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Which providers would you prefer? We tried Twitter last night but it wasn't working for some reason (kept redirecting immediately with no oauth page).
by zaptrem 3y ago
Which providers would you prefer? We tried Twitter last night but it wasn't working for some reason (kept redirecting immediately with no oauth page).
- 4chandaily 3y agoBasic username and password auth has worked for millions for decades. If you absolutely must collect user data for some reason, an email address can be used as the username. This isn't a hard problem to solve.
- zaptrem 3y agoFor us it had nothing to do with collecting user data, adding what you mentioned would have just required another few hours of dev time haha. You’re right that it’s not hard to solve, we just wanted to focus on the rest of the app since there’s only two of us. We can definitely add this though!
- 4chandaily 3y agoWell, what I could see from this side of the wall looked professional and well put together. Impressive for a team of two. Congrats on the launch, regardless. I will be sure to check it out when it becomes more accessible.
- postalrat 3y agoThe problem is 1 person creating 10,000 accounts. Solve that and you will be rich.
- 4chandaily 3y agoWhy solve it at all? 10,000 fake accounts for every human is working out great for Elon. =) Seriously, though - the solution isn't to prevent people from doing this, it is to remove the incentives that encourage it.
- postalrat 3y agoHow do you remove the incentive? Don't allow free accounts?
- 4chandaily 3y agoDon't use accounts at all for non-paid features.
- ale42 3y agoHacker news ;-) But I guess there's no OAuth or other similar function on HN... More seriously, personally none of them, I don't have accounts on any "usually used" login providers. Just allow local accounts.