this out. If a user accepts an invitation and does not enter a password when accepting the invite, they can log out of the site, then log back in through a social login provider. I tested this with Facebook login.
Hide that field via CSS overrides on your site so users don’t have any opportunity to enter a password
Educate your users that they don’t need to enter a password, either just in time (by using CSS rules to add text on that invite accept page), or by modifying the invite email text in Admin, Customize, Text.
I’m not sure I follow – social logins are irrelevant on that page because you are in the middle of completing a new account signup. That invite page isn’t meant to be extremely widely shared as it is a special purpose invite tied to your account, as the person who created the invite link. If you want to widely share a general login link, try:
Just came across this, and I agree that signup rates would likely improve if people were able to sign up with a social account after receiving an email invitation. Many ‘occasional’ users are reluctant to sign up with email and password because it’s another password they have to remember.
We typically invite people to specific groups, so I can see the challenge in inviting them using email, and they then sign up using a social account that may not have the same email address etc. At the same time, it would certainly remove a lot of friction in getting occasional users to sign up.
