# User Invitation/Poking a user to a topic is now live!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-invitation-poking-a-user-to-a-topic-is-now-live/27180>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2015年四月4日 00:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-invitation-poking-a-user-to-a-topic-is-now-live/27180 "2015-04-04T00:27:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2015年四月4日 00:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-invitation-poking-a-user-to-a-topic-is-now-live/27180/1 "2015-04-04T00:27:04Z")

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> ⚠ As of March 2022, the ability to notify a user from the share button on a topic has been removed. See [Notify Feature can be easily abused](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-feature-can-be-easily-abused/219497) for more details.

The Invite feature has just been improved so that **you can invite existing users to a topic**.

I still think this is kind of a weird use case, since if I want @techapj to look at something I would just mention him in the post and explain what’s going on.

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/3/137a02a96f9eeb4637a32f3ef5a910ce85189b96.jpg)

But! It makes the Invite button more useful and applicable in more cases beyond inviting new users via email, so overall, I am for it. (Note that invites are a trust level 2 ability, you’ll need TL2 to have the invite button at all.)

Here’s how it works:

- If you invite an `email address` to the topic, they get an email invite that lets them join as a new user and reply to the topic immediately.

- If you invite a `username` to a topic, they get a notification from you with a link to the topic.

Note that you can only invite someone to a topic once per day. So if 50 people suddenly try to invite me to this topic, only the first one will succeed. 😉

Anyway, thanks to @techapj for implementing this. Try it out and see what you think.

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