Lack of interest Redirect to previous page upon registration

[doublespaces]

When people see this:

When they register we break the flow by dumping them here:


Instead, why not redirect them back to what they were trying to do by making the register link something like this:
https://www.mysite.com/register?redirect=https://www.mysite.com/forums/thread.1#post2

They can go right back to whatever it was they were doing:

• Buying member only user upgrades
• Viewing Private Forum
• Entering custom fields
• Downloading attachments
• Purchasing Resources

The current page assumes the person is registering just for the fun of it with no objective. That is a misguided assumption that surely reduces the engagement of the forum.

 

[SeToY]

That heavily depends on the use case. Imagine being greeted with the "no permission" page, you register to view the content but still have no permission to view it (admin approval, email validation, ...). Thus that would redirect them to an error page after registering.

If the XF team can make it situation-aware, I second this, though

 

[doublespaces]

That heavily depends on the use case. Imagine being greeted with the "no permission" page, you register to view the content but still have no permission to view it (admin approval, email validation, ...). Thus that would redirect them to an error page after registering.

If the XF team can make it situation-aware, I second this, though

They solution for that would be to disable the extra security features. This suggestion is meant to solve the registration flow issue, there are work around for what you describe.

This portion doesn't exist:
"register.php?redirect="

If they program the parameter in you aren't required to use it.

 

[SeToY]

solution

disable the extra security features

Ok. Enough said

 

[doublespaces]

Ok. Enough said

Didn't say it was ideal

Either way, being stuck at membership approval is not the concern of the registration page, trying to convince XF that it is would be opening a whole can of worms that makes this suggestion not feasible and probably the reason it doesn't exist already.

Someone could create very restrictive approval rules and that would be something imposed on themselves, an edge case that shouldn't be accounted for in the core. They can write an addon for that situation.

you register to view the content but still have no permission to view it (admin approval, email validation, ...). Thus that would redirect them to an error page after registering.

They are displayed a very specific error:


What is your proposed solution if it isn't to disable the manual approval(a natural feature and way of operating for some sites)? The only other way to prevent this screen is to avoid the registration. It already states they will receive an email right at the top.

If they are using a social login to register, do we REALLY need to confirm their email? Another thing which could be done once the registration functionality was in place, is to introduce an option to make the email verification a nag rather than a mandatory requirement. They already registered for goodness sake, give them some permissions to at least view some things but not post for example.

There are ways to remove some of the friction, but I think that XF could at least make a redirect parameter available in some capacity so developers can tap into it.