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Just curious, what is your reasoning behind requiring a username and an email? I've been experimenting lately with super minimal signups and the two seem more
by yesimahuman 16y ago
Just curious, what is your reasoning behind requiring a username and an email? I've been experimenting lately with super minimal signups and the two seem more and more redundant for most web apps, but I want to hear your thoughts (and maybe it's a potential optimization point?).
- matt1 16y agoIt was a part of the restful authentication plugin I originally used to set it up [1] :) For this app its necessary because I allow users to share the timelines they create and I display their user names on the shared timelines. Your train of thought is good though. [1] https://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication https://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication
- yesimahuman 16y agoYea public facing stuff seems like the only time it's really needed. One way is maybe to defer that until they actually share something and then have to pick. I sometimes take their username from the email (before the '@') and use that if necessary but it's not a great solution. Good luck!
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- kevin_morrill 16y agoWe just did phone number + password only for our SMS app textweight.com and the sign up rate is pretty amazing. I need to do some A/B testing with requiring e-mail.
- yesimahuman 16y agoCrazy thought: phone number only, then after they are in, require they enter one? If they don't set one or forget, they just get a text and reset it? The psychology of this is interesting because on one hand they might feel less safe but on the other they might not care and just want to jump right in!