Login form should accept email address as user identifier

[toby-anderson]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It took me a few days to realise that I wasn't supposed to enter my email address into the login form, and that the username is a separate concept. I know what my email address is, but I struggled to remember what username I had provided for this app. This is a significant barrier to login.

Describe the solution you'd like

Have the login form accept email address as the user identifier

Acceptance Tests

entering the email address into the username field and the correct password into the password field successfully authenticates the user.

Other comment
For each user you already have a "name" field to represent the user by name, and a unique "email address" field to uniquely identify each user in a way that users understand. Why would you also need another field "username" distinct from both of these?

[imnasnainaec]

@toby-anderson Thanks for the request! We'll discuss it today at our weekly planning meeting.