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In the 90s I was at a little internet startup, and the product guys _insisted_ that a verification loop for registered emails would be catastrophic and lead to
by makr17 4y ago
In the 90s I was at a little internet startup, and the product guys _insisted_ that a verification loop for registered emails would be catastrophic and lead to a massive dive in registrations. Engineering pushed back, it went all the way to the CEO, and he sided with product. So we built the damn thing, and it went live, and the CEO got signed up for _everything_ we could think of. Wasn't more than a few days of this before verification suddenly became a good common-sense idea.
- quickthrower2 4y agoFunny. From a "business" point of view the original decision may have been better (but evil). However the CEO made a decision for the business for his personal convenience. I have seen this done before where we were forced to use technology that would support both Mac and Windows because the CTO had a Mac (and that was the only reason). So Silverlight it was :-/. Yes you can guess the year probably!
- dicknuckle 4y agoI can't help but think of Skip the Dishes and how they have zero verification of account emails. I don't use the service and never received any spam, but I did start receiving order confirmations from someone on the other side of the country. Eventually I reset the password and accessed the account to find their phone number and sorted the whole thing out over SMS.