@baris Wow, thanks for your detailed input. Hope I can contribute to the community soon after.

@guo said in Registering - Force email confirmation?:

@A-Former-User said in Registering - Force email confirmation?:

I'm going to bump this year old topic to see if it can get more attention. I really feel that NodeBB should differentiate between a registered user, and a user who still needs to validate their email.

While these accounts can't post, they can access all sorts of content that I have open to regular user accounts. A work around would to be a secondary group, reward promotion and require something like an introduction post, but this is by no means the standard procedure on a forum.

I know it is an old topic, can anyone give some hints on how to create a group for registered users without email validation? Although this kind of users are not able to post, they can view topics just like the registered one while a guest cannot.

I dig into the code and try to avoid users without email validation from reading posts.
In src/controllers/api.js, I made some changes as:

apiController.getPostData = async function (pid, uid) {
	const [userPrivileges, post, voted, userData] = await Promise.all([
		privileges.posts.get([pid], uid),
		posts.getPostData(pid),
		posts.hasVoted(pid, uid),
		user.getUserFields(uid, ['email:confirmed']), // add
	]);
	if (!post) {
		return null;
	}
	Object.assign(post, voted);

	const notConfirmed = meta.config.requireEmailConfirmation && !userData['email:confirmed']; // add

	const userPrivilege = userPrivileges[0];
	if (!userPrivilege.read || !userPrivilege['topics:read'] || notConfirmed) { // add
		return null;
	}

	post.ip = userPrivilege.isAdminOrMod ? post.ip : undefined;
	const selfPost = uid && uid === parseInt(post.uid, 10);
	if (post.deleted && !(userPrivilege.isAdminOrMod || selfPost)) {
		post.content = '[[topic:post_is_deleted]]';
	}
	return post;
};

But it is of no avail. I am a nodejs newbie, can anyone give some advises?

@A-Former-User said in Registering - Force email confirmation?:

I'm going to bump this year old topic to see if it can get more attention. I really feel that NodeBB should differentiate between a registered user, and a user who still needs to validate their email.

While these accounts can't post, they can access all sorts of content that I have open to regular user accounts. A work around would to be a secondary group, reward promotion and require something like an introduction post, but this is by no means the standard procedure on a forum.

I know it is an old topic, can anyone give some hints on how to create a group for registered users without email validation? Although this kind of users are not able to post, they can view topics just like the registered one while a guest cannot.