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When a guest tries to use a username for posting, that is already used by a member the error() function is used to display the error.

This forces the guest to use the back button of the browser to get the submitted input back (worst case: it's lost).

Therefore I'd suggest to use an inline error instead, that is displayed above the input form, like it's done for captcha errors etc.


If I was about to decide I'd tread this as a bug for it's a really ugly and user unfriendly sollution and would change this in master branch too, but that's just my opionion.

Moved to bugs

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@King Louis: Shouldn't this have been moved to 1.6 bugs? I doubt this was introduced in 1.8.

@StefanT - yep it's like that in 1.6 too ;-) Like I said, if i was about to decide I'd fix it in master and feature branch