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Ask HN: Why Gmail '50 invites left' feature still exists?
Totally useless when it's open for all, why that box still present there?
- jonafato 16y agoMy guess: it would be more work to take it out than to do nothing.
- limmeau 16y agoMy guess: for those cases when you want to invite someone. You could either tell them "just click yourself through mail.google.com" or send them a ready-made link in one go. Some people may prefer the latter.
- schumihan 16y agoI think this is reasonable. My guess: Gmail wants you to invite somebody in your contact list directly. And they are reluctant to reset the cap of invitation because there are so many users in the system.
- skbohra123 16y agowhy not just remove the line '50 invites left' and substitute it wit something better like 'invite someone'
- Andrenid 16y agoProbably to stop spammers taking advantage of it. Invitees don't need to verify their accounts, so a spammer could make 1 legitimate account, and then invite themselves a few hundred times for instant new verification-free spam accounts. Just a guess.
- marquis 16y agoFrom my experience, and I may be incorrect, if you invite someone from Gmail they do not need to verify the account via an SMS message.
- pedanticfreak 16y agoThe illusion of limited supply makes Gmail accounts appear more valuable even if you're smart enough to realize that's not the case.