818851 - Can't link MDN account with Persona

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Sign-in, defect)

Description

[Danny Moules]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121128204232

Steps to reproduce:

Trying to access MDN wiki page was forced into registration. Registered with alt. email ([e-mail]), intending to link to MDN account ([e-mail]) later.


Actual results:

Found I can't continue without linking to an MDN profile, but there's no interface to link with my MDN profile so I'm unable to use MDN without creating a new MDN profile (which I do not want to do).


Expected results:

Ideally shouldn't be forced in to creating a registration item for what should be a publicly accessible resource (what's the point of a public API wiki that can't be indexed by spiders?!).

Failing that, want to be able to link my MDN ([e-mail]) with my Persona ([e-mail]).

As an aside, it would be nice if I wasn't forced to access my emails just to access MDN for the 'first time'. My personal email server (the one I use for Mozilla stuff) is blocked at work. I had to bypass our corporate proxy just to create a Persona. This is a horrendous UX.

Comment 1

[Danny Moules]

Ah. Turns out it only forces you in to registration if you follow a broken link (of course, you have no way to know it's broken). So every link I was accessing was forcing me to register because it assumed I wanted to edit something. There was no way to know this is what was happening without trying links from different sites.

Comment 2

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Thanks for the report, Danny. I have opened bug 820442 about the usability issue you mentioned. Is there anything else I can do to help you with your login issue?