I have an invite only site and I’m interested in growing my members by allowing my members to invite others. I understand there is the invite to topic feature, but is there a way for my users to send general invites?

Okay let me explain when all the invites won’t work for a user. If user’s maximum invites per day is reached. (staff are immune to this limitation) If SSO enabled. If local logins are disabled. If must approve users setting enabled. (staff are immune to this limitation) If user has trust level below 2. (staff are immune to this limitation)

It doesn’t, actually; staff are in charge of the site, otherwise you have friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend effect.

Indeed, but I can imagine situations where that’d be completely appropriate. And whoever wrote the description apparently agreed with me. :slight_smile:

An option for allowing members of certain TL (or even with a certain badge) on a closed community would be a great development. Would it be feasible to have this developed as a plugin or is that walking too close to the permissions of Discourse? My alternative was to embed a form for invite requests, we just liked the idea of Discourse tracking all invites.

Here’s a contrivance. You could allow anyone to join, but have no read-only categories. People would have to be added to a group to be able to get to the Good Stuff. People would have to know to join a group to see the stuff. You’d need to think through that, but you could assign lots of people to be group owners who’d be able to add more users.

Or just create a “please invite these people” topic, in a category that only TL2 members can see. If people post in they are TL2 by definition (or set up whatever category permissions you prefer), and staff can edit the request posts to put a :white_check_mark: next to those they invited.

Thanks for the suggestions I’ll have to talk to my partner and see what he thinks. If anyone happens to think of any other possible solutions I’d be happy to hear them!

:rolling_eyes: I am totally confused with this topic. Ignore me if I am wrong. Anyway just now I tested invite functionality in my localhost and it is working fine with below criteria. Enabled the invite only SiteSetting Enabled the login required SiteSetting Created a new member using console Promoted the new user to TL2 Now I am able to send invitation as that new user. Even it is working while both or either one SiteSetting disabled. I can’t understand why it is not working for you. Do you have SSO enabled? [image] codinghorror: It doesn’t, actually; staff are in charge of the site, otherwise you have friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend effect. Currently only TL2 users can send invites. So no harm when we welcome friend-of-a-TL2-friend-of-a-TL2-friend-of-a-TL2-friend :slight_smile:

Dunno, the OP will need to confirm if SSO was enabled.

SSO is not enabled nor is login required.

What about enable local logins SiteSetting? It says “Enable local username and password login based accounts. (Note: this must be enabled for invites to work)” Update: must approve users SiteSetting doing it. While it enabled staffs can send invites. But not normal users (any TL user) can’t.

Better way for my users to invite others?

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DmitryS (DmitryS) August 26, 2020, 10:25am 34

Hello @shaundefense, have you managed to do that? To create a separated button to show invitation modal?

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