# Have the invite screen show if a user exists before hitting send vs after

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-the-invite-screen-show-if-a-user-exists-before-hitting-send-vs-after/71648>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 9, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-the-invite-screen-show-if-a-user-exists-before-hitting-send-vs-after/71648 "2017-10-09T02:40:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/have-the-invite-screen-show-if-a-user-exists-before-hitting-send-vs-after/71648/1 "2017-10-09T02:40:42Z")

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In the past, if I invited someone to a forum, it would change the email to the username, letting me know that the user existed.

Today, this wasn’t the case and I sent a nice invite to a user including a message of how to join.

The view looks exactly the same if the email address existed, or not.

 ![screenshot_4869](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/8/c83dbb203a6ccb13dbe369e67a59fd3ee65ab459.png)

Becomes this, _after_ I hit send.

 ![screenshot_4868](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/2/2210fbbeba3ea7a9bfd086c8783981bf25621110.png)

Because I’m going to be told if the email address is in use or not, being told before I send the invite would a much better experience.