Easier account signup using email codes

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Here are other problems.

You’re at /login and type your username in the “Email/username” field. After the initial confusion I mentioned above, you click “Email me a one-time login code”. This brings you to the “Welcome back” page, where the “Email” field is pre-populated with your username (problem no.1). When you absent-mindedly click “Continue” you get three red messages all at once (problem no.2):

  1. Incorrect username, email or password
  2. :warning: Fix this error to continue - Email - Please enter a valid email address
  3. :warning: Please enter a valid email address

The “Login with your password instead” text beside the next “Continue” button looks a bit like a description of the Continue button, but that’s not a big problem.

Then you click “Continue”. It goes to the “Welcome back - Check your email” screen, but the “Incorrect username, email or password” error is still there (problem no.3).

Here, the extra links (“Resend code”, “Use a different email address”) are below “Continue” and it’s clearer they’re something else.

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:information_source: Adding a note here to confirm that going forward, random username generation is not enabled by default along with this upcoming change, and is fully opt-in. The first post of this topic has been updated accordingly.

Thanks to everyone here for the feedback.

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Personally I hate when verification or login mails have no links to click, so I would appreciate if you add an option to turn this as site preference.

having the email and the code as the first signup step is nice, but I wonder if entering an email (and sending a mail) without agreeing to data protection terms is acceptable? As already mentioned, it needs to fit into moderator approval (I.e. don’t send “activate your account” if that is not a given)

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