Tracking signups from shared content

貢献 特徴
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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 )

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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?

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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.

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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
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Sure, but this is stretch-goal territory.

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?

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I want to do this.

How does the sponsorship work?

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I’ll send you a pm about it.

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この機能は本番環境に導入されましたか？ :slight_smile: 私も非常に興味があります。

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最近、@sam さん、招待機能の大幅な見直しを行いました。この件を優先順位付けしたいですか？

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元の投稿（OP）自体は私たちが実施しているものではありませんが、その概念が伝えようとしているのは以下の通りです：

  1. 私が共有します：https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-signups-from-referral/56911?u=sam

  2. セッションに「Samがこの人をサイトに招待した」という情報を保存します。

  3. その後、そのユーザーがアカウントを作成します。

  4. アカウントが「Sam」に帰属付けられます。

技術的には実装は難しくありません。@codinghorror 氏であれば、細かい点や UI の整合性を整えるのに約 1 週間程度の作業で済むでしょう。いつこの機能を優先順位付けしたいか、またはいつ着手したいかをお知らせください。

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はい、ご clarification ありがとうございます。それは私たちが想定していた範囲を少し超えていますね。私は投稿を共有することは、明示的な招待ではなく、暗黙的な招待だと捉えています。

主に、相手が招待を受け入れた場合に、明示的な招待が追跡されるようにしたいと考えています。

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