Lazy registration, 2nd chance
Hi..
Voidberg and I are giving a second chance to the lazyreg module. Currently there's no such functionality in drupal, and it would be great. For now we have in plan allow the creation of a 'temporary account' to test the site features, and give the user chance to keep it, filling the missing account information, or forget it, just login out the site.
Is there something we are missing or we should consider? do you know of something being implemented about this?
Thanks in advance.
ilo
An interesting concept, but
An interesting concept, but I'm not sure how it would work. Could you give a usage example you have in mind?
Actually, you will find
Actually, you will find several use cases just googling. Yesterday we discussed one of the three we are evaluating to be included in the lazyreg module.
The first one: "The test account" approach is current "lazy registration" main feature: the hability to create an account automatically just following a link or a click on certain situations, to be able to continue using the site and see more features (including performing some actions in the site). This 'account' is just a 'test account', user is logged in with this account and he can now create posts, comments, or view/do any other action available to his 'test role'. contant may or not be published, but to keep content user is encouraged to finish the registration process. Still needs some work to able to don't leave site unstable, and some documentation about what/when and how to enable and configure it.
The second one: "The authoring" problem, my favourite, is about 'authoring' the content. 'content' could be 'authored' on submission time, introducing an email or some 'personalized' token. The email was choossen because this allow the site to keep track of the current 'user'. Using this token the content authorship is kept withouth log in or log out the 'current site user'. The way content is authored is similar to comment submission in "blogger", with some options to be selected depending on the context. I'm working on this right now, so we could test and analyze having something to touch soon. This is handled as a submodule of the lazyreg module only available for D6 for now, and not in cvs yet.
The third one, creating a gosth account for every NEW visitor, setting a never expiring cookie, could improve "anonymous" user tracking, for a more conducted adversiting or navigation guidance, but this has to be seriously studied, because of performance and security implications.
Second case
I like the second use case. I allow anonymous posting on my site and some users then choose to become members. It would be nice to have a way to easiliy associate their content with them when they sign up.
Michelle
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