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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index d7c3430..afe63fd 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -220,6 +220,24 @@ Someone who runs a node invites you. You need an account on the same hub first. You will not be asked again on that browser, or on that machine. +### Joining with a link + +The person running the group can send you a **link** instead of a code — the +way in when you have no account yet. + +1. **Open the link.** It says *"You have been invited"*. +2. **Create an account** with the e-mail address the invitation was sent to — + exactly that address — or sign in if you already have one. Confirm your + address with the code the hub mails you, then sign in. +3. You are brought back to the invitation: *"… invites you to join …"*. + **Join.** +4. The group opens, and you type no code: the link carried it. + +The link works once, and only for the account registered with that address; to +anyone else it says it was sent to another address. In the desktop +application, paste the link into **Join with an invitation link** on the home +page. + **The code never passes through the hub** — unless whoever invited you asked the hub to mail it to you — and that is the whole reason it exists: it proves the invitation came from the person running the group, and not from the @@ -549,6 +567,15 @@ membership on the hub and produces a code that never goes near it. Send the code out of band; they enter it the first time they open the group. You do not need to be online then. +**Inviting someone who has no account yet** is the **Invite by link** box, under +the first one: type their e-mail address and **Create link**. Send them the +link, or leave **Send the invitation by e-mail** ticked and the hub mails it. +They register with that address and land in the group without typing a code. +The link works once and only for an account with that address, so a copy that +travels further — a forwarded mail, a chat — lets nobody else in. Pending links +are listed under the box, and **Cancel** takes one back. A hub mails at most ten +links a day for one account (an administrator can change that). + The Members tab offers **Send the invitation by e-mail**, ticked by default: the hub mails the code to the address on their account, so nobody has to copy it. That is a trade: **the hub then holds the code**, and a hub that wanted to could |