A user, watchmanmonitor, encountered an issue where a user’s email address appeared in the “pending approval” list despite having a pending invitation. watchmanmonitor expected the pending invitation to automatically approve the user’s account.
techAPJ agreed with this expectation and fixed the issue via a pull request.
After upgrading his self-hosted forum, watchmanmonitor requested a task to clean up pending invites that match active users. However, codinghorror suggested manual cleanup for now, thanking watchmanmonitor for bringing the issue to their attention.
I invited a user to my hosted forum, and now I see his email address in my users pending approval. How can this be?
I don’t really know how he found out the forum URL without clicking the invitation link , but even if he registered fresh, I’d like to think that the pending invitation from a matching email address would act as an approval for his pending account.
PS I can certainly wait until Monday while to approve Mark, while the team looks into this.
Agreed. Fixed via:
Awesome! I just upgraded my self hosted forum, where I have about 300 invites.
I see that a few match current users, could we get a task to clean up some of my pending invites which are no longer needed, since they match active users?
I suggest cleaning those up manually for now. Thanks for staying on top of this so we could fix it!