Off topic correct. But what caught my eye is "multiple email address" are hard to remember. Your saying that you use 1 username across the board for every site your registered to? If that username is taken you just say ohh well im not signing up if I end up with a different username? An email I unique ...can only be 1. 100 million sites have dave_m as a username already registered so I get stuck with dave_m_12342 on this site and dave_m_330 on another is that really easier than remembering 1 email address? Sure I have 3 or 4 emails for sites but I know that the address is limited to my use only in the whole world. Forget my password its mailed to me / reset whatnot...forget my username? was it dave_456 or mr_dave_or endless combinations of something I was forced to use or create on the spot? Sure someone is going to reply "I have 5 or 6 usernames as standard I use" so that's just the same as 5 or 6 emails.
Where a username I'm sure is used repeatedly by different user hundreds / thousand / million times thru out the web how is that easier. So yes everyone has multiple usernames and multiple email address for the sites they register to depending on what each site uses during registration, but you can't tell me that remembering your own email address is harder than remembering a username. But I do agree if there was a standard it would make things easier but my guess is with everysite having its own way of doing things getting everyone to agree would be another never ending topic : Cheers all. -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Schmidt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 6:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Users name / changes On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:46, cricket wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> > >> 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. > > If you have a catch-all rule, just incorporate the site name into the > email address you use. We're getting off-topic now, but: * I do * I also usually include the year in the address; if it's been years since I've registered with a site, there is often lots of guessing involved in finding the right year, though I try to keep my address updated, on sites that let me change it * Some sites do not allow you to use their name in your email address I see this problem with non-techie people too; whenever my step-mother needs to log into a site, I see her struggling for several minutes to try different combinations of email addresses and passwords. She too has multiple email addresses; not as many as me, and not really by choice. I suppose I should be advocating for the use of single-signon systems. Of course, until *every* site a user visits makes use of the *same* single-signon system, it doesn't solve the problem. -- 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
