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I went to your site and signed in with Twitter. Now it is asking me for my email address and to choose a password. If I wanted that, I would have chosen the "si
by enduser 15y ago
I went to your site and signed in with Twitter. Now it is asking me for my email address and to choose a password. If I wanted that, I would have chosen the "sign up with e-mail" option. Could you fulfill the promise of single sign-on?
- staunch 15y agoThe problem is Twitter doesn't provide first name, last name, and email like Facebook does. I'm going to try splitting on space for name and people change it if it's wrong. Won't work for many names, but should make it a little better.
- SwellJoe 15y agoFor what it's worth, I couldn't see anything to click other than "Sign up" or "Sign in", so I closed the tab. I don't sign up to sites before I play with them. So, if I can't tinker with something before giving up anonymity, I can't imagine I'll ever use Get.com.
- staunch 15y agoI hear you, and I'm soo conflicted about it. On the one hand it's made it so a lot more people try out the site and have a good experience. On the other hand it drives a lot of people away instantly. We did make it so you can sign up with email (not just Twitter/Facebook) and we made the form as simple as possible. We're still not sure what's best overall. I'm positive we'll take down the sign up wall at some point though.
- anigbrowl 15y agoIf it's like a store, you've got to let people browse the merchandise before you can make a sale. My PII has value to me, and also to you - so tempt me a bit first, then ask for it.
- staunch 15y agoI fundamentally agree with you that that is the right approach. We'll get there. Thanks for the feedback.
- smokinn 15y agoYou can sort of get past that. I didn't want to sign up either until I could see what it was I was signing up for. If you click the "Learn more" link you get brought to the about page but it has the proper header that lets you navigate the site.
- ktsmith 15y agoThe reason I picked twitter is because I didn't want to provide that information.
- staunch 15y agoTotally understandable. We're doing the recently-controversial thing and encouraging real names (or at least first name last initial) to encourage trust. Since people's biggest concern with getting product recommendations is that they're biased it's a big plus on our site. I know it's super unpopoular position for some, but Yelp has been doing it for a very long time with great success.
- ktsmith 15y agoIt might make more sense to simply remove twitter as an option for authentication. It doesn't provide the information you are looking for and it's confusing to someone that's signing up to be prompted for name, email and a password after authorizing the app.
- staunch 15y agoWell I just added the feature where it tries to fill in first/last name so you only have to do email/password, but yeah, it is definitely not saving a ton of time right now. We're going to do some more Twitter integration stuff though, so it might still be worthwhile.