Allow invites to direct to a Category

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

@tobiaseigen

Does this mean that you are satisfied with the way invite-to-topic works currently?

Yup - invite to topic works just fine. I confess that I don’t actually use it much though, and instead use Custom Wizard Plugin 🧙 to have a joining wizard to allocate them to a specific group and then use the groups to give a softly tailored view via permissions and watching.

I have also tinkered with this theme-component for a harder tailoring in specific situations. It is an evolution of @merefield’s plugin up above:

Custom Homepage for Groups

Overview When installed and added to the active theme, this theme component enables you to control the ‘homepage’, allowing it to be different from the set of pages Discourse allows by default, as well as having different groups have different “homepages” (e.g., group members care only or mostly about a particular category). This can be for all users, anon (non-logged in), mobile users, or according to a user’s primary group. Initially developed by @pfaffman. See User-specific Discourse home pag…

Improvements

@tobiaseigen

Do you have any update from your community on how this is working for them and if it can be improved?

Well, since you ask, there is a current issue that prevents us from effectively using both invites and public registration at the same time which I’d really like to have addressed:

Allow users invited by staff to skip approval

When a new user joins via an invite link, I’m finding that I also need to approve the user at the moment. This defeats the whole purpose of an invitation; I may as well just send them the link to the forum. I’ve tried this for a variety of situations (new link, old link, single person, multiple) on more than one instance, and it is the same. I’ve got /admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=must_approve_users TRUE for these instances. It seems to be taking it a bit too literally! I wa…