Re: Email address vs Nickname?

Bill Guindon
Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:37:18 -0000

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:29:47 -0800, Ben Nolan
<ben-tH0n/LiDeu9BWQWeTLFoew@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I''m putting together a rails sites with multiple users. I want to
be
> able to refer to each user as:
>
> http://site.com/user/:username
>
> Which works fine - however, it has brought home to me the fact that only
> identifying users by email address could be annoying (ie - having to
> post your email address whenever you post a link to your home on the
> site). But I want to promote transparency in the site and avoid
> complexity - thus I designed the site using only the email address as a
> user identifier.
>
> I guess I''ve decided that I have to support nicknames (login
names) for
> users, for nicer URLs and some spam protection - but I just thought
I''d
> say that it sucks, because I like using email addresses only.
>
> Any thoughts before I re-add a login field to my users table? :/

You need justification?  It is the right thing to do...
email addresses change, so should be a seperate field.

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Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)