This is a UX improvement request regarding:
At the moment, hitting 
results in the link being displayed and selected - but not copied to the clipboard. That is annoying, as clutzy users like me forget to ‘ctrl-c’ or similar, and then end up pasting the invitees email address where the link was intended.
When sharing in Google Docs, it behaves as I suggest - and it is much nicer. Should we copy them in this?
Forcing items into the clipboard without user action is considered a destructive act, as it erases the current clipboard. I don’t think browsers are allowed to do that.
However, expressing intent to see the copyable link could be user consent, depending on the UI…
I think that’s his point — a button labeled “copy link” implies just that, the actual copy action. Versus e.g. “generate link” or “show link”.
But yeah this is getting to be a common pattern now, one click actually copying directly to clipboard to save the ctrl-C. Not essential but if a button says “copy link” that’s now what I’d expect it to do.
Absolutely - the user is expecting it to copy the link to the clipboard, and is annoyed (at least I am) when it doesn’t.
I’ll update the button label to “Generate Invite Link”. That makes more sense here.
I agree that this makes it clearer. However, it doesn’t eliminate the additional step for the user.
Also, why would anyone ever want to generate a link but not copy it?
Time to flex a Discourse feature:
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