Are these 2 linked?: [Pricing per user] & [lack of email verification] -> flood user tables

[Ben]

Hi James. I am in a similar scenario, as a Softr creator for years and Business Plan customer for the past year, so I can understand the frustration.

@hungrypixel

"… We ourselves let users signup and access Softr Studio, even if they are not verified… "
Not true, you sent me a verification email upon sign up. I’m not trying to verify the person, all I need is verify the email.

What’s been needed for a long time is an improvement to current sign ups. It should have ensured that users in our Softr users table who have signed up from the sign up block have at least had their email addresses authenticated like The Sign In With Code Block does. Your suggested workaround with the Sign In With Code block does not suffice for sign up:

1. It doesn’t assign them a password for subsequent log in
2. It lacks optional user fields
3. It lacks user terms/privacy agreement links
4. It logs in the user without capturing their info
5. But it does show that Softr already authenticates email addresses natively.

So Softr could deploy email verification with sign up, or at least email authentication. My question is why didn’t Softr apply this functionality to the Sign Up block years ago, before you pivoted to “primarily client portals and internal tool” builders this year? I think Softr should make this right by deploying it on your Sign Up Blocks, at least for paying Softr customers.

Sign Up Email Verification

So far, the only way to “verify” signed up email addresses involves workarounds (i.e. Sign In With Code block, Sign Up block with Airtable automations that send a magic link, or 3rd party integrators). All of which are no-code, but have significant drawbacks: Users cannot sign back in with the Sign In With Code block, because it doesn’t create a password for subsequent log-ins, yet still creates a user in both the Softr and Airtable Users tables Sending an automated Magic Link from an Airtabl…