Two forums share members with a twist
 

I've read a lot of people wanting to be able to share memberships within two different forums. It sounds interesting to me but with it, you'll probably get a lot of members who aren't interested in being a member of the other forum. So this is what I was thinking.

Let's say you have a forum with a user base and you're launching the new forum. You tell your members that they can sign up at the new forum but instead, give them the option to press a "Join" button that automatically registers them with their user account from the old forum on the new forum, too.

Would this be possible?

Sounds good, but what about keeping the two in sync?

I can't see that working, as it's a case of share the user table or don't. If you do then it has exactly the same users on both sites - no exceptions. If you don't then it's two registrations.

Sorry about that.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Well, I modified my registration forms so registration isn't really that big of a deal.

I wonder if I could create a special registration form for members of the other forum so they can register but not have to verify their e-mail. Then any new members who aren't members of either forum go through the default registration where they must verify e-mail. I'm sure that must be possible.