I have multiple email addresses and don't use a specific one every time, so I have managed to lock myself out of many orgs because I just can't remember which email address I used.
If you click the "forgot my email" link, they go "have you forgotten which email address you used to log in to which org? Just tell us your email address and we'll tell you which orgs it's logged in to", which is exactly the opposite of what I want!
It's such a clusterfuck that I just avoid joining new orgs nowadays because I know I'll never be able to log in again.
The one I'm using has capability to store multiple logins for the same site with easily-searchable notes (i.e. Displayed in pop up when on site).
For some sites I have like 20 sets of credentials and I never had a problem with keeping up with them.
Password managers do salvage this particular trainwreck, but it's still a wreck.
username+organization@gmail.com
Why remember things when you can have a formula to determine which username to use?
> I have multiple email addresses and don't use a specific one every time... I just can't remember which email address I [use]
I think I see the problem. I'm not sure how this approach allows you to function on the internet at all.
For example I have three slack channels: 1. Our Company 2. 500 Startups 3. The information
Each had different requirements so they all needed a different handle - even if I was using the same email.
It should be Single Sign On.
Within the technology parts of our org everyone knows each other by handle, and we still let people pick their own handle when they join. It's even pretty common to only know people by handle and not their real/full name. Monday morning and all of a sudden you can't ping a colleague anymore by @username, you have no idea why and now you need to know or find out what their first name is. Eventually that got fixed for everyone but it made Monday worse than usual.
I'm also not sure how this is going to interact with Enterprise Grid though. Since display names aren't unique you can get two people in a channel with the same display name. So if you now ping @John The Ripper, does it bug both, does it not go anywhere?
Thankfully they've fixed that now but yeesh.
Display Name: what everyone sees next to your username, no guarantees that you don't change it every 5 minutes though...
username: something short you choose and change rarely, can be cool, memorable, fun, and quite creative, always unique
[Real Name: who cares, often necessary for work tools even though email ought to be enough]
But it may very well be for good reason. E.g. lets say an account is taken over by someone who changes the account into something suitably offensive after obtaining a lot of mentions. It would seem that treating a change as basically "this is a new account now" is the safest alternative in some respects.
Surely they're not saying slack users need to manually type opaque numeric identifiers to properly mention other users? That would be ridiculous.
From an engineering perspective, those who have Slack API integrations may be affected.
Long live the username on hacker news.
It doesn’t really get rid of the anonymous abuse or disinformation either, because there are plenty of bots using fake social network identities out there.
The real people that do remain invariably put about as much thought into their contributions as they do into the long-term consequences of associating those comments with their real identity, or are simply so angry or strident that they don’t care.
Without real identities I would encounter islands of reason adrift in a sea of inanity. With real identities, I tend to see the loud and ignorant shouting at (or alongside) bots.
I almost never discuss politics, philosophy, important personal subjects or really anything of substance on Facebook. It's become purely for staking a tether to a few hundred key individuals I want to keep track of but don't need/want to talk to more than very rarely. Most of these contacts are not close friends or people I see any point in arguing with (especially after seeing the content of the most prolific posters).
Do you remember when Google actually encouraged people to use anonymous user names? [What a 180 they did!] This was the default, established early on, for good reason. It is a true democratizer, casting aside all to distinguish anyone but their words and/or choice of posts. With one stroke, it eliminates racism, sexism, ableism, name recognition bias, fashion snobbery and all other means of discrimination by appearance or public life. It also raises the bar for one to be taken seriously, as anything you say can be fact-checked immediately.
The cult of personality infecting user representation on the internet has been a tragedy to watch unfold. People would rather copy and paste words (usually out of context) from someone on a pedestal to glorify or vilify than take the extra step of vetting or responding meaningfully to what they say. I guess I should have expected it, but it's still hard not to be disappointed.
TL;DR edit-- I meandered a bit, sorry. My point is that user anonymity results in a more level playing field for discourse. Certain discussions of substance benefit greatly from this. In the world of real names, ad hominem attacks or hero worship all too easily derail productive debate. This can happen in anonymous forums as well, but from my experience it's much better corrected for in those places.
Sounds like it's time to say a lingering farewell to Slack.
1. Like with LinkedIn I need to be able to use multiple e-mail addresses, but the current system of having to log in separately to each account is a mess.
2. I want to be able to quickly mentioned people based on a username without having to go via a disruptive dialog box. Not least because I want to be able to mention people outside Slack and have integrations find the right person.
Display names are nice as an addition, but not as a replacement.
"What's changing? Everything and nothing is changing" really doesn't help.
Floating windows? As if they are supposed to be good stuff?
Floating windows and MDI UIs have been phased out in most OSes, apps and GUI toolkits in the last decades favor for far more stable and intuitive docked sidebars and toolbars.
Edit: Is what I wrote inaccurate? Or it's just fans of floating windows voting this down?
This announcement anticipates (a) getting developers to use surrogate UIDs instead of @username for mentions, and (b) that their clients will only use display names in the future and rely on specific UI elements to distinguish ambiguous ones.
[0] https://medium.com/slack-developer-blog/network-effects-gett...
You can set your username to whatever you want (e.g. "jakebasile"). You then get a randomly assigned four digit number appended to the end (e.g. #5024). To add someone as a friend, you need the full username#0000, but thereafter it is not needed. To mention someone in a chat (in Discord) you type @ and then start typing - it will match on either the user name or display name, but only complete the user name. The key is that when you actually send the message it will show that user's display name in chat and notify them as you'd expect. Display names in discord can be overridden at the server level and in Battle.net games there is the concept of Real ID instead which you can choose to share your real name on a per person basis.
In both of these situations you are only using one account and one username across either multiple games or multiple servers. This avoids having to use many different accounts within the same application which is one of my primary gripes with Slack.
Does Slack feel like having usernames somewhat visible and end-user facing makes the product "too nerdy" for a general audience?
so how do I mention someone now? I still have to type @ for autocomplete, and even if I type the realy name [return] completes to @username...