Optional global invite code

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

@codinghorror

I think we had pure URL based invites (no email required) in the past

Yes, we still have that feature around wrapped in a plugin:

Generating lots of Invite Tokens

This plugin is deprecated in favour of our core invite system. Summary: Generate multiple invite tokens GitHub: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-invite-tokens Install: Follow the plugin installation guide. Configuration Enable plugin After installing plugin enable site setting invite tokens enabled. Clone Discourse API Gem If you already have Git and Ruby installed on your system, you can install Discourse API by running following command from con…

The URL will be of the form: http://discourse.example.com/invite-token/redeem/TOKEN?username=USERNAME&email=EMAIL&name=NAME&topic=TOPICID

Bare minimum URL should be: http://discourse.example.com/invite-token/redeem/TOKEN?email=EMAIL

@codinghorror

but had to remove them due to security issues

The security issue was that we did not check for the existence of user with the email address provided but now we do in the plugin.