[kidentitymanagement] [Bug 363732] New: Account creation system does not allow user to decide their own username

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363732

            Bug ID: 363732
           Summary: Account creation system does not allow user to decide
                    their own username
           Product: kidentitymanagement
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: grave
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: rabcor1 at hotmail.com

Doing my best to contain my anger here, but hey if you want to see how truly
mad I can get about all this... Knock yourself out with this hate rant I made
(just know that I am exaggerating a little, I don't actually want anybody to
die in a fire)
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/874989-mad-at-kde-org-forum

Basically the problem is that every website on the entire face of the internet
as far as I know allows users to either A: Select their own username in
whichever form they choose with little to no restrictions (whether or not that
will actually be their "display name") B: Log in with their e-mail address with
no need to remember a username at all (like bugs.kde.org does, bravo! if
bugs.kde.org didn't use a sane system like this, I wouldn't even be able to
make this bug report because kde identity is a completely broken system the way
I see it, and I can not log in)

Basically what this completely idiotic approach to username generation you have
for the kde identity thing (if I remember correctly I believe it was demanding
a first name and last name, then automatically generating a few possible
usernames based on that and letting the user pick from a list) causes is lots
of new-user anger if they have grown used to using any other websites on the
internet at all before coming here, and users to forget their username which
they apparently are not allowed to do (since your account recovery system
requires you to remember both username and email; and yes I filed a separate
report on that).

All in all I think you should just seriously reconsider this approach and try
doing this in a more normal fashion, not necessarily like everybody else, but
in such a way that it is at least intuitive and usable. Considering how KDE
itself is exactly that for the most part, I am amazed (and appalled) at how
horrible the design choices of this website inside and out (identity system and
the forums) happen to be, it shocked me, it truly did. I have never had such a
bad experience on any other forum site on the internet, think a little on that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create kde identity
2. Rage over how terrible the kde identity system is compared to the rest of
the internet
3. Decide never to come near kde.org forums again (unless this gets fixed and i
get to choose my own fucking username)

Actual Results:  
Anger and hate towards kde.org (for me at least wit ha complete disconnect from
any actual kde projects, I just want everything to burn when I see kde.org)

Expected Results:  
A sane and normal account creation system and forum use experience consistent
with the rest of the internet.

Seriously, this needs to be fixed. And the motherfucking cashew needs to have
an option to remove it, one of the major reasons I do not use KDE is the lack
of such an option out of the box; the other major reason is that I just think
it's slow and clunky in general, hoping it may improve after the wayland port
but I will stick with enlightenment, xfce and/or cinnamon unless kde actually
improves (and greatly) on the performance level. I'm done.

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