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I don't have Facebook. Does Airtime provide alternative ways to sign up, and if not, why not?

by Toshio 14y ago

oinksoft 14y ago
Yea, I just took that as a statement that this software is not for people like me.
samratjp 14y ago
I wouldn't hold my breath. Did you really expect the former President of fb (and Co-founder of Causes - also, fb login) to have a non-fb signup flow :-p ?
huhtenberg 14y ago
I was going to make the same smart-ass remark, but then realized that since I am not on Facebook, I am most certainly not interested in Airtime either. So that's actually a reasonable call on Airtime's part.
kapilkale 14y ago
Facebook Connect likely solves the dick problem.
- r4vik 14y ago
  I'm pretty sure Chatroulette solved the dick problem to, using image recognition. If you get your dick out you get sent to permanent dick purgatory with all the other dick wranglers. It seems to work. Dick hit rate has gone down from 1 in 3 to 1 in about 50.
  - hy3lxs 14y ago
    That number would be still too high for us. We want virtually zero.
hy3lxs 14y ago
We will someday, just not today. For the initial user population, it's a better user experience to prepopulate your profile, video library, and friends list with data from fb.
lucaspiller 14y ago
I usually bash these posts, because being a developer who has previously built a number of apps using solely Facebook login I can understand why they don't provide another means of signup. For the apps I have built people who don't have a Facebook account aren't the intended target audience, and I believe it could be easily argued Airtime fits this category. The amount Facebook gives for free (friends, chat, payments, a verified email address, demographics) is really hard to replicate via other means. In this case though I think they ask for too much before giving anything or even saying what it is about, firstly access to my Facebook account, then requires enhanced permissions (which are meant to be optional, however the app barfs if you don't allow them), then requires you to allow Flash to access my webcam. It's more of a UX thing, but at least tell me what I am signing up to and show me what I can get out of it by allowing access to all of this.
- hy3lxs 14y ago
  Read your posts: allow us to prepopulate your video library with YouTube videos that you've shared on your wall in the past. XMPP permissions: we are deeply integrated with facebook chat. Your friends online on Facebook can send and receive xmpp messages to you on Airtime. Agreed that we could improve the messaging. Thanks for the feedback.

I don't have Facebook. Does Airtime provide alternative ways to sign up, and if not, why not?

by Toshio 14y ago

I don't have Facebook. Does Airtime provide alternative ways to sign up, and if not, why not?

oinksoft 14y ago

Yea, I just took that as a statement that this software is not for people like me.

samratjp 14y ago

I wouldn't hold my breath. Did you really expect the former President of fb (and Co-founder of Causes - also, fb login) to have a non-fb signup flow :-p ?

huhtenberg 14y ago

I was going to make the same smart-ass remark, but then realized that since I am not on Facebook, I am most certainly not interested in Airtime either. So that's actually a reasonable call on Airtime's part.

kapilkale 14y ago

Facebook Connect likely solves the dick problem.

r4vik 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Chatroulette solved the dick problem to, using image recognition. If you get your dick out you get sent to permanent dick purgatory with all the other dick wranglers. It seems to work. Dick hit rate has gone down from 1 in 3 to 1 in about 50.
- hy3lxs 14y ago
  That number would be still too high for us. We want virtually zero.

hy3lxs 14y ago

We will someday, just not today. For the initial user population, it's a better user experience to prepopulate your profile, video library, and friends list with data from fb.

lucaspiller 14y ago

I usually bash these posts, because being a developer who has previously built a number of apps using solely Facebook login I can understand why they don't provide another means of signup. For the apps I have built people who don't have a Facebook account aren't the intended target audience, and I believe it could be easily argued Airtime fits this category. The amount Facebook gives for free (friends, chat, payments, a verified email address, demographics) is really hard to replicate via other means. In this case though I think they ask for too much before giving anything or even saying what it is about, firstly access to my Facebook account, then requires enhanced permissions (which are meant to be optional, however the app barfs if you don't allow them), then requires you to allow Flash to access my webcam. It's more of a UX thing, but at least tell me what I am signing up to and show me what I can get out of it by allowing access to all of this.

hy3lxs 14y ago
Read your posts: allow us to prepopulate your video library with YouTube videos that you've shared on your wall in the past. XMPP permissions: we are deeply integrated with facebook chat. Your friends online on Facebook can send and receive xmpp messages to you on Airtime. Agreed that we could improve the messaging. Thanks for the feedback.