Dumb move. YouTube did this and it sucked.
A lingering farewell to the username
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Re: A lingering farewell to the username
#22Slack's authentication flow is the dumbest I've ever had the misfortune of using. I'm a member of multiple Slack organizations, and it needs one login per organization. I can't just have a single email address and join whatever org I want, I have to remember which email address I used for each one, otherwise I can't log in!
I have multiple email addresses and don't use a specific one every time, so I have managed to lock myself out of many orgs because I just can't remember which email address I used.
If you click the "forgot my email" link, they go "have you forgotten which email address you used to log in to which org? Just tell us your email address and we'll tell you which orgs it's logged in to", which is exactly the opposite of what I want!
It's such a clusterfuck that I just avoid joining new orgs nowadays because I know I'll never be able to log in again.
Re: A lingering farewell to the username
#23They also removed your username/display name from your default highlight strings. We often just use names with no @, and this week we noticed that other people were no longer getting pinged for those. Now you have to go to your preferences and explicitly add your display name to the list of strings you want to be notified about.
Re: A lingering farewell to the username
#24Slack's authentication flow is the dumbest I've ever had the misfortune of using. I'm a member of multiple Slack organizations, and it needs one login per organization . I can't just have a single email address and join whatever org I want, I have to remember which email address I used for each one, otherwise I can't log in! I have multiple email addresses and don't use a specific one every time, so I have managed to…
That does sound pretty annoying, but it seems the simple solution from your end is to have a system for how you generate logins.
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#25That is the most verbose and confusing post about a seemingly simple change I've ever read.
"What's changing? Everything and nothing is changing" really doesn't help.
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#26So how is it gonna work now if I use irc gateway?
Re: A lingering farewell to the username
#27Slack's authentication flow is the dumbest I've ever had the misfortune of using. I'm a member of multiple Slack organizations, and it needs one login per organization . I can't just have a single email address and join whatever org I want, I have to remember which email address I used for each one, otherwise I can't log in! I have multiple email addresses and don't use a specific one every time, so I have managed to…
Have you tried using password manager?
The one I'm using has capability to store multiple logins for the same site with easily-searchable notes (i.e. Displayed in pop up when on site).
For some sites I have like 20 sets of credentials and I never had a problem with keeping up with them.
Re: A lingering farewell to the username
#28Slack's authentication flow is the dumbest I've ever had the misfortune of using. I'm a member of multiple Slack organizations, and it needs one login per organization . I can't just have a single email address and join whatever org I want, I have to remember which email address I used for each one, otherwise I can't log in! I have multiple email addresses and don't use a specific one every time, so I have managed to…
Many email systems support username variants. If you have "username@gmail.com", you can do:
username+organization@gmail.com
Why remember things when you can have a formula to determine which username to use?
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#29what the heck? this is the stupidest move I've ever seen from Slack. Combine this with a lack of using floating windows (like Messenger on Android) and it's clear that the company is run by operations and sales --- not product. There is clear space to move in on Slack's terroritory
>Combine this with a lack of using floating windows
Floating windows? As if they are supposed to be good stuff?
Floating windows and MDI UIs have been phased out in most OSes, apps and GUI toolkits in the last decades favor for far more stable and intuitive docked sidebars and toolbars.
Edit: Is what I wrote inaccurate? Or it's just fans of floating windows voting this down?
Re: A lingering farewell to the username
#30In general the idea of a username is slowly being killed of across the web. In the 90s when I got my first computer few would have been "crazy" enough to user their real name. The anonymity of the web back then was so much fun. Google and Facebook really started to kill that off and nowadays most sites just use an email address for a login if they are not already using your Gmail or Facebook for auth. Long live the u…
Requiring comments be attached to a real identity invariably does the exact opposite of what it intends to and lowers the quality of commentary. Sure, some people use the cloak of anonymity to perpetrate abuse, misinformation or low-effort participation, but the alternative has a chilling effect on potentially thoughtful commenters who don’t want to become targets.
It doesn’t really get rid of the anonymous abuse or disinformation either, because there are plenty of bots using fake social network identities out there.
The real people that do remain invariably put about as much thought into their contributions as they do into the long-term consequences of associating those comments with their real identity, or are simply so angry or strident that they don’t care.
Without real identities I would encounter islands of reason adrift in a sea of inanity. With real identities, I tend to see the loud and ignorant shouting at (or alongside) bots.