Discussion: Ask user's contact email and mobile

[rapee]

In case that bot-youpin user mapping is not feasible (#38), a bot should ask for user's contact.

• email (required)
• mobile

If we get user's email, what is the challenges and how possible it is to use email to map to YouPin's users?

[p16i]

What we could do here is to ask the user whether he/she want to watch the issue or not. by a link to the issue after the submission.

Once the user click on the link, he/she will need to login and the system will automatically add the user to the watching list. If, he/she logins via Facebook then we can do mapping easily.

What do you think?

[rapee]

@heytitle That's one good idea!

Let me clarify this: what we need here is not watcher, but owner. We need a way to validate if the user is the same person talked to the bot, a.k.a. owner.

One idea is to use Messenger page-scoped ID (PSID) as a secret key. When the user click the link /issue/1234?psid=xyz, we map it to user's Facebook app-scoped user ID on YouPin web.

But how is this different from Account Linking ?

[tvirot]

I think I like @rapee's idea na. This gives every issue a link so one can track without opting in for notifications.

The difference is that this is not done through Messenger, that is, the account won't be linked explicitly, but the authentication will be done though Messenger's in-app browser.

[p16i]

the secret keys will be the same for every issue that the user creates, right?

[rapee]

@heytitle Yes, I think so. Right, ta? @tvirot

[rapee]

the authentication will be done though Messenger's in-app browser.

@tvirot Oh I forgot it opens in in-app browser. Then user needs to re-login on facebook?

If we're gonna map PSID to AID (app-scoped user ID), bot must tell user to click the generated link.