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There are essentially no applications that require email. We should just stop doing email verification altogether. If you need to have a separate communication channel with your user just establish that separately after signup.


Password resets. People forget their passwords all the time, and you don't want to deal with support emails and explain that they should have set an email in their security settings, so now they can't get back their their Twitter/Discord/Facebook account and there's nothing you can do (or will do).




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