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Are you in the US by chance? To my knowledge this is not the case anymore in the US if you land on Pinterest via Google Search unless you try to take an action

by jquery 9y ago

Are you in the US by chance? To my knowledge this is not the case anymore in the US if you land on Pinterest via Google Search unless you try to take an action that only makes sense for an auth’d user (such as saving a Pin). I would like us to expand this to more countries but it is not my call. If you aren’t in the US, could you provide an example of us throwing up a login screen if you click on an image? I don’t think we do that until scroll down to see more Pinterest content.

xg15 9y ago
Not the US. If I open any link to a pin or try to browse a list, I get this: https://i.imgur.com/MQUoa2N.png https://i.imgur.com/MQUoa2N.png Note the lack of an [X] button. This popup is both modal and non-dismissable, so you can't even click on links to other unauth areas. For non-technical users, the literal only options are signing up or closing the tab. It's not really a secret either. They wrote detailed posts on their tech blog about both the invention of the non-dismissable modal popup [1] and the descision to make the image the user was looking for less obvious compared to recommended content [2]. [1] https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-and-increasing-signups-d6e7d8fef479 https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-... [2] https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-engineering-how-we-doubled-sign-ups-from-pin-landing-pages-1c0bc400cdb9 https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-...
- jquery 9y ago
  Thank you for the reply. Those blog articles are indeed upsetting. The good news is they do not reflect our current attitude towards signup walls. I expect major changes soon, we've heavily staffed up the internal teams that deal with this so I expect a more elegant unauth experience in the future.
  - xg15 9y ago
    Thank you for having this conversation. Pinterest is a great place on the web to find images - however, so far I avoided it whenever I could because of the glimpses of the underlying philosophy you get. If that mindset is now truly changing, that would be great. In that case, the best of luck to you!

by jquery 9y ago

xg15 9y ago

Not the US. If I open any link to a pin or try to browse a list, I get this: https://i.imgur.com/MQUoa2N.png https://i.imgur.com/MQUoa2N.png Note the lack of an [X] button. This popup is both modal and non-dismissable, so you can't even click on links to other unauth areas. For non-technical users, the literal only options are signing up or closing the tab. It's not really a secret either. They wrote detailed posts on their tech blog about both the invention of the non-dismissable modal popup [1] and the descision to make the image the user was looking for less obvious compared to recommended content [2]. [1] https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-and-increasing-signups-d6e7d8fef479 https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-... [2] https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-engineering-how-we-doubled-sign-ups-from-pin-landing-pages-1c0bc400cdb9 https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/lessons-in-growth-...

jquery 9y ago
Thank you for the reply. Those blog articles are indeed upsetting. The good news is they do not reflect our current attitude towards signup walls. I expect major changes soon, we've heavily staffed up the internal teams that deal with this so I expect a more elegant unauth experience in the future.
- xg15 9y ago
  Thank you for having this conversation. Pinterest is a great place on the web to find images - however, so far I avoided it whenever I could because of the glimpses of the underlying philosophy you get. If that mindset is now truly changing, that would be great. In that case, the best of luck to you!