Provide users the option to automatically opt in to the meetings they're subscribed to each week

[twof]

The fact that you have to opt into meetings again each week (1 by 1 especially) provides a barrier to entry that may be losing people who would otherwise do beans meetings every week.

[ny2ko]

This is easily doable and is the way we run beans at Twitch. We run an opt-out weekly flow instead of an opt-in weekly flow. I'll let folks at yelp discuss if you all want to switch to this flow and can open a PR with what we've been using

[ymilki]

I'd be interested to see what you have. How do you deal with cases in which users forget to opt-out or want to opt-out for an extended period of time (like PTO or permanent conflicts)?

[ny2ko]

Tbh haven't resolved most of the questions you are asking. I launched beans with an opt-out flow so it's all people at Twitch have known. In your case you'd have to move them from opt-in to opt-out and comparisons are definitely going to be made. When folks are going on PTO, they just turned off the subscription although I have on my TODO list to build the ability to opt x weeks for each subscription in the homepage. I just haven't been able to get round to it.

I'm not sure I understand the first case. I guess the way this typically resolves is when they get a calendar invite for the beans and they say no to the invite

[twof]

@ny2ko That's awesome that you're already doing this! Definitely put up that PR when you get a chance. I think it'll be easier to talk about the details when we have something to look that.

[ymilki]

Given that our current userbase is in the opt-in flow, we don't think it would be great to switch everyone to the opt-out flow.

We definitely want to have the opt-out flow for new users (to make initial participation easy) and for users that want it. So we would want users to be able to switch between the opt-in flow or the opt-out flow.