BoingBoing bbs's invitation feature

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Can someone explain the invitation feature to me?

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Iā€™d start here.

ETA: This oneā€™s probably better.

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Thanks :blush:

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I canā€™t understand what weā€™d use it for here, but Discourse is not building just for happy mutants.

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I only asked because I donā€™t remember ever seeing it before on my profile, and when I checked the badges it said none had been awarded yet. It left me a little befuddled.

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I guess I never really thought about the fact that bbs is technically a separate service from boingboing and created by a private company. Its definitely the best forum setup I have ever run across, which makes me wonder what other online entities are using Discourseā€¦ but I guess thatā€™s a different topic. Anyways thanks for the quick response, I definitely feel like my question got answered. Thanks for being so helpful!

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Trumpā€™s people.

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you have to have achieved trust level 3 (regular) status before it appears. is it possible you only recently reached that trust level?

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He appears to be TL2, though he could have formerly been TL3. If heā€™s not TL3 though, he wonā€™t even see the option.

But we can all see all the possible badges, like he said.

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I am not currently trust level 3 as @slybevel pointed out, and I have never been at trust level 3. However I definitely have a invite option that is fully visible, I thought it might be a error so I invited a old alt email, it worked. I am now officially further confused, halp me.

Edit- Proof: (Iā€™m sorry about the image share links, its the only way I know to share images on mac) http://prntscr.com/88x3cm http://prntscr.com/88x49e

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lol paging @codinghorror

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Invites are TL2 ability and always have beenā€¦

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I luv you.

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We also added a ā€œcopy linkā€ button to the invite dialog if youā€™d prefer to have invite links you can mail yourself, rather than having us email on your behalf, etc.

Reminder that

  • invites create an account on click, so the recipient can post immediately without having to go through the motions of signing up

  • people invited this way are attached to your account on the invites page

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Do you have any stats on how much ā€˜invitesā€™ get used?

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ā€œZip on this siteā€, I believe is the answer. I seem to recall this being answered in the ā€˜Cancel my
Accountā€™ thread.

Boing has it enabled, but literally no-one uses it, and thatā€™s why no-one has the badge. Be the first!

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That badge is relatively new, so it may not capture historic use.

The concept is you want your (presumably interested in topic X) buddy to reply to a topic that you know will be of interest to them, so they can click the link and post as soon as they arrive.

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Just tried to invite myself, but the link in the email just gives a blank page.

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Link no worky.

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I just saw the error log, and it seems like the email address you provided had double underscore in sequence (__). This broke the username generation code.

This is a valid bug and I have added this issue on my to-do list.

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