Post in Joining a Group and Registering an Account Using the Web

Feb 08 11:29 UTC

Thanks Tim!

I was aware of the visual issues with the popup-help. I have a fix committed to
SVN, but I have not had a chance to update the servers. (I need both Alice and
Richard to help me change the core CSS file, and today was the first day all
three of us were in this week!)

I am struggling with getting the Set Password page right, and your comments are
extremely helpful in directing my changes. I was confident that the message
about the passwords not matching would cause problems — but it causes fewer
problems than not popping up the message. I will alter the message so it is not
styled as an error, just as plain text. I could be *really* sneaky, and only
pop up a message when the user types in an incorrect letter in the second box,
after entering text in the first box — but no, I think that it will be better
to have a poor algorithm that people can understand.

                              ❦

There is another issue with registration using the Web that Dan though of, and
I had a ponder about while listening to Salmonella Dub. A user may abandon the
registration process part-way through and then want to resume. In this case we
should be able to help the user recover from the mess.
  1. The user to enters his or her email address on the
     initial registration page.
  2. The system notices that the user has one, unverified,
     email address.
  3. Resend the verification message.
  4. Go to the Awaiting Verification page.
  5. Carry on registration, same as before.
In my current state, the above five steps make sense ☺