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Public area => The Pub => Topic started by: Auk on June 15th, 2013, 02:52 PM

Title: Registration process
Post by: Auk on June 15th, 2013, 02:52 PM

Is it just me that I find it bothersome that the majority of registration process in many online communities would first gather your input to become a member of their website, and then before you can verify your email address and such, you're already counted as a member/signed up?

I believe that it would be better if the applicant would simply just provide their email, they follow the temporary url in their email to then become a full member (The real sign up form.)

Inaccurate userbase count, and who recently became a member is not my cup of tea. (I've been thinking about this for months whether or not if this is a big deal and couldn't get over this.)

Title: Re: Registration process
Post by: Arantor on June 15th, 2013, 03:58 PM

I'm not sure those are counted in member stats in SMF or Wedge actually. Certainly a member account has status 0 until the email is submitted rather than status 1 which is active. (There are a bunch of other statuses but those are the key values here)

I'd have to check to be sure.

Title: Re: Registration process
Post by: nik on July 31st, 2013, 11:44 PM

I agree the signup process would be much better if new users:

- provide ONLY email address (nothing else) then submit
- click verification link from email
- provide password to complete the signup process

Title: Re: Registration process
Post by: Arantor on August 1st, 2013, 03:56 AM

Um, that's actually not what's being discussed and can't be done without totally re-engineering many, many things. It would also almost certainly prevent login-via-Facebook if I remember rightly.