Closed Bug 687097 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Registration failures due to duplicate email need notification text

Categories

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, defect, P2)

Product:
Participation Infrastructure
Component:
Phonebook
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 689329

People

(Reporter: ozten, Unassigned)

Details

Currently if a user tries to register an account with an email address that is already in the system, the registration fails. There is no good message on why it failed. We should do something better to prevent user confusion.
Just so we're clear: saying "this email address is already in use" confirms the existence of a user account. We should rate-limit the register page in the future to prevent harvesting, but I think any message that doesn't confirm existence of that account/email is terrible UX, so we need to make that trade-off.
Assignee: nobody → tofumatt
Target Milestone: --- → 1.0
Yeah, this is fugux and really easy to find.
Priority: -- → P1
Assignee: tofumatt → nobody
This is just some text associated to it, setting it as a P2
Priority: P1 → P2
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Verified duplicate.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: mozillians.org → Phonebook
Product: Websites → Community Tools
QA Contact: mozillians-org → phonebook
Target Milestone: 1.0 → ---
Version: unspecified → other
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