[opensource-dev] separation between login id and publicly visible id(s) (was: display names = the end of 1.x viewers?)

[Joel Foner]

>
> As Josh and others have said, one of the things we'd need is a unique
> secret account identifier. Unfortunately the only existing account datum
> which might work here is email address, and that's not unique, though we're
> starting to think that it really should be
>

Just a quick note... email addresses change fairly regularly. Basing the
permanent unique account identifier on a transient token seems bound to
create problems in the longer term due to user movements from one email
address to another, and old addresses become invalid and even forgotten by
users.

Joel
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