[ecidadania-dev] Re: Ability to invite friends without logging in: a bug or intended feature
- From: Oscar Carballal Prego <oscar.carballal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ecidadania-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:35:14 +0200
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:12:21 +0200, Mohamed Ashraf
<mohamed.ashraf.213@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Arvind S Raj <sraj.arvind@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Oscar Carballal Prego <
>> oscar.carballal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:43:55 +0530, Arvind S Raj
<sraj.arvind@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hey everyone,
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Oscar Carballal Prego <
>>> > oscar.carballal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> It's an intended feature, but if you think it's not ok to have it
>>> please
>>> >> explain why :)
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > It could be abused-someone could invite random people to join the
site
>>> and
>>> > we won't be able to determine who invited whom. Also, the person
>>> > invited
>>> > wouldn't know who invited him-I think people would like to know who
>>> invited
>>> > them to join; at least I would like to know :).
>>>
>>> You have a good point. We can't allow anonymous users to send
>>> invitations
>>> without any restriction. Let's move the email invitations to a private
>>> zone.
>>>
>>
>> Okay then. I've reported a ticket(#192) and created a pull request that
>> fixes the issue too.
>>
>> I would like to add one thing that while email invitations should be
only
> for logged in users however sharing via facebook and twitter and other
> social media sites shouldn't because the invitees already know who the
> inviter is and I shouldn't expect everyone who wants to share the
website
> wants to use it or has a reason to. what do you think?
I solved it today and modified the code to allow the use of social
networks, but not of e-mail :)
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