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Why do they need to log into your GitHub account to generate such page? It seems that the information gathered can be directly from your public profile or did I
by adulau 15y ago
Why do they need to log into your GitHub account to generate such page? It seems that the information gathered can be directly from your public profile or did I miss something?
- joshuacc 15y agoPerhaps to access private repositories?
- abecedarius 15y agoI'm confused too because github asks me to authorize them reading my public information. If it's public, what's there to authorize? (Since this github authorization thing was new to me, I didn't grant it. Paranoid, sure.)
- coderwall 15y agoFor convenience we didn't want users to be required to create yet another set of credentials. This allows you to still authenticate and control your coderwall settings/profile while using your GitHub acct. When we request public access, github only gives us public access.
- adulau 15y agoI'm pretty sure if you make a version without authentication more GitHub user will use it.
- abecedarius 15y agoYeah, that's about where I stand -- looks fun but I don't want to bother managing it beyond asking "what does user Foo look like?" where Foo == me.