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Uh, uh, uwu!
The guide I’ve been working on all week just went online!
It’s meant to help folks using the new invite feature.
https://joinjabber.org/tutorials/service/great_invitations/
You’re admin of an XMPP server and you (just) enabled mod_invites? Then this is for you! Share that link with your users so they can spread the fun!
@zeank the post seems to imply that the existence of the ibr=y parameter depends on server configuration. Can you go into more details on what specific configuration option this depends on?
@daniel this guide‘s intended audience is regular users, not server admins. That’s why I didn’t go into much detail here.
The way it’s implemented in ejabberd is like this: if the issuing user would also be allowed to generate an Account Creation invite, then the ibr=y suffix is added.
There’s a „slight“ semantic difference here though. `max_invites` is not enforced at this level, i.e. there is no reserved slot to create an account, no guarantee it will work when being redeemed.
@zeank it's fine that the post doesn't mention it. It's just that I myself was wondering.
What does this mean in practice? Is it mostly admin users who can create ibr=y invites?
Is there a way to set it up in a way that my server has closed registration but every user can invite more users?
Maybe the server setup guide on @joinjabber can get a paragraph regarding possible setups.
@daniel @joinjabber I wanted to add a section for ejabberd on jj.org.
And yes, you can configure ejabberd so people with existing accounts can invite others without opening registration completely. This is controlled by `access_create_account`. You could set it to `local` or some dedicated rule (so you’re able to exclude abusers). Then in mod_register restrict access to
```yaml
allow_modules:
- mod_register
```
but no further restrictions.
https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/modules/#mod_invites
