Posts Tagged ‘authentication’

The debate over username versus email login has been raging for some time now (see here or here for instance), and is now of particular importance for the ftopia file sharing community.

Up till now, signing into ftopia has been done through a username. This allowed users to pick their own personalised name, and to log into several different accounts independently of the others.

However, we eventually found that these abilities have become liabilities. Having to remember two or more usernames and two separate passwords can be a pain at the best of times. It also meant that you would have to sign out and then sign back in again every time you wanted to switch from one account to the other. Read the rest of this entry »