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Type: Suggestion
ID: 425501
Opened: 3/20/2009 7:41:18 AM
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Current experience for accepting invitations is quite cumbersome for the end user.
Even for mesh folders, having to open an *email*, browse to a webpage, click-through to accept, is just a big annoyance.

If the user already has the mesh client running, an invitation should just show-up as a toast/popup from the tool (and also in the main client window, as "Pending Invitations"), where the user can just click a link/button in the toast to accept the invitation, without further interactions.

This was one of the main "WTF" questions I got from non-geeky users when explaining how to sync data among them (i.e. my family :))

I can see the email/web approach also highly inconvenient for custom mesh objects that are not folders (currently both the email and the webpage always assume invitations are for folder ;)).

(from forum thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/liveframework/thread/5e24584a-0518-458d-82f6-39affab44fc7)
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What were you trying to do that prompted you to want to change it?
invite non technical users to folders
How would this change make what you were trying to do easier?
would provide more seameless experience
How often would you use this change?
90-100% of the time
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Posted by TedYHoward on 3/20/2009 at 5:29 PM
I would argue for more than just 'invites through client' and rather that you need some PM+designer love on the E2E scenario of invites. If you look at the craze about Facebook applications, it is largely due to the viral growth possible by layering your new application on top of the full Facebook social network. Invites, accepts, and app authorizations are frictionless on Facebook and that makes it a platform for viral growth. There is malware potential and there are end-user control issues to be worked out, of course.
The API for invitations looks nice. If the UX was as smooth, then the platform could benefit greatly
Posted by kzu on 3/21/2009 at 3:48 PM
There's no API for invitations acceptance, AFAIK. Am I missing something?
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