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RE: Link in Friend Request Email (Redux)
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Link in Friend Request Email (Redux)
Tags: friends
12:15 PM EDT 9/17/08
I appreciate the WJ staff fixing that little link in the Friend Request Email. That link now takes the recipient to the requestor's profile. This is a huge improvement.

However, I realized the other day that it can cause a series of Friend Requests. When I receive my Friend Request Email, I follow the link to the requestor's profile. Unfortunately, there is no link there to "approve request." Instead, I end up clicking on "Add as Friend." So now the requestor gets a request back and so it goes until one of us figures out we should, after getting to the requestor's profile page, go to "My WebJunction" so we can "approve the request."

My suggestion is to consider one of the following:
1. The link in the email just automatically approves the friend request (a la LinkedIn),
2. The link in the email takes the recipient to their own page where the friend requests are waiting so they can be approved with minimal clicking, or
3. The something is on the requestor's profile page (where we are currently linked) to automatically approve the request from that individual.

Thanks for considering it. Just trying to limit the clicking. emoticon

G.
RE: Link in Friend Request Email (Redux)
Tags: bugs features freinds updates
10:37 PM EDT 9/17/08 as a reply to Gina Persichini.
Thanks for the comment, Gina. And great timing, too. We've just discovered that same icky "loop." The functionality that you should expect falls into your #2 example -- the link takes you directly to "your" profile page (instead of the person who friended you) where you can approve this and any other pending. We're working on scheduling this fix for an upcoming install.

I'll also make note of #1 as something to look at the next time we are reviewing the overall functionality of the Friends component I can see how that really would streamline the process for some of our members.

Thanks again for your feedback!
-Timemoticon