New feature: Add and verify your email address

[ginatrapani]

Makerbase Email Capture v1

On landing page, prompt user to submit their email

• Prompt links to User page
  • Copy: "Add your email address to get notified when your pages change"
  • On user page, display email capture prompt (email_capture_state is "need_email")
• Capture form explains benefits of providing an address
  • Submission of address sends confirmation to user and puts user in "confirm_pending" state
  • Confirmation link can probably just be simple, e.g. hash of the email, doesn't expire
  • With user's email_capture_state set to "confirmation_pending", user can re-send confirmation email or change their address
• User page displays "check your email for a link" message in confirm_pending state
  • Re-sending email should generate the same message
  • Choosing to change address just restores user's email_capture_state to "need_email"
• Clicking on confirmation link in email changes email_capture_state "confirmation_success"
  • Initially, we just present the address that's on record for them
  • Eventually, we'll want email controls (turn off messages) or address changing

Open questions:

• Do we want to show the prompt for email anywhere other than homepage?
• Should we only show the email prompt after they've completed some first-run tasks (like making a Project or Maker)?
• Are we using Mandrill (and their templated messages) for these confirmations?

Future features:

• Claim you are a maker
• Get a blue checkmark
• Control/approve edits to your maker page (separate issue see New feature: Verified users approve pending edits by others #131 )
• Get email notifications about changes to your maker page (separate issue see New feature: Notifications #144)

[ginatrapani]

Let's wireframe out the user flow here. The email input box is obvious, but not sure how that ties into claiming your maker page.

[ginatrapani]

(Moved from Trello)

Branch with WIP UI elements for email capture: https://github.com/ThinkUpLLC/makerbase/tree/email-capture-prompt

New User attributes:

• user.email
• user.email_verification_code
• user.is_email_verified

UserController will:

• translate these attributes into the email_capture_state vars the view expects
• save an email address - set is_email_verified to false, email_activation_code, and email
• verify an email address - set is_email_verified to true if given the right verification code for the logged in user
• offer option to resend verification email
• offer option to change your email address either before or after verification (if after, will reset is_email_verified to false)