Add invites filter to notification menu, change invite icon to pointing hand

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A discussion is ongoing about improving the usability of the invite feature on Discourse. tobiaseigen reported that moderators find the current invite button and notification confusing, specifically the hand pointing right icon. To address this, tobiaseigen suggested adding a filter for invite notifications to the notifications menu and changing the invite icon to the hand pointing right to reinforce its purpose.

In response, codinghorror proposed that when a user enters a username, the button glyph should change from an email symbol to a pointing hand. codinghorror confirmed that the update was successful, and techAPJ implemented the change via a GitHub commit. The update was well-received by tobiaseigen, who thanked techAPJ for the implementation.

Continuing the discussion from User Invitation/Poking a user to a topic is now live!:

I’m confronted by some confused users (moderators, actually) who want to use the invite button and find it confusing. We will have to update the email template so I’m glad that’s possible.

But when the invite appears on the notification pulldown people don’t understand what the hand pointing right means. And also invite notifications cannot be filtered by on the notifications page.

So it would be helpful to add a line to that notifications menu providing a filter for invite notifications, which also at the same time tells users what that hand pointing right is for. It could go between the mentions and edits.

Meanwhile also suggest changing the INVITE icon from a group icon to the hand pointing right, to reinforce what happens when you invite people.

Cheers! :beers:

I see one use, @techapj when the user enters a username, change the glyph on the button from email to the pointing hand, like so:

Can you add that to the old to-do list? I know it is quite long now…

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Done via

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/23c1c5ef19a3483faf05eddcf0f717d90a98d04d

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:point_right: looks good

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nicely done. thanks! :rocket: