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by sdfx 4599 days ago
But then again, you can always reset the password if you made a typo.

  - Username and password should enable you to change the email
  - Email alone should enable you to reset the password
So there is no risk in removing both duplicate fields. But maybe by now it's expected to type in a password twice. Users might be so used to it that it feels wrong to only insert it once.
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But then again, you can always reset the password if you made a typo.

Exactly. We dropped the "confirm your password" box in our forms a while ago.

Related problems since that time: 0.

People often forget their passwords anyway, so a streamlined password reset facility seems more practically useful than hassling people to type the same thing twice.