You know, I don’t use Escargot anymore, I use Crosstalk now, and I tried something like “username@crosstalk.im“and it gave an error, and of course I don’t want to use a real email address. What should I do? (ı use google translation)
You will be required to use a real e-mail address that can receive mail in the near future. This is for security reasons. All existing accounts will be required to retroactively verify their e-mail address, or face restrictions, and later on, deletion. To avoid this, I suggest changing your e-mail to one as soon as possible.
If you think this is outrageous, consider that Escargot and Phoenix do the same, as does every mainstream internet service, including the very forum you are using right now, not to mention the original service of the IM client you are using.
We will have the option to mask your e-mail address from public view releasing at the same time as when e-mail verification becomes enforced.
Using @crosstalk.im e-mail domains is not allowed as it will conflict with said e-mail masking system.
What’s the point of hiding your email, if you have to show it to keep your account? You have to change your email before that system comes out, so it will be shown to everyone, where they can then note it down. Every mainstream service does ask for your email, but they don’t show it publicly, for good reasons.
No, you don’t. When the system rolls out. You get a one-time change to your new e-mail that only requires verification of the new e-mail. Afterwards, you’ll need to verify both e-mails, though in cases where you can’t verify the old e-mail for whatever reason (lost it etc) you’ll need to contact the admins. This has been stated multiple times now.
It would just be better to change it ahead of time as you wouldn’t need to go through this process.
Except one of the ones CrossTalk is reviving (Windows Live Messenger). And YouTube, GitHub, Slack… and probably more that i don’t remember off the top of my head. The difference with the latter from the former is that they implement ways to either hide or mask your e-mail address which CrossTalk plans to implement as well.