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I see signup with email+password, or google, or github. Did I miss something? It seems perfectly legit, there are alternatives, and github seems much more appro
by ecesena 9y ago
I see signup with email+password, or google, or github. Did I miss something? It seems perfectly legit, there are alternatives, and github seems much more appropriate than facebook here.
Personally, I very much prefer people to ask me for a social, rather than storing my password.
- keithnz 9y agoI don't mind using github for identity, but it wants access to private repositories.
- ecesena 9y agoOh got it, sorry. Yeah, I can see reasons, but they should definitely split the authorization in 2 parts if you want to also allow access to private repos.
- keithnz 9y agoyeah.... but it got me thinking, if you wanted to target HN people, who could quite likely have hugely intresting things in their private repositories.... create a home page like the one shown, label it with tech crunch / etc, make it look enticing, then have a login page like that ask for access to private repos, then get a bunch of HN accounts, give postive comments, and see what you can harvest :)
- dkersten 9y agoSince I use a randomly generated password stored in a password manager, I'd much rather they store my single-site-use random password.