Encourage people to invite their friends to Trustroots

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Encourage people to invite their friends to Trustroots #947

Closed petr-hajek closed 4 years ago

petr-hajek commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I want to invite my friends to TR. Currently I need to copy the link and write them an email.

Describe the solution you'd like

Adding link to the user menu (under Account).
This could reuse the previous invite page but without the information that TR is invite only.
It'd send message with a link just to trustroots.org
User could send it to several email addresses (up to 10?)

Add links to discussion on Slack (or Discourse). https://trustroots.slack.com/archives/C08SENA9Z/p1544464961044100

simison commented 5 years ago

Stats for the AddThis widget when we had it (for like a year):

I guess folks these days don't really use email anymore. :-)

simison commented 5 years ago

Previously merged PR with the JS code for the AddThis stuff:

https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/874/files

And the invite-page template that still seems to be there:

https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/blob/b9df354a1214f9babe2320014967ba8fa20709e0/modules/users/client/views/invite.client.view.html

petr-hajek commented 5 years ago

Yea, maybe we could build on it later on with invitations in messages to other platforms, like FB. Thinking about it, it's about the same work to copy TR url to your email as to copy email address to TR...

simison commented 5 years ago

Thinking about it, it's about the same work to copy TR url to your email as to copy email address to TR...

😆 It does have some value though since it might work as a reminder or initiator to do that share that they might not otherwise do.

That said, we might get more shares like this when showing the share-buttons in more strategic places — a person does an action and something shows up and nudges them to share the tribe with their friends. Some example actions:

joins a tribe
writes their first message
adds their first contact

Spontaneous shares might indeed already work just fine without any features at the site, just like you wrote above. There's also some value in having one feature less in our codebase. :-)

simison commented 5 years ago

Renamed the issue title to reflect a bit more intent rather than specific task.

guaka commented 5 years ago

Great place to have this after:

leaves a positive reference
receives a positive reference

comradekingu commented 5 years ago

Bulk-sending invite e-mails is going to get the MX banned everywhere. I find there to be nothing wrong with sending e-mails, or whatever other method of communication one uses. If you say "trustroots", chances are the person can find it.

The only benefit I can see is having them added as a friend on Trustroots automatically.

Fortunately, if it is good enough, the math means you don't have to share it to as many people, very soon everyone in current existence will have it.

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