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Minor improvements in the UX of forgot password

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript

Research direction

Start by tracing the existing /password/forgot and /password/reset flows in the JavaScript application. Review how missing or expired codes, unregistered emails, username-or-email lookup, and successful resets are currently handled. Done should be defined by selecting and implementing a specific subset of these UX ideas, with tests covering each chosen flow.

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Description

Problem

Here are some brief ideas on how to improve the UX of the forgot password feature, from a conversation with @snewcomer:

Ideas

  • tell the user when that email isn’t registered
  • allow it to be reset by username or email (similar to existing issue to allow login by either)
  • /password/reset could redirect to /password/forgot if there were no code supplied, with an error message
  • /password/reset could redirect to /password/forgot if the code were expired, with an error message
  • /password/reset could show the success message on that page itself, and then have a button to “continue to sign in” (which then does the auto-authentication)
Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
120
Forks
75
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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