Pending subdomain name disappears on restore

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Pending subdomain name disappears on restore #1636

Open kantai opened 6 years ago

kantai commented 6 years ago

This isn't so much a bug, as a usability surprise -- if your subdomain name is pending, and you restore your account, the subdomain name won't appear when you restore. This has caused some confusion amongst users (it was reported a couple of times in our Slack).

yknl commented 6 years ago

The proposed solution for this as discussed in the community engineering meeting today is to encrypt and add the pending username to the user's profile.json. This way, if the user tries to restore an ID with a pending username, the browser will be able to display the name and pending status.