Comments for page "20 - Drive-by Sign-in & Registration"

Re: Custom welcome message?

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:54:22 +0000

So two or three things here:

A customizable email notification to new members, configurable in the site manager on a per-site basis - I've made an issue for this in our internal tracker.
A part of this email that would be common to all sites, and cover Wikidot more generally
A 'welcome' landing page for new members to a site, configurable in the site manager

Re: Custom welcome message?

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:53:57 +0000

Yes I agree. I have often thought it would be a nice touch if there was an automated message sent to new wikidot users saying hello and pointing them to the community forum, the themes site, Pieter's blog, the nearest wine bar and the snippets site. So much is going on with Wikidot these days that new users might get terribly confused about what is where so this would get them going in roughly the right direction.

Rob

Custom welcome message?

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:18:12 +0000

It would be great if admins could send an automated message to new site members — os if, upon completing the sign-up process, the user were directed to a page containing such custom text. How about that?

Re:

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:34:00 +0000

Thanks, Shane, for pointing that out — and thanks Pieter for listening!

Private paid sites

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:32:46 +0000

I think there should be a way for private paid sites that membership to wikidot be transparent, i.e. not visible. Private members would know registering to the private website, not to wikidot.

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Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:16:40 +0000

This is true. I'm going to fix the text.

Re:

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:14:50 +0000

That's clearer, have changed it.

(no title)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:22:29 +0000

Instead of The verification email has the title "Confirm your comment on websitename"

How about this: The verification email has the title "Confirm your comment on %%site_title%%"

;-)

(no title)

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:56:16 +0000

On a site with open membership, DBR automatically results in the user becoming a site member and watcher of the site. Open sites are "sticky" and acquire all new registered users.

Again, I don't think this is a good idea. The default action should be that all new sites joined by a user are NOT watched. If they find themselves continuously clicking on 'watch site' then they can set it to automatically do so in their user settings.

If I came across a website and joined, then started being spammed with emails from edit changes, I'd do two things:

Block the domain from sending me mails (send them straight to the spam folder and "report spam" in Gmail)
Never visit the website again

This is exactly the same situation as Wikidot puts users into.

Auto-watching is useful for websites that I own, but except for me being a part of the community now, I wouldn't want to watch any other sites. I'd rather just visit them when I have time and read the news, blog, etc. for updates