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Next to no one cares about the free signup. Get a second email account for free and sign up and have fun. If you don’t like it, it’s your choice, but seems li

by Vaslo 7y ago

Next to no one cares about the free signup. Get a second email account for free and sign up and have fun. If you don’t like it, it’s your choice, but seems like it isn’t a big deal to me.

NikolaNovak 7y ago
Ten years ago,maybe. Today my techie friends are guarded (and the way everybody is correlating and analyzing everything, a single “throwaway” email is again a decade past it’s usefulness as a construct), whereas my non techie friends are merely impatient and will go to buzzfeed to get their non-signup fun (rather than any conscious concern). So it’s mostly an attention span thing in my mind . Always ask yourself what is that signup/gate costing vs what is it gaining you. If you are losing X percentage of users for no identifiable gain, the question should be why is it there, not why should it be removed / why is it a big deal to somebody .
jannotti 7y ago
You say "next to no one" but I certainly feel the same way, and his comment was the highest voted. So...
seankimdesign 7y ago
Forced account creation prompts are, in fact, a huge source of traffic bounce on most web apps despite most of them being free of charge. So your statement is plain false. Many people do find them to be a significant source of annoyance.
- ddingus 7y ago
  And it is self selecting. Filter for peeps who just don't care, and the ones who are really interested. The hard cases are out of the funnel. Maybe that has merit? Not that I'm advocating forced signups. Hate em. But, I can see the logic in play here.
  - dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
    The point is: if you do it too early, you eliminate also those who could care, if you didn't break the delicate bonding proces with a brutal sign-up form.
    - ddingus 7y ago
      Maybe. They could just as easily be hard cases too. It is not always seen as delicate.
codebje 7y ago
You don't even need an email account to sign up, but I certainly understand a reflexive rejection of unnecessary sign-ups.
justin66 7y ago
Signing up for and keeping track of alternate email addresses is fun?
taneq 7y ago
I care. Forced signup is an instant tab close for me.
dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
Unfortunately a new generation of the funnel is gaining popularity in the last years: "sign up with your work e-mail", where Gmail etc. are rejected. So you need to make some effort to find a free e-mail provider that is not on their banned domains list. Unless of course you actually don't mind spam and pseudospam ("Hi it's Mike from MyStartup. Just checking up as you haven't replied to my previous message...") in your work mailbox.

by Vaslo 7y ago

Next to no one cares about the free signup. Get a second email account for free and sign up and have fun. If you don’t like it, it’s your choice, but seems like it isn’t a big deal to me.

NikolaNovak 7y ago

Ten years ago,maybe. Today my techie friends are guarded (and the way everybody is correlating and analyzing everything, a single “throwaway” email is again a decade past it’s usefulness as a construct), whereas my non techie friends are merely impatient and will go to buzzfeed to get their non-signup fun (rather than any conscious concern). So it’s mostly an attention span thing in my mind . Always ask yourself what is that signup/gate costing vs what is it gaining you. If you are losing X percentage of users for no identifiable gain, the question should be why is it there, not why should it be removed / why is it a big deal to somebody .

jannotti 7y ago

You say "next to no one" but I certainly feel the same way, and his comment was the highest voted. So...

seankimdesign 7y ago

Forced account creation prompts are, in fact, a huge source of traffic bounce on most web apps despite most of them being free of charge. So your statement is plain false. Many people do find them to be a significant source of annoyance.

ddingus 7y ago
And it is self selecting. Filter for peeps who just don't care, and the ones who are really interested. The hard cases are out of the funnel. Maybe that has merit? Not that I'm advocating forced signups. Hate em. But, I can see the logic in play here.
- dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago
  The point is: if you do it too early, you eliminate also those who could care, if you didn't break the delicate bonding proces with a brutal sign-up form.
  - ddingus 7y ago
    Maybe. They could just as easily be hard cases too. It is not always seen as delicate.

codebje 7y ago

You don't even need an email account to sign up, but I certainly understand a reflexive rejection of unnecessary sign-ups.

justin66 7y ago

Signing up for and keeping track of alternate email addresses is fun?

taneq 7y ago

I care. Forced signup is an instant tab close for me.

dvfjsdhgfv 7y ago

Unfortunately a new generation of the funnel is gaining popularity in the last years: "sign up with your work e-mail", where Gmail etc. are rejected. So you need to make some effort to find a free e-mail provider that is not on their banned domains list. Unless of course you actually don't mind spam and pseudospam ("Hi it's Mike from MyStartup. Just checking up as you haven't replied to my previous message...") in your work mailbox.