Not planned Email verification on registration

[kankan]

Hello,
Upon registration, some users miswrite their email adress.
Suggestion : duplicate field on registration with a control of email in second field.
May be an addon is already doing this ?
Regards

 

[spider]

I think a 'confirm your email' extra input box is not a bad thought. I am guessing you mean both must match to be valid, otherwise it would indicate they do not match (as you say likely a typo could cause that) That kind of idea ?

Username:

Email:

Confirm Email:

Password:

 

[kankan]

Exactly, with a control on the second field to match the first.

 

[whassell20]

Exactly, with a control on the second field to match the first.

Let me know if you find a fix

 

[kankan]

@AddonsLab is planning to port XF1 Addon : https://xenforo.com/community/resources/confirm-email-field-by-addonslab.5546/
to XF2

 

[spider]

In an ideal world maybe (just maybe, only a very small expansion on @kankan idea)

Username:

Email:

Confirm Email:

Password:

Confirm Password:

... then the rest of the form / page. There is no point in asking to confirm Username, that would be silly.

I realise that might make it take a bit longer to complete, vs a quick registration page but it will prevent "problems" I feel, in that you would not have those who registered but either:

1. Did not get the email because they made a typo in the email they supplied
2. Could not login after registering because they made a typo in their password supplied

(2) Is less of a problem as they can reset it but it may cause initial "new user" confusion if they are unable to login.

 

[Kirby]

Pretty much the same discussion as here:
https://xenforo.com/community/posts/1285940/

vBulletin (we still have a lot vBulletin 4 forums) does have a confirmation for both email and password and still there are some rare cases where users manage to mistype their email twice ().
In the majority of cases though users do get it right with just one box.

It has been found out in countless studies that every field you add to asignup form increases abortion rate.

So the question is:
Do want want to decrease bad registrations (due to mistyped email addresses, etc.) a little bit or do we want to annoy everyone with having to input the data twice?

Not sure what others think but my choice is quite clear: I want to have teh signap as simple & fast as possible and I happily accept that a few signups might fail due to invalid email addresses (passwords are a non-issue as they can be reset easily).

 

[Mike]

I want to have teh signap

Given the context of the discussion, this typo is either amusing (or intentional ).

However, it's worth noting that an email typo is not actually that big of a deal, at least if you're doing email verification (and you usually would want to). Every page has a banner indicating that email confirmation is required and it prints the address the mail was sent to. If it's wrong, you can change your address via the account system. Arguably, it's more clear than the password situation because you can see if it's wrong more easily.

If you typo both the email and password and then forget your password, that could cause problems, but there's only so much we can do.

So frankly, I don't see us making any changes here. If you want something like this, it can be implemented entirely via a client side JS check, so you don't necessarily need a fully fledged add-on.

 

[Kirby]

It was intentional of course

Changing the text that is displayed after successful submit of the form might be useful though:

Your account is currently awaiting confirmation., an email containing with your activation code was sent to your@email.tld

Is this address correct? If not, you can change your email address in your accout settings.

If case you are expiriencing any problems activating your account, please contact us.

 

[Mouth]

you're doing email verification (and you usually would want to).

I removed email verification from my site 12+ months ago, and it was striking how much it improved initial engagement and participation. Thus, I disagree with this and suggest to other admins that you usually wouldn't want to. I leave it to bounce handling to manage incorrect email addresses and the limiting of access for such a user account. IMHO, verifying email addresses at registration is just an impediment to the sign-up process and adds no real value - it's a bygone process flow.

 

[Biker]

I removed email verification from my site 12+ months ago, and it was striking how much it improved initial engagement and participation. Thus, I disagree with this and suggest to other admins that you usually wouldn't want to. I leave it to bounce handling to manage incorrect email addresses and the limiting of access for such a user account. IMHO, verifying email addresses at registration is just an impediment to the sign-up process and adds no real value - it's a bygone process flow.

I definitely agree with this. Removing the email verification improves the user experience and results in return visits. We now have additional tools to help weed out undesirables (spammers, trolls, spammers, etc.). I find that the email typos usually come from older registrants, and requiring a confirmation email just drives those users away.