Out of curiosity, why didn't you offer both way's to login. Shouldn't be that hard to check if there is an "@" sign in the username, if it is probe against the email address, otherwise directly probe against login_id. If probe against email fails, probe again against login_id. Or do a "where email=:my_login_field or login_id=:my_login_field".
Anyway, we need to do this for one of our sites, and I though adding login_id (nickname, screenname, whatever you want to call it) to parties as well. Would this be cool with the core team ?
