Sms verification

[Bingo (Muhammad Ahmad)]

Hello,
I’m not able to find any plugin for user verification with sms/call but I’ve seen it on some discourse based forums

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

My guess would be that they’re using their own login provider as an SSO method for Discourse… so that verification is happening outside of Discourse.

Note that SMS isn’t generally considered secure due to sim swap attacks.

SIM swap scam

[Bingo (Muhammad Ahmad)]

Please check swapd.co they are using it I want to use the same

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Thanks for the link. It appears they built a custom plugin for their site to verify users with Twilio’s sms service. As far as I know this isn’t a publicly available plugin.

[Bingo (Muhammad Ahmad)]

Can you suggest another verification than sms to verify client is legit

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

What do you mean by legit? I guess I need more information on what you’re trying to achieve through verification.

Are you trying to make creating new accounts more difficult for spammers/attackers? Are you trying to make individual accounts more secure (Discourse has 2-factor authentication built-in)?

[Bingo (Muhammad Ahmad)]

Yes I want to make difficult to sign up for spammers

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Are you doing this for an existing forum, or for a new one?

I ask because Discourse already has a lot of protections in place to make things more annoying for spammers. So if you’re starting a new site you may find that you don’t need additional verification.

For example, you can restrict permissions on new users so they can’t post links or images until they’ve used the site for a little while. You also have the option to configure Akismet for your forum, which will scan all new posts and user bios for spam, and automatically flag possible spam posts for review.

There’s also a third-party plugin that integrates with Stop Forum Spam

Stop Forum Spam Plugin (auto silence known spammers)

Overview The Stop Forum Spam plugin (unofficial) can help weed out human spammers who are able to bypass Discourse’s built-in spam tools (thanks to their awesome human powers). Right after a new user signs up on your forum (before they have time to post), this plugin will check the user’s email address, forum username, and/or IP address (depending on your plugin settings) against the Stop Forum Spam database. If the user is found in this database of known spammers, their user account will be imm…

[Bingo (Muhammad Ahmad)]

Actually I want to create paid membership forum where user have to pay to create account and must needed to verified that the user is 100% real and legit not spammer
Can you suggest on this?
I’m sorry for this questions but I’m new with discourse

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Oh I see, There are a couple of options that allow you to take payment and associate it with forum membership.

• You can integrate with Memberful

• Use the Patreon plugin: Discourse Patreon Integration

• Or you could set up a Wordpress site to take payments via a Wordpress plugin and manage users that way: Managing Discourse group membership with WP Discourse

We’re planning to add a way to accept payments within Discourse directly in the future, but don’t have an exact date yet.