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I am recently making some updates to my site and I was wondering if its a good idea to remove the email confirmation upon registration. Are there any disadvantages to this approach?
I'm considering dropping email verification, but I believe that 80% I get now is a very good rate.
Biggest thing to consider is your MTA. You have to have SPF at a minimum and domainkeys is getting pretty important too. Outsource your email if you can.
Only that it's the most common method of recovering or verifying an account if something goes wrong (e.g. forgotten password).
Doesn't necessarily mean it has to be part of registration though.
Have you considered using OpenID? You can get the user's email from that.
It depends upon the application. I run a semi-popular forum, so I require email addresses to keep the ban evaders, trolls, and spambots out. If you think you're going to have problems with the former two, keep the email requirement. However, if you're not doing a community related thing where everybody has to play nice, like a service app like Basecamp, feel free to not require it.
oldgregg is bang on target...and I would second his notion.
Keep the confirmation but go ahead and let them into the site... If they haven't clicked the link for a few days send a couple reminders... after a week just disable their account.