Account Merging

I am happy to report I’ve gotten most of the development growing pains out of the way for what happens when a person changes names or cities. I make them get a new Commit3x.com account to use the new identity, but there is more.

I let the people ‘combine’ their accounts, keeping them separate from the person’s private point of view but adding all the votes up for them publically. So, if they live in the same city, their old and new name appear each with the total number of votes they have (combined from both accounts). This means they look cooler than normal, and people can use the old or new identity to find them.

Equally it is good that if you vote for someone in LeSueur, your vote ‘stays’ in LeSueur even if they move to… Detroit.

The next little challenge is, of course, actually doing that tallying correctly. I think it might be a MySQL cursor and a loop, no good. Along these lines I worry over two people same name living in the same city, for now an administrative task to fix.

I think the site will be opening towards the end of the week, and I am excited to let people in!