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We don't have usernames! You can log in with OAuth, or by Email. You can change your _display name_ on your profile page, and that's what appears publicly on

by daave 4y ago

We don't have usernames! You can log in with OAuth, or by Email. You can change your _display name_ on your profile page, and that's what appears publicly on the site (your email doesn't appear publicly, even if you log in by address!). Today to get a custom profile URL like radiopaper.com/Dave, you just need to ask and we'll create an alias for you. There isn't a self-serve alias mechanism available today, but we're thinking about how to provide one. Any profile can be linked by the URL radiopaper.com/uid, for instnace my profile can be reached at https://radiopaper.com/user/AwQLwnOgQFdyDfNoYfNCSSsVdx43 https://radiopaper.com/user/AwQLwnOgQFdyDfNoYfNCSSsVdx43, "Dave" is just an alias. Clearly having separate concepts of login method vs display name vs profile URL is all a bit confusing, this is helpful feedback!

stavros 4y ago
Ahh okay, thanks! Could I have the username "Stavros" then please? I am currently https://radiopaper.com/user/U2goL6aTrtYs38S1l0kMkJuMwMm1 https://radiopaper.com/user/U2goL6aTrtYs38S1l0kMkJuMwMm1 Also, having a section in the profile where I could change my login email address would help with the UX.
- daave 4y ago
  Done - https://radiopaper.com/Stavros https://radiopaper.com/Stavros Being able to change your email address is a known gap, sorry about that. For now if you want to use a different email you'll need to make a second account. We plan to make account merging possible in the future. A short-sighted technical decision on my part: we use the Firebase Auth UIDs as our internal user IDs, but Firebase Auth does not allow you to have multiple email auth-providers on a single account. So we need to add a layer of indirection in our data model.
  - stavros 4y ago
    Thank you! The inability to change the email address is OK, but it should still appear somewhere so I know what it is and that it's not my username. Maybe a note of "you can't change this yet, sorry!" would be nice too.

by daave 4y ago

stavros 4y ago

Ahh okay, thanks! Could I have the username "Stavros" then please? I am currently https://radiopaper.com/user/U2goL6aTrtYs38S1l0kMkJuMwMm1 https://radiopaper.com/user/U2goL6aTrtYs38S1l0kMkJuMwMm1 Also, having a section in the profile where I could change my login email address would help with the UX.

daave 4y ago
Done - https://radiopaper.com/Stavros https://radiopaper.com/Stavros Being able to change your email address is a known gap, sorry about that. For now if you want to use a different email you'll need to make a second account. We plan to make account merging possible in the future. A short-sighted technical decision on my part: we use the Firebase Auth UIDs as our internal user IDs, but Firebase Auth does not allow you to have multiple email auth-providers on a single account. So we need to add a layer of indirection in our data model.
- stavros 4y ago
  Thank you! The inability to change the email address is OK, but it should still appear somewhere so I know what it is and that it's not my username. Maybe a note of "you can't change this yet, sorry!" would be nice too.