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That's not what I was suggesting at all. If your service actually sends people emails (other than, say, password resets), then you still need them to follow a "
by JoshTriplett 7y ago
That's not what I was suggesting at all. If your service actually sends people emails (other than, say, password resets), then you still need them to follow a "verify your email" link before sending them mails other than the single "welcome" message containing that link. I'm just saying that you don't need to wait for email verification before letting people make and use an account, as long as you don't send them any more emails beyond the welcome message.
Many services don't send regular emails, and only ask for an email so that 1) everyone has a unique identifier without having to make up a unique username, and 2) they can do password resets. For such services, the procedure above makes sense to reduce friction.
- abiogenesis 7y agoI still wouldn't want someone else to be able to register for some service using my email. What happens if I want to use the same service in the future? That happens to me all the time as I have a very generic email address (one of the first users of Gmail). Someone seems to have registered to Facebook with my email and now I can't disassociate it. People searching me by my email address on Facebook end up with that random guy.
- cortesoft 7y agoShouldn't you be able to request a password reset, which would send an email to you and then you would delete it?
- abiogenesis 7y agoAlready tried that. It asks me that other person's private information (such as date of birth).