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You'd be surprised how frequently people forgot both passwords and E-mail. Or more likely, forget the password to an account registered with a fake E-mail.
by fleaflicker 19y ago
You'd be surprised how frequently people forgot both passwords and E-mail. Or more likely, forget the password to an account registered with a fake E-mail.
- drusenko 19y agoIn our experience, we've rarely run into scenarios where users forget their passwords and have mistyped their email/faked an email after having spent time on their account. If they haven't spent time on an account -- create a new one! Otherwise, how does someone who fakes their email expect to recover a password anyway? It's kind of an assumed risk that if you fake your email, you won't be able to recover your password. And requiring a confirmation won't help anything -- they'll be forced to re-create another account with a valid email... that is if they even want to use your service anymore. This user apparently hated giving out their email so badly that they put in a fake one... What makes you think they aren't just going to turn around and not use your service when you require a valid email?
- staunch 19y ago> If they haven't spent time on an account -- create a new one! What if they've put time into the account when they first logged in post-signup and are infuriated at having to re-do the work? Or they picked their favorite username and now it's taken by themselves, so they don't get their cool URL (like myspace.com/username)? BTW: I think you should add a <label> tags to TOS checkbox on the front page of Weebly :-)