feature request: generate password on sign up
Bug #676822 reported by
Yuv
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Canonical SSO provider |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In the process of evaluating Launchpad as a bug tracker for our Open Source project I collected feedback from our users that would potentially report bugs.
One of the biggest burden to them is account creation. Specifically password creation.
How about generating and displaying the initial password, rather than asking the user to fill two frustrating fields at sign up? Users can always change their password later on if they want to.
affects: | launchpad-foundations → canonical-identity-provider |
tags: | added: proj-improve-signup |
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Thanks for the feature request! I've seen this approach on a number of systems and it *can* reduce the impedance on account creation if done right. I've also seen it done badly so we'd want to be careful to avoid that. In summary, I like your suggestion so it's definitely up for consideration but it won't see any activity for a while as we're going to need to gather statistics over time on the current approach, review other approaches to this and then do some pretty thorough design and user testing before we change the current process globally.