[wp-hackers] Changing username - WordPress

[Robert Lusby]

On 09/05/2012 13:36, Mika A Epstein wrote:
> Speaking from a purely administrative standpoint, users who change their username come in two kinds.
>
> 1) People who made bad usernames and want to rectify their lack of foresight
> 2) a**hats who like to pretend to be other people, just to piss you off
>
> Because of #2, I've always been pro-locking a username down. Display name, fine. But your user name is your username. Choose wisely, Indy.
>

Thanks Mika. Been having this discussion recently, and came to the 
conclusion that "email address" is best practise for a username.

Users can remember it, it saves having to create "another" unique 
identifer (email address should be unique anyway), and provides for a 
quicker "sign-up" process.

The down side - of course - being that email addresses change (hence the 
question above). Quite sure there will be people on both sides of the 
fence on this one.

Rob.