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You are understanding me correctly. I'll tell the user. I guess I'm just surprised - I'd thought the group itself was mentioned. This one can be closed.

I'd never really thought of adding group information to the invitation text. If the invitation includes many group invites, it could make the text quite long. But it's an interesting suggestion nonetheless.

Paige, I'm copying you here in case you have any thoughts about whether this would make for a better user experience. (For reference: your account > Commons Profile > Send Invites; the question is whether the groups you check during the sending of the invitation should be included in the text of the initial invitation to join the site, keeping in mind that invitations are sent independently after confirming the registration.)

My thinking is that there's a gap between the language users use and what's on the invite. If I want to have a committee meet on the commons, I'm likely to say "look out to an invite to XYZ group", not "first you will be invited to the commons, then when you join you'll get another invite to XYZ." Thanks for considering it.

My thinking is that there's a gap between the language users use and what's on the invite. If I want to have a committee meet on the commons, I'm likely to say "look out to an invite to XYZ group", not "first you will be invited to the commons, then when you join you'll get another invite to XYZ."

Right. It's worth keeping in mind that the inviter can customize the text of the invitation. Also, the language about the groups in the email should be carefully thought out, because invited users are not in fact group members until they create their accounts and accept the automatic invitations.

Paige, I'm copying you here in case you have any thoughts about whether this would make for a better user experience. (For reference: your account > Commons Profile > Send Invites; the question is whether the groups you check during the sending of the invitation should be included in the text of the initial invitation to join the site, keeping in mind that invitations are sent independently after confirming the registration.)

From what I understand of this, I think Boone is right about already being able to add a customizable message in the module from the "send invite" field. Since the option is there, this resolves informing the new user about the group you are trying to add them into right? I think if this were auto-generated the email text could potentially be very long or redundant especially if invitations are sent independently after confirming registration.

Hi All,

I'd weigh in on the other side here, as I doubt there are many use cases where users are invited to the Commons and simultaneously to many groups. In fact, I'd wager that the most frequent use case is someone inviting someone to the Common so that they can be added to one specific group.

Boone, is this kind of info kept anywhere in the database to ascertain whether my hunches here are correct?

Hi Boone,

Thanks for this. I do think that we can improve the language here and I do think that the invitation should reflect the group name. Since the group invitation would originate, in most cases from the group interface, perhaps we can mention the group from which the invitation originated and then, if other groups are added, add the phrase "and other groups" in the invitation?

I would advocate for scoping the fix in ways that would help us fit it into the 1.11 milestone. Though you are right that this is the first time we are hearing of it, it does seem like legitimate UX issue and a place where we could improve our messaging.