[nodel-discuss] cant make new account on website

[lisa haskel]

hi rob,
thats because an account was automatically created for you when your
posting to this (discuss) list got pulled into the forum.
new accounts are created for all users the system thinks are new when
a posting gets made using the name related to your email address in
your email account settings.
i need to get my thinking cap on to see how we can stop these
"duplicate" accounts being created.  it is a bit of an issue.

i'll unblock your account and send you the info.

cheers

lisa

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Rob Canning <rob at goto10.org> wrote:
> hi lisa
>
> technical detail...
> when i try and make an account on the new website it says the username email
> already exists
> when i try and get a password reminder it says there is no such username email
> or that the username email is not yet activated or is blocked
>
> maybe its just me... just thought i would let you know... sorry if its somthing
> my end
>
> rob c
>
>
> lisa haskel said :
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Its great to see interest generated by the web site, even when spiky
>> at times.   And many thanks for the acknowledgement of my work.  I've
>> been very grateful for the loyal and consistent support. I think the
>> kick-off meeting at Cremer street that saul referred to made a very
>> good start. Its been a reference point for everybody which we've
>> refined but not wavered too far from, even though the development
>> timescale has been pretty extended on my part.  So thanks to everyone
>> who's contributed and stuck with it.
>>
>> So maybe this is a good moment to recap where we are at:
>>
>> I think we have a feature-set now that covers the main concerns.  (see
>> http://wiki.nodel.org/index.php/Features_List), and the data migration
>> is well on the way now.  I've been working on it a bit intermittently
>> but hope it will be complete on the new site within about 3 weeks.
>>
>> The data migration will include all the users from the "old" site. I
>> am intending to migrate them in as "blocked", and at a time of our
>> choosing we can send an (automated) email to all the users inviting
>> them to set a new password and activate their account.
>>
>> Design is a huge issue which I think we've covered.  If we can get
>> some good, well coded standards complient designs as flat html/css
>> pages that will be a good start and as Saul suggests; a session with
>> some of the early adopters with the designer would be good to ensure
>> the ethos carries through.
>>
>> However for me equally big is the issue of user documentation / help
>> and general test and refinement of the site.  Its very tedious but
>> very important. Every form field label and explanation/help text will
>> go a long way to making our site useable.  It would be great to work
>> on this with some others.  We'll also discover bugs this way.
>>
>> We already had the idea to make some screencasts for how to add
>> different "content types".  I'm enjoying going to "Jelly" at Space
>> studios on Thursdays to work on nodel:
>> (http://nodel.southspace.org/event/jelly) and Laura Lee has already
>> given very useful feedback.
>>
>> If anybody would like to join on those days for some casual
>> co-working, including screencasting and nodel... would be great.  And
>> also if anyone wants to checkout the code and do any refinements
>> themselves, its all in subversion so contact me for a password.
>>
>> We'll talk more soon...
>>
>> Best to all,
>>
>> Lisa
>>
>>
>> ps. I take the open streetmap point. its not difficult to switch this
>> as the code if very modular; i'm just prioritising the bigger tasks
>> like data migration first.
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