Propose new functionalities for Decidim software

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Source: {"body":{"en":"<p><strong>Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.</strong><br>Our clients report that many of their users do not understand the difference between name and nickname when they sign up :</p><ul><li>some don’t know what to input (it can be creative out of the blue ;))</li><li>some feel like they are asked to input the same info twice and find it annoying</li><li>some will create errors by inputing special characters* or going over the limit (25)</li><li>Constraint not mentioned in a help text that the user discovers with an error message after sending the form</li></ul><p>This creates unnecessary frictions at a crucial step.</p><p><strong>Describe the solution you'd like</strong><br>In order to make it easier to sign up on Decidim, we propose</p><ul><li>to automatically fill the user nickname field using the name input</li><li>hide the nickname field on the signup form to avoid any confusion*</li></ul><p>*(what is this second field ? why is it autofilled ?) + they can always change it later in their account settings</p><p>We propose to generate the nickname in the following way :</p><ul><li>delete spaces</li><li>no uppercase</li><li>delete special characters</li><li>25 characters</li><li>when duplacate add a number that can be incremented</li><li>keep 2 characters for numbers at the end</li></ul><p>Example :</p><p>Name : Constantin Guillaume de La villardière → Nickname : constantinguillaumedela</p><p>If a other users register with the same name we’ll have :</p><p>constantinguillaumedela1</p><p>constantinguillaumedela2</p><p>.</p><p>.</p><p>constantinguillaumedela99</p><p><strong>Describe alternatives you've considered</strong><br>-<br></p><p><strong>Additional context</strong><br>This was tried by Platoniq on one of their instance, they told us it really helped with registration.</p><p>This proposal is part of a larger scope to improve authentication flow in Decidim. <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jxHh52-gzMUFRZOiwgKHDHycMC-eH1R8ScFVJs2Dfrc/edit?usp=sharing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external-link-container\">Working document here&nbsp;(External link)</a>.</p><p><strong>Does this issue could impact on users private data?</strong><br>No<br></p><p><strong>Funded by</strong><br>OSP and Angers</p>"},"title":{"en":"Add nickname autofilling to the sign up form"}}

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