Tracking signups from shared content

[Wil (William)]

Hello

Following my question here I’m suggesting this feature.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-signups-from-referrals/56521/8?u=wil

I think shared content leading to a signup should count as an invitation

I believe users are more likely to share interesting content than send email invitations.

Each time a user lands on Discourse through a ?u=username link and then signs up, this should be counted as an invitation by @username

This could appear like this on the user profile (screen from /users/username/invited/redeemed in french )

Pros

• Able to track influencers based on actual signups not only traffic
• Removing steps to invite people (literally 2 clicks away on any URL)

Cons

• Risk of fake signups (but no incremental risk compared to email invitations)

Who else is interested in this?

Any comments or ideas?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I like this idea, and I don’t think its too hard to implement.

I think if you share a link on twitter that somehow leads to someone signing up you had some influence on the account creation and this should be tracked.

I am putting a pr-welcome on this for now, but we can revise later and see if we add it to a release.

[nbianca (Bianca)]

What exactly is expected here?

From a developer’s point of view:

• include a schema change (to add a referred_by field to table users)
• look for the parameter that says who is the referral and store it in a session
• change sign up mechanism to save the referral field from sessions into the referred_by field

From an administrator’s view of point:

• dashboard with statistics that show the user that brought the most users
• and the user who brought most visitors (did not register an account)

From a user’s view of point:

• can he specify the name of the user that referred him even though he did not do that by giving him a link
• should the part that is used for link sharing to be modified to also include the referral parameter

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@nbianca

can he specify the name of the user that referred him even though he did not do that by giving him a link

Sure, but this is stretch-goal territory.

@nbianca

should the part that is used for link sharing to be modified to also include the referral parameter

Same as above I think, but I’m also not entirely clear on what you’re proposing here. Could you please rephrase, with a bit more detail?

[nbianca (Bianca)]

@erlend_sh

Same as above I think, but I’m also not entirely clear on what you’re proposing here. Could you please rephrase, with a bit more detail?

Nevermind. I did not notice that ?u=<username> part in the links that are shared and thought that this is a requirement as well.

[bholst (Bryan Holst)]

I’d love to see this feature also! This would be extremely useful. Any updates on this?

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

This will likely be part of this year’s GSoC. Stay tuned

[bholst (Bryan Holst)]

Just checking in to see if there are any updates on this?

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

It did not get picked up for GSoC, but if @nbianca or anyone else wants to take this on we’d be happy to sponsor the work.

[Cozdabuch (cosmo)]

Not looking to go off the topic, but my question here seems not far off from this one

Request: add user group to "admin/users" page data

Ok, we are looking to add a custom field column (primary group) in the admin panel/ users tab, users list. (It makes no difference in column order, I just stuck it there in the example where I stitched the pics together I had room) If not under all user tabs, at least under new users tab. This would be what I’m talking about: [IMG_3849] [IMG_3850] Any idea how to add this?

[vikaskedia]

@erlend_sh

It did not get picked up for GSoC, but if @nbianca or anyone else wants to take this on we’d be happy to sponsor the work.

I want to do this.

How does the sponsorship work?

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

I’ll send you a pm about it.

[DiscourseMetrics]

¿Llegó alguna vez esta función a producción? También estoy muy interesado en ella.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Recientemente rehicimos las invitaciones en gran medida, @sam. ¿Quieres que prioricemos esta?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

@Wil

Creo que el contenido compartido que lleva a un registro debería contar como una invitación.

La publicación original (OP) aún no es algo que realicemos; el concepto al que intenta llegar es:

1. Yo comparto: https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-signups-from-referral/56911?u=sam

2. Guardamos algo en la sesión indicando que “Sam trajo a esta persona al sitio”.

3. Más tarde, este usuario crea una cuenta.

4. La cuenta se atribuye a “Sam”.

Técnicamente, no es muy difícil implementarlo. @codinghorror, probablemente se necesitaría alrededor de una semana de trabajo para pulir todos los detalles, la interfaz de usuario y garantizar la consistencia. Avísame si y cuándo quieres que lo incluyamos.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

¡Ah, sí, gracias por la aclaración! Eso se sale un poco de lo que teníamos en mente. Para mí, compartir una publicación es una invitación implícita, no una explícita.

Principalmente, quiero asegurarme de que las invitaciones explícitas se registren si la persona las acepta.