Allowing but not requiring email address as username seems like a very good solution to me; it's unfortunately not an option in the project that I'm working on, but I did advocate for it initially before getting vetoed. I know I've seen examples of it in the wild, but I couldn't come up with many when I was making my case. Does anyone know of any large-scale sites that permit both user-created username and email address as "usernames"?
2009/2/2 Mat Atkinson <[email protected]>: > Email certainly seems to be an easy way to solve the memory issue. > > If you do go down the route of using email, then you could think > about allowing users to create email aliases - all of which would > work as a login ID. This would help solve the "which email did I > use" problem, although would reduce security. > > Alternatively, if you go down the username route then allow users to > use an email address as their username. This then makes it the > user's choice whether to use email as a login ID. > > Mat Atkinson > http://www.proofhq.com > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37879 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
