User account & profile

[paulschneider]

Im just starting work on the user management side of things. I am working from the wireframe below.

The fields I will be working with, taken from this wireframe, are :

• nickname
• firstname
• lastname
• postcode
• age group

How would you see the age group bit working? I currently have a DB table with age-ranges as per the wireframes, so would you like a separate endpoint where you can grab that information from or return it as part of an initialisation call?

[paulschneider]

First question I have being where is the nickname used and do you need it as part of the returned used object following authentication?

[pablocarrillo]

I think this is more a question for Tom, because I don't know what they want to store and where to use it. I sent to Tom an email with this issue and he would answer you ASAP.

[gingertom]

Hi, I don't really know to be honest. If/when we integrate with disqus we could use the nickname for posting comments on articles? That doesn't answer your question directly but it might start pointing us in the right direction. Also I suspect that we might end up asking gender as well.

[paulschneider]

Okay cool. At the moment I have it as a required field when completing the profile (not the same as registering) so it will be captured and when you decide when and where you want to use it it'll be there.

Gender will be easy to add if/when that decision is made :)

Cheers,