Re: Request: Automatically make Subscribers into Authorized Users for private forums

Posted by mattengland on Oct 10, 2008; 1:02pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Request-Automatically-make-Subscribers-into-Authorized-Users-for-private-forums-tp1312563p1316217.html

Will <Nabble> wrote:
>But on the other hand, I do see your point. If the subscriber becomes a
>registered user, and he wants to go to the forum to see stuff, he should
>automatically be able to enter that forum. Is that what you want?

Yep. :)

>One reason is that when you add a subscriber, he may or may not become a
>Nabble user. He could just subscribe and never register, thus accessing
>your forum content entirely from email. So, to us, when you add a
>subscriber, we don't have a user id associated with that subscriber,
>so we can't add a subscriber as as he is a user.
>Does this make sense?

Yep.  My thoughts regarding alternatives:

* Add a checkbox to the 'Add Subscribers' form that provides an option
to auto-enable said subscribers to also become registered users.

However, this starts down the path of cluttering your intereface and
beginning to confuse your users/admins as well as still enabling "modes"
for various subscribers/users (some are email-only, some are not) which
may not be a great design paradigm--alas, maybe only my opinion. Since
Nabble (or at least N2) does such a good job in this arena, it may be
best to follow the good user-interaction conventions y'all present keep
options minimal.  And as such I would advise...

* Consider that it doesn't hurt anything (presumably) to enable
subscribers to be registered users (once they actually register-confirm)
even if they never visit the forum.

This might keep things more simple; fewer users/subscribers with
"different" modes/settings.  Possibly cleaner UI. etc.

Thoughts?