Hi, I’d like to also request that there be a feature for staff invites to bypass the approval step, perhaps by an optional boolean on the Invite generation dialog.
At present, the “Share this link to instantly grant access to the site” simply isn’t true at all for sites which are must_approve_users.
The solution would seem to be as discussed in “option 4” here in the topic which discussed the bug which fixed the security issue but left us with this problem with ‘pre-approving’ an invite link.
To recap, this request is so that staff on a must_approve_users site can create an invite link which will bypass the approval step. Although the site I run is requires approval, we would sometimes like to be able to ‘pre-approve’ users via an invite link which we know is going to be shared privately to trusted individuals, or when we share the link at a physical event which is related to the forum community. (We don’t necessarily know the preferred email addresses of such invitees so can’t use a bulk invite)