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Don't force users to pick a username

by FreshCode on 1/16/13, 12:35 PM with 2 comments

  • by pif on 1/16/13, 1:15 PM

    Most of the web sites I use regularly use an even better solution: your email address is used as your user name. How could it be better? A valid email address is surely unique, and the risk of it being forgotten by the user is sufficiently low.