Separate Account Name from Username
There are two reasons to make this change:
Username is public information within storium, meaning that half of the battle is already done with regards to cracking someone's account. Requiring login by email, or having account name not be public information (or at least make it optional) fixes this problem.
Coming through from Kickstarter, I chose a personally identifiable username believing it would be background information. Providing a public pseudonym field would help with this privacy concern for users who did not understand how their login credentials would be displayed to others.
Chris Warner
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Account names are important for establishing identity within the Storium community and are meant to be the public pseudonyms you describe. Definitely hear you about people who did not understand the implications of their choice of user names. To help with this, we will likely add the ability to change your user name in the future, and we are also considering proposals to allow people to choose multiple aliases. But for now we will be happy to change it for you if you file a support ticket!