I guess it's just personal preference. In the real world, you can't cross the name of your drivers license because you want to be called a different name today. Marrage / divorce are a few exceptions. There are lots of sites that restrict name changes and it's to benefit the end users or the overall site, not the individual.
100 Users save 1 Profile (Jack Jones), they can search Jack Jones and find him every time 100 happy Users. They send a message to Jack , Jack responds back, since that’s who they would be expecting a response from. Jack cannot change his name more than x times, Jack might not be happy but 100 happy users vs 1 forced to use the name they have? How can that be bad? This particular site, the only reference users have with each other is their names. No friends, they do not know each other all they have is firstname lastname to go on. If a user is found, know, seen by 1 name then that’s what you would expect everytime. Anyways we can just end this here as it can just go on forever. Thanks for the feedback guys. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Miles J [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:05 PM To: CakePHP Subject: Re: Users name / changes Let them allow changes. I hate Facebooks restriction on name changes. Why should the site owners dictate how a user wants to be known? On Feb 3, 12:14 pm, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Feb 2, 2011, at 22:06, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit wrote: > > > I usually make a username an email address because it is a no brainer for the user to come up with and remember > > FWIW, I hate sites that require me to use an email address as a username, because I have an infinite number of email addresses available to me via the catch-all rule at my domain name, and I can never remember which email address I used to register at any particular site. Plea to all site designers: Allow me to pick a username that I can remember. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
