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Comment on Usernames: allow, require, or forbid users to user their email address as a username?

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the key, is that it limits the amount of information you need from the user to create a relationship with them.

getting an email address and password is the bare min you need to communicate with them.

in some cases, i have only requested an email address and then sent the password in the mail. this solves a number of problems and if the user just uses the password, then you can assure they have a somewhat secure one.

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