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The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
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E-mail needs to be entered twice on the registration page #464

Closed Zverik closed 2 years ago

Zverik commented 11 years ago

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new What the "Confirm e-mail" field is for? I can understand the reason for password confirmation (it is hidden), but e-mail is right there.

I propose to remove this redundancy.

tomhughes commented 11 years ago

It was entirely deliberate, because of the number of people that seemed to manage to typo their email and then not get the confirmation mail and have to come asking me to manually fix the database.

Zverik commented 11 years ago

Can there be another solution? The problem I see with this is when a user enters incorrect e-mail, they cannot start registration from scratch, because the user name is already "taken". But maybe it is possible to allow "overtaking" a user name for unconfirmed e-mails which registered less than a week ago and have no edits/diary entries/traces?

tomhughes commented 11 years ago

What's wrong with just getting them to confirm it?!?

Zverik commented 11 years ago

Availability of copy-paste actions in most modern browsers, I guess. Confirmation field is not a solution, but a plug. It solves some of such problems only by chance. And it adds an extra field for new users to fill, which seems pointless, and is probably driving away some of them.

gravitystorm commented 6 years ago

I agree with @Zverik that it would be good to remove the duplicate email field, but of course not if that just makes more work for the sysadmins.

In my experience of running another site, people sign up with the wrong address all the time. But they soon realise it and just sign up again with the correct address, and life goes on.

I would suggest: