Add a "welcome banner" feature

[dcsjapan]

After a newly registered user clicks the link in the confirmation email, the forum should display some sort of welcome message in a banner across the top of the page. This could contain:

• A brief message welcoming the user to the forum.
• One or more messages prompting the user to check out links of interest.

As an example of the second point, the Flarum Community site could prompt users to check out the FAQ and read the Community Guidelines before posting.

Things to consider:

• This would be a good feature to include in the installation package.
• In that case, the default content displayed by the feature would need to be generic.
• It would also need to be easily customizable. Perhaps an editable field in the ACP?

[Mecvak]

This would be a good feature to include in the installation package.

If in core, I would recommend only the very basics of confirming that they had in fact, verified their email, or if a error occurred (like invalid token)

[jordanjay29]

I'd actually really like to see this become a generic function that both Flarum and extensions can use.

[dcsjapan]

Other things to consider:

It would also be a good idea to have provide sort of welcome banner functionality prior to registration, with optional "click to proceed" and "cancel" buttons. This would be useful for things like:

• Mandatory agreement to forum terms and conditions
• COPPA compliance
• European cookie law compliance

... and so on. Not that it might be necessary to display two such banners, e.g. for admins who want their users to agree to terms and conditions and acknowledge the COPPA/cookie compliance, etc.

I imagine this could be implemented as a single banner mechanism extended with either a customizable text entry (for the terms and conditions) or boilerplate text (for the compliance notices).

The same banner mechanism could also be extended to welcome the user who has clicked the email confirmation link; in this case it would need to include a confirmation/error message as @Mecvak says, but I don't see any reason why we couldn't also offer admins the ability to customize the welcome message somewhat to suit their forum's needs.

[meetdilip]

I would like to update this issue with my Flarum community posts

Burning Board had this nice feature which allows you to display notices on home page, forums, dashboard etc for guests, members, user group/s etc. This is done via ACP. Would be great to see it on Flarum. Helps a lot for notices like " guests, please register " , notices to user groups, banned members etc.

not just a welcome notice, but an extensive notice system. Interesting idea to include new member user group. Something like 0-5 posts members.

[Ralkage]

@dcsjapan COPPA compliance is usually associated by DOB/Age, but Flarum does not require those fields. I've seen some Flarum installs custom add Cookie Law compliance, but it would really be nice as more of an "option" in the core.

[dcsjapan]

@Ralkage To handle COPPA, it would probably be good if the "welcome banner" feature leveraged age information handled by a "custom profile fields" extension.

... I'm pretty sure there was an issue devoted to a "custom profile fields" extension somewhere in here.

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[luceos]

I think I would not implement this in core or in a bundled extension. What would make more sense would have a property recentlyConfirmed or something similar. Comparable to how the banner is shown that the mail address hasn't been confirmed yet.