Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life.

Re: Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, p... by Huppie on Thursday September 16, 2010 @02:36AM (#1697003)

If both of them work that sounds like a great feature for most people.

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Re: Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, p... by eru on Thursday September 16, 2010 @06:13AM (#1697380)

But why require a username, then?

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Re: Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, p... by Huppie on Thursday September 16, 2010 @10:26AM (#1697899)

It does indeed seem a bit strange to require a username when an email-address is enough. However, my point was that even though they use usernames, they still allow you to simply login by using their e-mail address. That's a lot better than sites having a 'lost your username?' link IMHO.

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Re: Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, p... by scottward on Thursday September 16, 2010 @01:16PM (#1698412)

We need the username in order to say who edited what.

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Re: Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, p... by eru on Friday September 17, 2010 @08:44AM (#1700912)

How about using the email address instead (and offer a username as a display alias only, if people don't want to have their email address displayed).

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Re: Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, p... by jtheory on Sunday September 19, 2010 @10:53AM (#1706230)

Meh -- who would want their email address displayed? That's not a safe default. You'd just be punishing the users who don't manage to find the setting.

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