<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With avatars landing shortly in the browser, and display names soon to follow, I think it’s a good time to re-open the discussion around sharing identity information from the Firefox Account.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Google [1] and Facebook have taken a lot of flack over their real-name policy. I think that allowing users some flexibility in their identity helps them engage more effectively in certain contexts:</div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Users may not want to use their real name when posting publicly</li><li class="">Users may want to tailor their identity to a specific community (e.g. MDN vs. SuMo)</li></ul></div><div class="">I’ve developed my original mockup further.</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlkvr5xlqzzbvvy/Identity Control.pdf?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlkvr5xlqzzbvvy/Identity%20Control.pdf?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The idea is to present a first-run screen when logging into each property for the first time (or when registering through one).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The presented Marketplace example illustrate a few features:</div><div class=""><ol class=""><li class="">The user can, by default, provide their account identity to Marketplace, which will remain updated (i.e. linked)</li><li class="">The user can override this default and make a custom identity for Marketplace maintained in Marketplace settings</li><li class="">Marketplace can request additional pieces of identity information</li><li class="">If needed, this information can be fed back in to Firefox Accounts</li></ol></div><div class="">Do all of these features make sense?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Ryan Feeley</span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">UX, Cloud Services</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Mozilla UX</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">IRC: rfeeley</div></div>
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<br class=""><div class="">[1] 241,769 sign Youtube petition <a href="https://www.change.org/p/google-change-the-youtube-comment-section-back-to-its-original-form" class="">https://www.change.org/p/google-change-the-youtube-comment-section-back-to-its-original-form</a></div></body></html>