Invites

[Matt Molyneaux]

When registration is closed it is sometimes still desirable to allow new users to join. Other software solves this issue with invite links that can be given out. It would be nice if Inboxen had the same feature and I think that's a must for someone wanting to set up a private instance.

• a new admin view to create and manage invite links
• invite links should have the following options:
  • a maximum number of uses
  • an expiry date
  • should not allow making an invite without a maximum or maximum uses
• invite should only used up once a user has successfully registered
• user profile should have FK to invite for counting purposes. that won't scale well but if you have that many users just open registration already counting needs be done some other way, otherwise invite links could become reactivated if a user deletes their accont

[Jessica Tallon]

Do you imagine this would be something you'd allow all users to do or would this be limited to the admins of the instance? (possibly both)

[Matt Molyneaux]

I imagined this to be admin only.