Make Invite Friends Automated
The Invite Friends plugin should not have a form for inputing emails manually; it should have a Facebook-style "Invite Friends" feature where people can send invitations to their contacts in their email accounts (Yahoo, GMail, ...). I mean who in the world remembers emails in their head? May be they can remember one or two emails of people (even these have to be their very close friends with whom they exchange emails frequently).
Let's face it. Even when people enter emails manually one at a time to the Invite Friends form, they'll have to first access their contacts in their email accounts, copy the emails, and paste them into the form. So, this going-to-email-accounts-fetching-friends-one-at-a-time-to-an-elgg-site being inevitable, why not make the invitation process automated and let people access their email accounts from the website to which their are trying to invite their friends, select the friends they want to invite, and send the invitation? Since Elgg is also still providing this Invite Friends plugin bundled with the core, why not make it automated. Just a thought.
- Paweł Sroka@srokap
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I personally wouldn't ever give away my email account password to some unknown site. That's unsafe even if I trust the website. I wonder if it would be possible to do using ie. OAuth for some common providers.
lol
http://community.elgg.org/discussion/view/1472291/contacts-importer-from-invite-friends-and-twitter-api
http://community.elgg.org/discussion/view/1471522/let-us-make-an-openinviter-plugin
@Pawel Sroka We all know how to search but it's not helpful to suggest something last updated 1536 days ago...
This discussion is about the fact that we have NO working inviter plug in to use.
I always thought a suggest groups and suggest friends plugin would be great using field data for "interests", drop boxes etc.
i am currently designing expansions to the related-items plugin which may include all such ideas in one plugin.. there is a large scope for what can be done with tags and mostly it hasn't yet been done.
there are multiple 'suggest friends' plugins already coded and at least one 'suggest groups' though i haven't had much experience with them. i am going to begin with content and then maybe come back to the other areas such as friends and groups.
I too am shocked that people will so willingly give up their email password, Facebook bugs me to do it every time I log in and there's absolutely no way!
I have almost fixed Brett Profit's Omni_Inviter. That plugin is the best bet for inviting friends.