[aur-dev] [PATCH] Let the user verify their email address

[Marcel Korpel]

* Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer at archlinux.org> (Mon, 17 Aug 2015 04:12:32
+0200):
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 at 02:42:31, Loui Chang wrote:
> > On Sun 16 Aug 2015 19:24 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Marcel Korpel
> > > <marcel.korpel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > I completely understand your frustration, I really hate it,
> > > > too, but to let someone confirm their email address allowing
> > > > copy-pasting would make the check useless. Then we can just
> > > > drop this patch and live with FS#45792.
> > > >
> > > > Any thoughts on this?
> > > 
> > > As far as I am concerned, do whatever you want. Lastpass
> > > overrides the autocomplete=off setting, anyway.
> > 
> > I'd prefer not to add ugly javascript hacks that only work in one
> > or another browser that only serves to babysit users.
> 
> Agreed, we should not dictate whether the user can copy-paste data or
> not. The duplicate field makes it clear that it is important to get
> the email address right. If a user decides to bypass the check, so be
> it.

Phew, actually I'm glad you dislike this stupid behaviour.

> I wonder whether, instead of (in addition to?) this patch, we should
> add a notice that getting the email address right is very important
> and that you will be locked out without any chance to recover if you
> make a typo.

I'm more in favour of a message only, entering email addresses twice is
a nuisance and if you can copy-paste the data, it doesn't serve a
purpose other then to frustrate a user (I fear lots of people don't
understand the meaning of the same field twice).

Instead showing a notice seems better to me, though it doesn't look
that nice: https://ptpb.pw/em7S.png

Suggestions?