On 3/4/2011 2:41 PM, Rob Marscher wrote:
Some nice thoughts. Thanks for sharing.
On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
Get rid of 2 of them. And the one that makes the most sense to keep is
username.
There's probably some sites where people don't even want to bother creating a
username and just use an email address.
In that case, email address is the username. :-) Username for the
database is just some transitory unique value used to identify an
individual.
The thing is, once you start really really thinking like that, there are
all sorts of hackish things you can stop doing. For example, everyone
who visits the website is automatically assigned a 'username' and while
you still treat them as anonymous, you let them do many things on the
website a normal user can do[make comments, put stuff in carts,
etc]...you just don't finalize/publish that stuff.
Then when they "logon", you just merge their two accounts. Their phony
username is registered to the aka database, and everything they did can
become 'live'.
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