Crowdfunding the creation of the next version of LFGSS

Persona does not let me choose or edit any username, I can only add/remove e-mail addresses or reset my password?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-manage-my-persona-account

I'm probably doing it wrong

Persona is used for email + password authentication.

Persona gives you the ability to use multiple email addresses, and then choose which one you want to share with a site.

Persona does not do usernames or avatars.

Once you've authenticated and are on Microcosm, we need to give you a username... and for now we just use whatever is before the @ symbol in your email address.

You can change your username by clicking your avatar in the top right hand corner (we will make that more obvious... we just put the link there for now).

You can change your avatar by going to http://en.gravatar.com/ and setting an avatar against your email.

We are using Persona as it gives you far more security and does actually solve a lot of problems. With Persona, one really trusted party holds your password, and we never would. Which is a good thing. It also means that developers who make other clients will never have access to your password, also a good thing.

We'd like to continue with Persona, as the benefits outweigh the cons.

We use Gravatar because we're lazy and needed avatars but haven't prioritised building that bit... and using Gravatar is so easy for us as devs that we just put it in. But, it's a bit of a bad experience for you, signing up initially on Gravatar is a really bad user experience.

Gravatar is convenient, but we're likely to roll our own avatars eventually as the benefits of us doing so outweight the negative (mostly in user experience, and as page speed is dependent on the performance of Gravatar we could probably best it by using CloudFlare).