Currently the email doubles as the username, which makes this ricky, but people change institutions (and thus emails) and I think it's in our interest to not have them have to create new accounts constantly.
@qqmyers would need to chime in with what's possible. I think the cleanest solution would be along these lines:
- create a username that's entirely separate from the email address, but create it automatically (e.g. as email name followed by a numeric suffix if needed
- allow login either with current email address or with username
- provide an interface to change email address (this should leave the username unchanged, though, of course).
Currently the email doubles as the username, which makes this ricky, but people change institutions (and thus emails) and I think it's in our interest to not have them have to create new accounts constantly.
@qqmyers would need to chime in with what's possible. I think the cleanest solution would be along these lines: