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Would you be happy if I leaked your email onto a highly Google-indexed website upon signing up?
If I took just the bit before the
@I'm still leaking enough info given that most people are on Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo.And then the chances of non-unique usernames are fairly high too.
We did think of this, but there are far too many negatives associated to using the email address as the username. One of the great advantages of having a profile name you can change is the pseudonymity it grants, and we would be shattering that from the outset.
Velocio
Would it not make sense to just use the email address people have signed in with?Gah... Just realised the reason why not... Ignore this