Spectrum: Invite users in bulk

[mirko77]

Issue Type

• [ ] Bug Report
• [x] Feature Idea
• [ ] Technical Discussion
• [ ] Question (these will be auto-closed, please ask them on Spectrum instead https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/open)

Description

Hi,
I have a list of ~1000 members to invite from a community I currently have on Google+ (which is shutting down).

Is there any way to invite them in bulk, for example uploading a .csv file with the email addresses?

see https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/invite-users-in-bulk~17ae92bf-9a6e-42a2-b1b4-cfe19ebdd807

[shtefcs]

That would be great new feature for community owners, where they could bring more members easier and migrate from other platforms.

[mxstbr]

A quick way to do this would be to allow input of .json files from the frontend, which would auto-fill the existing inputs in the community settings. (.json instead of .csv because then we do not need to ship a parser)

[mxstbr]

If anybody wants to tackle this, the relevant code is in src/components/emailInvitationForm. It renders this part of the community settings:

1. Add an <input type="file" /> that only accepts .json files in the bottom left
2. Parse the input JSON and make sure it is in the format ['[email protected]', '[email protected]'] or [{ email: '[email protected]' }]
3. Add the emails from the JSON file to this.state.contacts

That should be it! If anybody can build the functionality, we can make it look nice and that should be it 👍

[brianlovin]

We could put a csv => json parse on the api server though!

[mirko77]

I have always used PapaParse for csv => json

[mxstbr]

@brianlovin as a v2 for sure, but as a quick win it would be nice to keep the changes frontend-only and not upload massive files to our server! :+1:

[mxstbr]

Here is a first prototype: https://codesandbox.io/s/2x8jly1v4y

This should be a relatively simple change, will see if we can land this next week.

[shtefcs]

Hey, wondering why it's closed? Did you make it work or smth else? @mxstbr

[mxstbr]

Yes we built this feature, it will go live today! I will ping y'all here when it is live 👍

[mirko77]

Is there a limit on the number of invitations we can send?

[shtefcs]

Awesome.

[mxstbr]

I do not think we have a limit at the moment—now that you ask me that though, we should probably add one... 🙈

[mxstbr]

This is live, you can now bulk-invite emails in your member settings!

[shtefcs]

Looks nice great Max.

Just wondering the same about the limit? Can we import 1k members ?

[mirko77]

I tried 2K and it went through.

I have not got any invitation email yet though

[shtefcs]

Let's see, maybe emails are in quee. Let us know how it went Mirko
vanila.io

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:43 PM Mirko Menegazzo [e-mail]
wrote:

I tried 2K and it went through.

I have not got any invitation email yet though

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[mxstbr]

We definitely see them in our analytics 😅

Email invites per day:

It does not look like any of them failed so far, afaict!

[mirko77]

Awesome!

[shtefcs]

We definitely see them in our analytics 😅

Email invites per day:

It does not look like any of them failed so far, afaict!

Nice. Is that Sendgrid Analytics or something else ?

[mirko77]

We have a few new members already, looks like everything is working properly

Good job!

[mxstbr]

Nice. Is that Sendgrid Analytics or something else ?

https://amplitude.com! We use GitHub's SendGrid account, so it's a bit hard to see just our emails in their analytics.

We have a few new members already, looks like everything is working properly

Awesome, more than happy to hear that!

[mirko77]

@mxstbr still I am not getting the invites I tried to send to my personal emails (to see how the invitation looks like)

nothing in my spam folder either.

Any thoughts?

[mxstbr]

That is very strange. Can you DM me your email address on Spectrum, and I will double check what happened with your email in our records?

[mirko77]

Done, and I found another bug on the way ;)