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is there a way to sign up for an account, or is that planned? I don't like signing into things with google/whatever

by esbwhat 14y ago

reginaldo 14y ago
Currently there's no other way to sign up. I believe he'll add other ways to sign up soon.
- tonylampada 14y ago
  > So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there... Turns out I can't do that with a newly created account. Bummer.
tonylampada 14y ago
We will add more ways to signup: facebook, twitter, yahoo and github, at least. I'm not a big fan of owning users' passwords, so unless people really really ask for it, we probably won't add a "create login/pass" functionality. Also, there is the concept of reputation - Sponsors that pay their offers as promised will have good reputation. For reputation to mean something, we need to know something about the user, and I believe linking with a social account is our best option for that. Anyway, talking about FreedomSponsors on GitTip's thread is probably not good for MY reputation here on HackerNews (right? I don't really know, I just signed up). So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there... Thanks for your insterest!
- 18pfsmt 14y ago
  What about using Mozilla's Persona (formally BrowserID), instead of those commercial services you mentioned?
  - tonylampada 14y ago
    I didn't know about that untill now. I'll look more into it. But the main idea behind the way accounts work on FS is that the user should have some sort of online presence before he can sign up. So if Mozilla's Persona doesn't offer a way for the user to publish some sort of online profile, then we probably won't add it as a primary form of signing up on FS. Linking an existing account to authenticate later is ok. But we do want to make it more difficult to create completely "anonymous" profiles. At least that's our thinking today anyway.

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is there a way to sign up for an account, or is that planned? I don't like signing into things with google/whatever

by esbwhat 14y ago

is there a way to sign up for an account, or is that planned? I don't like signing into things with google/whatever

reginaldo 14y ago
Currently there's no other way to sign up. I believe he'll add other ways to sign up soon.
- tonylampada 14y ago
  > So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there... Turns out I can't do that with a newly created account. Bummer.
tonylampada 14y ago
We will add more ways to signup: facebook, twitter, yahoo and github, at least. I'm not a big fan of owning users' passwords, so unless people really really ask for it, we probably won't add a "create login/pass" functionality. Also, there is the concept of reputation - Sponsors that pay their offers as promised will have good reputation. For reputation to mean something, we need to know something about the user, and I believe linking with a social account is our best option for that. Anyway, talking about FreedomSponsors on GitTip's thread is probably not good for MY reputation here on HackerNews (right? I don't really know, I just signed up). So I'm gonna create a new topic and answer questions there... Thanks for your insterest!
- 18pfsmt 14y ago
  What about using Mozilla's Persona (formally BrowserID), instead of those commercial services you mentioned?
  - tonylampada 14y ago
    I didn't know about that untill now. I'll look more into it. But the main idea behind the way accounts work on FS is that the user should have some sort of online presence before he can sign up. So if Mozilla's Persona doesn't offer a way for the user to publish some sort of online profile, then we probably won't add it as a primary form of signing up on FS. Linking an existing account to authenticate later is ok. But we do want to make it more difficult to create completely "anonymous" profiles. At least that's our thinking today anyway.