I’ve been testing with the ‘Invite-only’ ‘Login required’ settings enabled and the flow doesn’t make sense to me at all. What I don’t like is that it takes someone through the entire sign-up process, email confirmation and all, prompting them to fill out their profile and all - and then at the end it hits them with invite-only. That’s a total waste of someone’s time, a bad user experience, and makes no sense at all. I went back & forth with the ‘AI Assistant’, but it’s just going around in circles agreeinf that it’s a bad user experience, but it’s still stumped for any solution. So if an actual person can chime in on this issue, I’d appreciate it.

There is an upcoming change, enable local logins via code. It’s currently in beta status, so it is enabled by default. Did you try disabling that? There is a chance the experience is better with it disabled. I have a similar problem on my forum, where signing up with an invite code doesn’t work because email isn’t sent to the user at all.

I don’t see exactly what you’re referring to. But I do see “Enable local logins via email”, and no, I don’t have that checked. The closest thing I see that sounds like what your referring to is where it says ‘Invite only’ (which I have the box checked), and under it, it says ‘Invite code’ (which I left empty).

[תמונה] Multimastery: The closest thing I see that sounds like what your referring to is where it says ‘Invite only’ (which I have the box checked), and under it, it says ‘Invite code’ (which I left empty). I think that you might look into this: [תמונה] Easier account signup using email codes Announcements Discourse communities can now let users log in using a short emailed code instead of a magic link, offering a passwordless login flow which feels familiar to many other SaaS platforms and works alongside your existing second-factor setup. In this topic, we’ll review the major changes and share how you can start using this today. microscope What’s changed When this feature is enabled, members see a simpler flow: [Screenshot 2026-07-08 at 17.56.16]: They enter an email address and click C… Then install and enable this plugin, for avoid unnecessary friction (just keep in mind that bots can get into your community easily): [תמונה] GitHub - INSIinc/discourse_skip_email_verification Contribute to INSIinc/discourse_skip_email_verification development by creating an account on GitHub.

Are you on the discourse.org Free plan by any chance? this seems like a gap in our Discourse ID flow for logging in on Free sites. Typically when “invite only” is enabled, registration is disabled entirely so you can’t reach that account creation flow. But our Free plan requires Discourse ID as its auth system, which is a separate centralized Discourse registration system that isn’t directly controlled by your site. So what happens is someone creates a Discourse ID, then that account gets sent back to log in to your site. Without invite-only this is somewhat invisible to the user, but when invite-only is enabled they can successfully create a new Discourse ID account, and hit a wall when directed back to your site. We should check for invite-only before sending people to the Discourse ID signup process so we can prevent this sort of annoyance.

Poor user experience with 'Invite-only' 'Login required'

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satonotdead 14 בנובמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 6:36pm 4

I think that you might look into this:

Then install and enable this plugin, for avoid unnecessary friction (just keep in mind that bots can get into your community easily):

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Easier account signup using email codes Announcements login , signup	50	2748	21 באוקטובר,‏ 2026
Invitations not working on Discourse free plan when site is invite-only Product Support invites , free-plan	4	339	12 בפברואר,‏ 2026
User can login without confirming activation mail Feature	5	1025	31 בינואר,‏ 2018
Invite Only with OpenID only does not work Bug openid-connect	3	299	20 בינואר,‏ 2026
Pre-approving new users when local login is disabled Product Support	10	1877	22 באוגוסט,‏ 2019

Poor user experience with 'Invite-only' 'Login required'

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