# Optional global invite code

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/optional-global-invite-code/144376>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** new-feature, invites\
**Created:** [March 15, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optional-global-invite-code/144376 "2020-03-15T10:25:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optional-global-invite-code/144376/21 "2020-03-16T00:01:19Z")

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First suggestion is invite tracking only? Yeah, sure. Username w/o token shouldn’t grant TL1 because usernames are public info.

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Second, you should be able to **generate invite links with no email** from the same place you send invites, per the above ☝… this completely resolves the “but I don’t know their email addresses 😿” problem.

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/2/d27b61a20d44de9c3fe6c1ab83f4ac4eb3409653.png)

May I suggest that these links take the form of `https://meta.discourse.org/signup?u=codinghorror&token=3ojk6WTY` to mirror the first part 🙂

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> And if your site has approvals, then the secret password lets you skip approval too. If you don’t have approvals, you can’t get in without the secret password…

👍 didn’t think of that. Going to be tricky to document, but that’s how the settings should interact.

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