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In the end, it's all about time. People are rational creatures (despite rumours) and quickly decide whether they are willing to spend time to do the email activ
by cblconfederate 6y ago
In the end, it's all about time. People are rational creatures (despite rumours) and quickly decide whether they are willing to spend time to do the email activation thingie, and so they bail. Someone should do a survey of conversion rates vs time it takes to sign up somewhere, i bet there will be a strong correlation.
Anecdotally, i ve observed the opposite too. I don't require email to sign up, but there is an email field further down in the form, and yet 95% people DO enter an email that looks valid, and not just garbage. That said, only 5% clicked on the email verification link , presumably because they don't have to
- PostThisTooFast 6y agoIt's also about tolerance for stupidity. The use of E-mail addresses as user IDs is not just inconvenient and annoying, but it's a piss-poor practice from a security standpoint. You can assume that a large portion of the public does not understand that they don't have to use their E-mail password on sites that force them to use their E-mail address to sign up. This puts the security of their entire E-mail account in the hands of dozens or hundreds of random Web sites' administrators and employees, which means it puts the security of their identities in those hands. Not to mention that everyone's E-mail address is on thousands of spammers' lists. When you test the top 100 passwords against millions of E-mail addresses, you're going to get a shitload of compromised accounts. Nobody should be forcing people to use an E-mail address as a user ID.