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| | | Forum Newbie
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 4/2/2008 5:31:27 PM
Posts: 3, Visits: 9 |
| The use of email addresses for usernames has become very common. I prefer the technique as it is one that minimizes ll of the ids and passwords needed. It's a very user friendly technique.
So, I was surprised to see this brand new web2.0 service lunched using the antiquated method that doesn't allow email addresses as usernames.
I imagine one reason might be to allow the same username for both the service and the forum. Disallowing an email address keeps those addresses from being displayed in the forum. If that's the case, it is a poor compromise. It would be much better to sue a modern username technique and to require a different display name for the forums.
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| | | Supreme Being
Group: Administrators
Last Login: 8/4/2008 3:57:45 PM
Posts: 91, Visits: 351 |
| There are some other future reasons for the use of a username that we want to keep in that format.
Is it fair to say that you would like to login using an email address? Or is it a problem specifying a username in general?
If the login part is the issue, we could allow for the login to take both the email and the username. Let me know what you think. Thanks
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Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 4/2/2008 5:31:27 PM
Posts: 3, Visits: 9 |
| My preference is to use an email address for logon. ... to reduce the number of logon credentials to be remembered for all the services I use. (How many IDs and passwords do you, or any of us, try to remember?)
After logging on, having an additional username or display name is perfectly OK, and highly desired. |
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| | | Supreme Being
Group: Administrators
Last Login: 8/4/2008 3:57:45 PM
Posts: 91, Visits: 351 |
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| | | Supreme Being
Group: Administrators
Last Login: 8/4/2008 3:57:45 PM
Posts: 91, Visits: 351 |
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