Hey Mods,

Over the last few months we’ve been working to make community privacy settings more understandable. We recently added privacy type into the community ID card to make it easier for users to see and today (ermm, yesterday afternoon) we shipped a more straightforward approval request flow for restricted communities.

What’s changed?

Now on restricted communities the post button on desktop will be a “request to post” button

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Request to post button

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This will pull up a pre-filled (but editable) modmail message field so it’s clear to mods a user is requesting approval

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Modmail form

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Once a request is sent, the post button will be a “draft post” button and won’t bring up the modmail form to prevent request spam

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Draft post button

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Mods will get a message with a link to a the user approval modal in mod hub with the requesting user pre-filled to make things a little more efficient

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Modmail message with approval link

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Pre-filled approval modal

What’s next?

We’re working on expanding the restricted settings to let mods choose to restrict post and/or comments, then allowing mods to have more control over username and media visibility. And further out we’ll be working on the backend user management in the mod hub.

If you’re a mod of a restricted community, let us know what you think! And if you run into issues leave us a comment below.

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Update

We've added an option to disable member requests from the button based on feedback.

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[editx2: spacing] [edit3: photo captions & typo] [edit4: clarification]

[edit5: update on disabling request option]