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Friday, March 19. 2010
A hidden login feature
There are people who like to change their BrainKing user name every week, some of them even more often. Well, it is not against the rules and if they feel compelled to do it, it is only their business. 
The only "problem" emerges when such a name chameleon suddenly forgets what name he changed to for the last time, which leads to "Help, I cannot log in BrainKing, it says invalid user name or password!" screaming and panicking. My mailbox confirms this theory because I receive this kind of message almost every 2 weeks.
The solution is very easy and it might be suitable for people who do not change their user name as well. Since today, it is possible to enter either user name or email address (which is registered with your BrainKing account) to the login form. And if you use your correct password, BrainKing should log you in. No matter how many times you modify your user name - just remember your email and you are safe forever.
The "User Name" label at the login form will be probably renamed to "user name or email address" soon. Until then, it is a hidden (but useful) feature.
The only "problem" emerges when such a name chameleon suddenly forgets what name he changed to for the last time, which leads to "Help, I cannot log in BrainKing, it says invalid user name or password!" screaming and panicking. My mailbox confirms this theory because I receive this kind of message almost every 2 weeks.The solution is very easy and it might be suitable for people who do not change their user name as well. Since today, it is possible to enter either user name or email address (which is registered with your BrainKing account) to the login form. And if you use your correct password, BrainKing should log you in. No matter how many times you modify your user name - just remember your email and you are safe forever.
The "User Name" label at the login form will be probably renamed to "user name or email address" soon. Until then, it is a hidden (but useful) feature.
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even if do not change name every 2 weeks you can forget your email... I do not like to much opponents name changing, I find this quite confusing. Maybe you could make name change possible for 100 brains or so?
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sounds great to me...even though i've never changed my username in all the years i've been on brainking. maybe i will, since it's so easy.
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ah, darn...the only thing i'd want to change my username to is one character longer than the username field will accept. 
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If your settings don't delete "form and search history", then you can click in the name box when it is empty and it will bring up all the names you've used. Or at least all of the names you've used since the last time you cleared your "form and search history". Or at least that's what happens on my Firefox browser, other platforms may vary.
Same thing should work for your email should you happen to forget it, heaven forbid. Same thing should never work with your password.
Same thing should work for your email should you happen to forget it, heaven forbid. Same thing should never work with your password.
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