Adding new users vs inviting them

I don’t really want to synchronize users; we have 50,000+ of them.

Simply put the use case is:

  • Steve wants a private category that includes 5 people

Right now the workflow is:

  • Steve creates a group with 1 - 5 members, depending on who has already logged into discourse
  • Steve creates a category with access to that group
  • Steve emails the people, says “Please log in”
  • Steve checks discourse every day, needs to add people to the group as they show up