# Poor user experience with 'Invite-only' 'Login required'

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/poor-user-experience-with-invite-only-login-required/417454>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [14 בנובמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poor-user-experience-with-invite-only-login-required/417454 "2026-11-14T16:42:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)\
**Post date:** [14 בנובמבר,‏ 2026,‏ 8:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/poor-user-experience-with-invite-only-login-required/417454/5 "2026-11-14T20:25:26Z")

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Are you on the [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) Free plan by any chance? this seems like a gap in our Discourse ID flow for logging in on Free sites.

Typically when “invite only” is enabled, registration is disabled entirely so you can’t reach that account creation flow.

But our Free plan requires Discourse ID as its auth system, which is a separate centralized Discourse registration system that isn’t directly controlled by your site.

So what happens is someone creates a Discourse ID, then _that_ account gets sent back to log in to your site. Without invite-only this is somewhat invisible to the user, but when invite-only is enabled they can successfully create a new Discourse ID account, and hit a wall when directed back to your site.

We should check for invite-only before sending people to the Discourse ID signup process so we can prevent this sort of annoyance.

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