Registration issues

Victorine Courtois
Victorine Courtois
in Product

A potential client recently pointed these out to me (and I filed these under Bugs to Fix in Teamwork):

1) The only listed password requirement is six characters. However, using "abcdef", which is six characters, still fails, probably due to the password strength being "very weak". This makes the password requirements unclear. Perhaps upping this requirement to 8 characters will simplify things by naturally bringing the password strength up to at least "weak". If not this, then we do need to make clear that password strength should be at least "weak".

2) On a forum with Approval Registration, the "Why do you want to join?" field appears and is required to continue registration. There is no visual indication that this field is required. Perhaps adding (required) would be useful here.

Realistically, if anyone's using passwords like "abcdef", they deserve to have the registration fail, IMHO, but it still makes for an awkward user experience.

Also, I personally understand that the "why do you want to join?" field is required when you're, you know, REQUESTING ACCESS, but it's not visually clear that this is required.

Comments

  • Vanilla Forums
    Vanilla Forums
    edited February 2015

    For product enhancements like this, it would be really great to get them on GitHub as individual issues so they're in our workflow. To cross-reference a Teamwork task, you can just paste a link or say something like "TW ##########" with the number of the task from the URL.

    There would go on the core ("vanilla") repository.

    I'm not aware of a hidden requirement for passwords (beyond length) being a default configuration, so this was not on my radar at all.

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