# Ask username after validating e-mail

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ask-username-after-validating-e-mail/327484>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** ux\
**Created:** [September 20, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ask-username-after-validating-e-mail/327484 "2024-09-20T23:56:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 23, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ask-username-after-validating-e-mail/327484/3 "2024-09-23T23:22:46Z")

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> [@satonotdead](#):
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> That should make the registration process easier and will improve the registration rates.

Could be if there are less steps to create an account more people would do that. This may be a new feature request or dev topic to figure out if that is possible or not.

There is a default setting allowing username to be changed within first three days of new account being created. Maybe you could have a random name generator create temporary name for new accounts which can be changed.

There is the staged user account feature which creates a partial account based on only e-mail if someone sends in e-mail to discourse site, don’t know if that would work for your use-case.

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