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oytis ◴[] No.46199335[source]
Your email is your identity. If they allow you to change your email, what they should refer you by, your passport number? Was kind of easier in the times of usernames, but these are long gone
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wizzwizz4 ◴[] No.46199352[source]
They should use the integer primary key of the users table, of course.
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1. piskov ◴[] No.46199422[source]
Nah, that’s too 1985.

Because client doesn’t know it, inserts can be slow in cross-db environment.

Guid is always better (can be client generated), and modern guid versions can be ordered chronologically