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Careful. The "Fly Now" button makes it sound like you're going to put your email in and get to fly. In reality, you're signing up for their mailing list for w

by zodPod 10y ago

Careful. The "Fly Now" button makes it sound like you're going to put your email in and get to fly. In reality, you're signing up for their mailing list for when they get to Beta....

Groxx 10y ago
Behavior like that is why I always give out https://www.mailinator.com/ https://www.mailinator.com/ addresses instead. Or one of the infinite number of alternatives that aren't blocked on site X.
callumprentice 10y ago
That's true but for me, I signed up perhaps a month ago and was given access to fly just a few days later IIRC. It works really well and is a huge amount of fun.
tfinster 10y ago
[co-founder of Cape here] We're already in beta! But since our system involves physical drones located in the real world, we have limited supply of available flights. We currently load balance the demand from our users by having a waitlist from which we whitelist folks on a weekly basis, and a queueing system when all of the drones in our fleet are simultaneously in the air.
- rjuyal 10y ago
  It will be awesome if you mention this just before asking new users to login with google/facebook.
- dawnerd 10y ago
  Stopped me from signing up. It's a bit deceptive to say "Fly Now" only to, well, not be able to. I also refuse to log in with Facebook or Google. Looks cool though...
- l0b0 10y ago
  Fake "actions" on web sites, used to gauge interest, are disrespectful, and quite simply a jerk move. Just like those "sign up for our spam" pop-overs. There are enough things broken on the web without intentionally adding to them. Please don't be a jerk.
  - jameskegel 10y ago
    I agree, this is a dark pattern.
  - deleted 10y ago
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rjuyal 10y ago
I wish I have read this comment earlier. Clicked 'Fly Now'. Logged in using my google account and got presented with two huge textboxes. I felt cheated there :D then closed after few seconds.

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Careful. The "Fly Now" button makes it sound like you're going to put your email in and get to fly. In reality, you're signing up for their mailing list for w

by zodPod 10y ago

Careful. The "Fly Now" button makes it sound like you're going to put your email in and get to fly. In reality, you're signing up for their mailing list for when they get to Beta....

Groxx 10y ago
Behavior like that is why I always give out https://www.mailinator.com/ https://www.mailinator.com/ addresses instead. Or one of the infinite number of alternatives that aren't blocked on site X.
callumprentice 10y ago
That's true but for me, I signed up perhaps a month ago and was given access to fly just a few days later IIRC. It works really well and is a huge amount of fun.
tfinster 10y ago
[co-founder of Cape here] We're already in beta! But since our system involves physical drones located in the real world, we have limited supply of available flights. We currently load balance the demand from our users by having a waitlist from which we whitelist folks on a weekly basis, and a queueing system when all of the drones in our fleet are simultaneously in the air.
- rjuyal 10y ago
  It will be awesome if you mention this just before asking new users to login with google/facebook.
- dawnerd 10y ago
  Stopped me from signing up. It's a bit deceptive to say "Fly Now" only to, well, not be able to. I also refuse to log in with Facebook or Google. Looks cool though...
- l0b0 10y ago
  Fake "actions" on web sites, used to gauge interest, are disrespectful, and quite simply a jerk move. Just like those "sign up for our spam" pop-overs. There are enough things broken on the web without intentionally adding to them. Please don't be a jerk.
  - jameskegel 10y ago
    I agree, this is a dark pattern.
  - deleted 10y ago
    [deleted]
rjuyal 10y ago
I wish I have read this comment earlier. Clicked 'Fly Now'. Logged in using my google account and got presented with two huge textboxes. I felt cheated there :D then closed after few seconds.