Migrating from Invision, username login and tags

[Zenxx]

We are considering migrating from Invision. One important reason is that username login is removed in the latest revision, 5.x.
Do Xenforo have any plans to remove this?

Also, we are using closed tag system, will this work the same way in Xenforo?

 

[Ricsca]

You can log in with either a user name or email address.

 

[Suzanne O]

@MySiteGuy can help you with the migration of your site.
With the username login check your settings. Sometimes when you have registrations turned off it switches that off too.

 

[Zenxx]

Thanks, but my question was if Xenforo have any plans to remove username login?
Invision did that in their latest generation. For reasons I haven't understand...

 

[Ricsca]

We don't know what Xf will do in the future. For now you can log in with both username and email, but it's still preferable to use email for security reasons because email is private and not public. But above all, what does it change for you since users are shown with their username?

 

[Slavik]

Do Xenforo have any plans to remove this?

I cant think of any reason we would...

 

[Zenxx]

Many thanks Slavik!

But above all, what does it change for you since users are shown with their username?

It's an old forum and we have reasons to believe that many of our long-time members doesn't know which email address they used when registering. It can be an email provider that got extinct 20 years ago.

In 25 years we are not aware on any account hijacking so in respect to security email-only login has no advantages for us, only disadvantages.

 

[Ricsca]

In my opinion, this isn't a problem because if a user forgets their email address or it's no longer active, they can simply send you a message from the contact page. The number of users who no longer have active email addresses and want to log in to your site will certainly be very few and manageable.

 

[Zenxx]

With 100k+ users it might not be just a simple job. Better to keep username login as an option.

 

[PhineasD]

I think it's much easier to remember an email address that's used for more than just registering on a forum, than a username used on a specific website.

 

[Zenxx]

It might be for some, but it's not about deleting email-login, but to keep both options.

 

[Rene_V]

With 100k+ users it might not be just a simple job. Better to keep username login as an option.

I agree. I never understood why Ips removed that option. It didn't make much sense to me.