Filling in discourse_username when not using DiscourseConnect

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Oh, sorry — I was sure I answered that before but I guess… I didn’t? Maybe I just thought about it! Anyway:

  1. The email is initially synced from the SSO for both WordPress and Discourse. However, due to popular demand, we allow people to change that email on Discourse. (It turns out to be frequent to want Discourse notifications going somewhere other than the email associated directly with the login.) It is also possible to change the email address on Wordpress, but I don’t know of anyone who does that, or even if outgoing email on that instance works.

  2. By “user id”, I meant “username”. The username is always[1] taken from the SSO for both Discourse and Wordpress and can’t be changed by the user in either case. For some reason unknown to me but which probably made sense at the time, this is nickname on our SSO side; this is mapped to oauth2 json username path.

  1. Actually it turns out that there are few accounts like my own which happen to have been set up before we had the SSO, and they’re wrong — I’m “Matthew Miller” instead of mattdm. But we could clean that up. ↩︎