Another alternative is to explicitly support multiple
usernames under an
umbrella backend account... (Anybody remember AOL screen names? BLAST FROM
THE PAST)
Making umbrella backend account could be one of the answers. But
implementation of umbrella backend account requires massive
user/authentication code updates, table schema changes and massive
auto account merges(which accounts have same emails) than other ways.
Anyway I think umbrella idea is the most nice one.
2015-02-21 3:51 GMT+09:00 Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Another alternative is to explicitly support multiple
usernames under an
umbrella backend account... (Anybody remember AOL screen names? BLAST FROM
THE PAST)
>
> I don't know whether that's something to encourage, but it would simplify
> those cases.
>
> -- brion
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Isarra Yos <zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 20/02/15 17:28, Brion Vibber wrote:
>>
>>> IMO we should strongly discourage use of multiple accounts with the same
>>> email to the point of forbidding it in software for new accounts.[1]
>>>
>>> Figuring out how to migrate those old accounts is something that needs to
>>> be considered and worked out, but it shouldn't hold up work on making
the
>>> login/reset form accept email addresses for the common case.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] I personally have a bunch of test accounts that probably have the same
>>> email, and I'm sure some folks have bots and other things set up
>>> similarly.
>>> Note that many email providers including Gmail allow email aliases with
>>> "+"
>>> and something else after your mailbox name, such as 'johndoe+testing99
at
>>> wikimedia.org'; I've used this in the past to have separate accounts
on
>>> one
>>> email for Apple and other providers as well.
>>>
>>> -- brion
>>>
>>
>> Please see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#
>> Legitimate_uses for a non-comprehensive list of use cases for alternate
>> accounts. Requiring separate emails, or expecting users to know that
>> particular trick, would be problematic for many of these, and may even
>> encourage some users to not use an email address at all.
>>
>> -I
>>
>>
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