Today, we spent time documenting our process for implementing our Single Sign-On solution, which you can read here. This page provides an overview to help site owners understand how we handle the flow between their main site and their forum. The goal is to help site owners conceptualize how the process works at a high level and how Ninja Post handles certain user states.
In the mock up below, we demonstrate how Ninja Post handles the following user states:
- Not logged in at all.
- Logged into the main site but has never used the forum.
- Logged into the main site and already has a forum account.
Once the flow between the main site and the forum is well understood, the next steps (e.g., managing the user’s session, instituting redirects back to the forum after log in, etc.) become easier to tackle.
