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Comments on Move current password field up in the edit account settings

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Move current password field up in the edit account settings

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Currently, the change password form looks like this:

Edit account - change password form

Having a form like this might create some problems:

  • Password - is it the new one or the old one? we find out only by checking the other fields.
  • it is different from virtually all sites I know which place the current password as the first field and then require the new password and its confirmation
  • password managers might fill the first password field (or all) and special attention is required to remove the new password and its confirmation from the first two fields

My suggestion is to have the form in this order:

  • Current password
  • New password
  • New password confirmation
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Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 1 year ago

That's a good point. I've submitted a PR to change this. For the last label, I went with "confirm new password" to lead with the imperative verb; I'm told this is a little easier for people to understand if English isn't their first language and might be a little easier for translation.