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> 'jfaucett probably is fine sacrificing losing this small minority. precisely. In my experience, this small minority can actually be subdivided broadly into t
by jfaucett 9y ago
> 'jfaucett probably is fine sacrificing losing this small minority.
precisely. In my experience, this small minority can actually be subdivided broadly into two groups: those with very high data privacy concerns and scammers/spammers. It turns out that in my experience, the high level data privacy concern people have been the vastly smaller of the two groups, so at the end of the day you are sacrificing a tiny fraction of a fraction of potential users while simultaneously removing tons of scammers from your platform. Admittedly, the ratios probably vary depending on the particulars of your pricing models and potential scam vectors that can be applied to your software, also other factors such as local attitudes toward data privacy (my experience has been in the EU). You can also increase sign-ups by a large portion of the data privacy people by simply doing a lot of things to make your services legit i.e. have domain names registered to the real business or contact person, force https, have a high level overview of your terms and services that clearly and succinctly states how you use users data, have a verified https certificate, etc. But in general "social login only" has been so much better for me than mixed or only email logins I really would not want to go back to the alternatives.
- devgutt 9y agoAlthough I don't disagree, I suspect you are driving away a very interesting group of technically literate, even being small.
- biohax2015 9y agoI can guarantee you no VC or CEO cares about that in 99.99% of cases.
- paulcole 9y agoThis could easily be seen as a feature and not a bug.
- Spooky23 9y agoOne nuance is whether you offer one or multiple channels. I prefer email registration, but will consider Google or Microsoft logins. I will not under any circumstances use Facebook or Twitter login.
- kiallmacinnes 9y agoI find myself doing the same thing. There is absolutely zero hope of me clicking "login with Facebook", and between my low likelihood of clicking, and the low likelihood of actually seeing "login with Twitter" - that also never happens. However, I login with Google all the time. I have my reasons for these choices and I'm sure many people here share those reasons, and I'm also sure many more don't share those reasons, but the reasons are not important in this discussion. If you're going to offer social login, then offer at the very least all the major social logins - some really are more acceptable than others, the problem is, everyone's set is different.
- matt_the_bass 9y ago> If you're going to offer social login, then offer at the very least all the major social logins Note that ‘major’ can be different for different countries, regions, markets, product types. So be sure to know your target audience.
- sdwisely 9y agoI'm the same, if email registration isn't available I'll first greatly reconsider how much I'm interested in what you're offering. If I'm VERY interested I'll consider google or github or something, no matter how interested I am I'll never use facebook or twitter etc.
- nsgi 9y agoI can understand being against Facebook login but why not Twitter? Don't think it's a particularly shady company as far as I'm aware, and you don't have to give the app access to tweet on your behalf.