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DragonHawk from An insignificant little blue planet Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#1: Nov 12th 2013 at 6:06:44 AM

A suggestion, submitted for your approval.

Two parts:

(1) The "Add Email" page (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/associate_email.php) should be linked to from the user profile page (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/profile.php).

This would be a minor human factors improvement. This is just where I expected to find an option to edit an aspect of my account. I suspect others would, too. Since the left side tools list isn't present on that page, it was confusing. "I know I saw an option for this..."

(2) The email address(es) that has been associated with the account should be displayed on the user profile page.

This would let one confirm their email address has been successfully added. It would also let one check to see *which* email address they used with the site after they've forgotten.

Hope this helps, thanks for all the fish, etc.

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#2: Nov 12th 2013 at 10:12:56 PM

Cool. I like easy to implement suggestions like this. Will do. Have done.

edited 14th Nov '13 2:18:27 AM by FastEddie

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Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#3: Nov 20th 2013 at 11:39:57 AM

I don't think the email address should be displayed on the profile by default. There should be a checked option to show or hide it. And I'm pretty sure having (address)@(domain) display in plain text form makes the email susceptible for spam.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#4: Nov 20th 2013 at 12:00:24 PM

That doesn't make any sense. Who would skim addresses to spam from their own profile page? Unless you have spyware on your computer, of course, but then that's the least of your concerns.

edited 20th Nov '13 12:00:55 PM by Fighteer

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Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#5: Nov 20th 2013 at 12:05:50 PM

I'm concerned that an email on plain text will be caught by bots unless measures are taken.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#6: Nov 20th 2013 at 12:06:42 PM

... by somehow entering into the TV Tropes database? No, I don't know how anyone could find your e-mail address.

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Trivialis Since: Oct, 2011
#7: Nov 20th 2013 at 12:09:41 PM

Maybe if you're logged into the account on a network?

Point is that plainly displaying an email is generally a bad idea without further measures.

edited 20th Nov '13 12:10:17 PM by Trivialis

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Odd1 Still just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
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#9: Dec 12th 2013 at 3:08:50 AM

I do think Trivialis has a good point, especially since the site's security, to be blunt, is really bad, very vulnerable, especially due to the fact that the login and settings pages use no encryption whatsoever.

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DragonHawk from An insignificant little blue planet Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#10: Dec 23rd 2013 at 5:28:09 AM

Thanks to Fast Eddie for doing this. (I feel special now. ;-) )

Regarding security concerns: The email address should only display if you're logged in to your own account. So the only person who could steal your address would be yourself. There's no spam threat.

And as far as transmitting email addresses over the network goes, every single email you send or receive does the same thing, so that particular horse left that particular barn a long time ago.

(Granted, SSL would be nice, but I'd worry a lot more about compromised accounts before I worried about revealing email addresses; see above about how email works.)

KarjamP The imaginative Christian Asperger from South Africa Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
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#11: Dec 23rd 2013 at 7:33:26 AM

edited 23rd Dec '13 7:33:47 AM by KarjamP

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