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Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by hownottowrite »

octalmage wrote: post #47
hownottowrite wrote: post #32

Sad to see this go... We use @username from external systems that feed into Slack. For example, putting a comment on a Zendesk ticket using @username alerts a person who would normally never pop into Zendesk to have a look.

That's a really cool feature! We could really use that!

If you're feeding Slack with Zendesk now, try putting an internal comment on a ticket with the @. Oh, and since Zendesk forced everyone to the rich-text client you need to escape out of the automatic name selection dropdown or it will show up in Slack as @username which does not trigger the mention.

Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by phdp »

brandon272 wrote: post #49
octalmage wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've got web interfaces and mobile apps. I use 1password and don't have this problem.

I have no interest in logging into a password manager web interface on a public PC. (But that's just me.)

You don't. You pull up your password on your phone and type it in manually onto the computer.

Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by qw »

roblabla wrote: post #41
DougWebb wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of the time when I try that, the site's form validation complains that + is not a valid character. Very annoying. I think most of the time it's due to an over-specific whitelist, and sometimes it's due to url-escaping turning + into a space. Or maybe there's a regex and someone doesn't know how to escape literal + characters.

Yeah, I had that problem with some US govt website when applying for ESTA. I have since fixed the problem : My email is *@roblab.la, and I just put whatever the org's name as the username part of my email. So far it has worked basically everywhere, except on aliexpress, where they disallow aliexpress@EMAIL_DOMAIN. Probably to avoid people posing as staff >_>'.

I tried that too 15 years ago, but had to stop after a year. It turns out many spammers send mails to random usernames

Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by jrochkind1 »

I don't understand what they mean by "Unfortunately, an undocumented approach to mentioning users — — no longer functions. Please reference with the user ID format () instead".

Surely they're not saying slack users need to manually type opaque numeric identifiers to properly mention other users? That would be ridiculous.

Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by [deleted] »

abtinf wrote: post #36
StavrosK wrote: post #22

Slack'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…

I am in a number of different slack orgs. With one email address, I join whatever org I want. > I have multiple email addresses and don't use a specific one every time... I just can't remember which email address I [use] I think I see the problem. I'm not sure how this approach allows you to function on the internet at all.

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Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by distantsounds »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #54

I don't understand what they mean by "Unfortunately, an undocumented approach to mentioning users — — no longer functions. Please reference with the user ID format ( ) instead". Surely they're not saying slack users need to manually type opaque numeric identifiers to properly mention other users? That would be ridiculous.

If it works the way Discord does it, you can @ a display name and it converts it for you automatically on the tab / auto completion.

Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by tomp »

benrbray wrote: post #43
xlii wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Password managers don't help when you need to log in to a computer you don't own, e.g. a public computer at a library or office. Using password managers just makes it easier to lock yourself out when you need access most.

I wonder if there's another way to solve this problem. For example, a plug-in that would store cookies as opposed to passwords - and then "populate" a new session with existing cookies to log you in transparently.

Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by darylfritz »

phdp wrote: post #52
brandon272 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no interest in logging into a password manager web interface on a public PC. (But that's just me.)

You don't. You pull up your password on your phone and type it in manually onto the computer.

> You pull up your password on your phone and type it in manually onto the computer.

Sounds like someone isn't using a 100-character randomly generated password.

Re: A lingering farewell to the username

#59

Post by darylfritz »

brandon272 wrote: post #49
octalmage wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've got web interfaces and mobile apps. I use 1password and don't have this problem.

I have no interest in logging into a password manager web interface on a public PC. (But that's just me.)

Thanks to 2FA, I don't have a huge concern logging into a password manager on a public PC.

Re: A lingering farewell to the username

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Post by netzone »

eugeniub wrote: post #48
barnabee wrote: post #19

I think they're missing the point, Twitter got the display name / username dichotomy right: Display Name: what everyone sees next to your username, no guarantees that you don't change it every 5 minutes though... username: something short you choose and change rarely, can be cool, memorable, fun, and quite creative, always unique [Real Name: who cares, often necessary for work tools even though email ought to be enou…

Twitter has some problems too. People do change their username, and every time they do, all previous tweets mentioning them by @username lead to dead ends.

Just match the mentions to an ID instead of something that's not static.
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