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Why not just automatically create/delete the account? What's the purpose of manually transcribing their information to an admin panel? Also, does this mean you
by cmeacham98 5y ago
Why not just automatically create/delete the account? What's the purpose of manually transcribing their information to an admin panel? Also, does this mean you have humans copying over and potentially looking at (even if only on accident) people's passwords?
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoIt’s an app that is aimed at a specific demographic. It’s fairly important that we do our best to avoid giving accounts to “just anybody.” If we ever get to the kind of scale that would require us to have automatic account creation, we’ll see. We certainly have the technical means to do it. Until then, we’ll have volunteer admins creating accounts. I know that most services do everything they can, to push for massive scale, but we’re different. It’s an NPO, serving a fairly small subset of the population, and we need to be careful not to sacrifice quality for scale (heresy, I know). The temp passwords are auto-generated and sent to the user, and stored in the traditional one-way hash. The dashboard can reset passwords, but we pretty much let the user do what they want, once the account is set up.