Edit User page - field errors when changing pseudonym

[johnnyfoe]

I'm having trouble with changing my psuedonym:

[AJDempsey]

Nope, you just haven't entered your password to confirm it.

[johnnyfoe]

I have to enter my password twice to change my pseudonym?

Overkill.

[AJDempsey]

I'm pretty sure it so you can change the password as well, it's part of the tutorial code I'm thinking about an improvement to it when I add in the ability to delete.

[johnnyfoe]

I think it'd be better if we had a separate page to change your password

[AJDempsey]

Sounds like over kill to have a completely separate page, repeating stuff as well. It needs to change but a separate page isn't needed.

Something like this with hitting the change link/button inserting a new area where you can make modifications and then enter your old password once to save the changes.

[johnnyfoe]

Aye, it depends on your preference. I definitely prefer that mock-up, but I don't think that every change a user makes to their account will require p/w confirmation (e.g. we'll have connections to github/sf/fb/twitter (etc.) at some point and it'd be a bit far if when they updated that that they had to enter their CJ PW right after entering their account details).

I think a good way of doing it (eventually, perhaps not for our initial versions!) would be to have an AJAX box that pops up if the change is significant enough to require password authentication. It's cleaner and isn't intrusive until it needs to be.

Twitter approach:

FB approach: