A few weeks ago I released django-registration 2.4.1. The 2.4 series is the last in the django-registration 2.x line, and from here on out it’ll only get bugfixes. The master branch is now prepping for 3.0, which will remove a lot of the deprecated cruft that’s accumulated over the past decade of maintaining it, and try to focus on best practices for modern Django applications.
I’ll write more about that sometime soon, but right now I want to spend a little bit of time talking about a deceptively hard problem django-registration has to deal with: usernames. And while I could write this as one of those “falsehoods programmers believe about X” articles, my personal preference is to actually explain why this is trickier than people think, and offer some advice on how to deal with it, rather than just provide mockery with no useful context.
