In the past, I have used the following custom user model for Django because it uses (1) email addresses as usernames and (2) short name and long name fields instead of first and last names. I believe both of these are significant improvements over the default user model.

github.com/jambonrose/django-i

That said, can anyone recommend other, potentially-better custom user model options for ?

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