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bentlegen
As a potentially interesting follow-on, the results of this experiment - letting users invite other users, or even invite themselves - was so successful that we've since adopted the pattern in other areas. For example, we've made it possible for lower-permission users to "Request to Install" an integration like Jira or GitHub.
kareemm
Great read. When requesting to join an org, how do you know which org admins to send the request to?
bentlegen
It goes to all of them.
kareemm
Sorry - I phrased my question a little ambiguously.

How do you know which ORG the user is requesting to join?

bentlegen
Ah, so we do have organization-specific landing pages, kind of like Slack does for workspaces.

If a user visits a link to an issue within an organization, and they're unauthorized, we'll redirect them to that organization's landing page.

kareemm
Ah nice, that's smart. May steal that idea =) Good stuff, thanks for the post!
switch007
I assume they lookup members by email address, then fetch their organisation(s), then emails the admins of each org?

That's opaque to the requester though isn't it? They wouldn't be entirely sure to which company they are requesting to be invited.

nojvek
The new Sentry invite modal looks so much like the Mixpanel invite modal.

Really cool. Love to see articles like this.

bentlegen
That's wild, because I'm not sure we ever looked at Mixpanel's invite modal (great minds think alike?). We do however use Amplitude at Sentry, from which the "Request to Join" link definitely draws inspiration.