Re:Users don't like social login
by imissmyjuno on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @10:21PM
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There is typically nothing stopping you from using your email as a username, though. I like the freedom of using either, to be honest.
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Except for the many, many websites that have stupid restrictions like: "sorry, your username should be lower-case letters only".
Re:Users don't like social login
by beaumartinez on Thursday March 21, 2013 @08:38AM
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It's not necessarily stupid—it could be so that your username can be included in URLs (like Twitter). "Lower-case only" is stupid though.
The problem is not displaying a username. The problem is using the username to login. Because users forget that.
If you're stupidly using your email as your username then your email becomes public should the site you're on show, at any point, your username.
Which is why sites correctly done use the email for login but display a username and never your email. Correctly done sites also forbid username from containing '@', so that you can be sure that people don't do anything retardedly stupid like using their email as username, which would be displayed publicly on the site...