[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15467: Multisite with separate users table

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#15467: Multisite with separate users table
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 Reporter:  fale             |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Multisite        |     Version:  3.0.1
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close            |     Focuses:
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Changes (by metric99):

 * status:  closed => reopened
 * resolution:  wontfix =>


Comment:

 Hello,

 I'm surprised this has been left as closed/wontfix for such a long time,
 considering the rise of SaaS and specifically for this topic, WaaS
 business models.

 Referring to @scribu  comment ¨Also, you didn't actually mention any
 tangible benefit that having separate user tables would bring.¨ Thinking
 of an agency, or anyone producing a WaaS, users should be able to create
 their websites without needing to share wp_user & wp_user_meta, hence the
 suggestion of @lightningspirit by using CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and
 CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE would be perfect, more than hiding my-sites or
 similar.

 I'm not familiar with how wordpress.com handles this, but I'm quite
 certain they don't share wp_user & wp_user_meta across so many
 blogs/subsites, as it's quite probable users will unknowingly try to
 register to more than 1 wordpress.com site (different domains, differnt
 categories) and don't get the ¨User already exists¨ message on a website
 they visit for first time. How and why should they know it's all a huge
 network of websites? Not even mentioning the privacy concerns for a shared
 user table.

 Hopefully, this will be addressed, I guess I'm not the first one who has
 been looking for days now on how to properly fix this issue.

 Cheers

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