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I think it would be much more inviting if you could at least search for people without having made an account. As it stands I have no idea what kind of people I
by lubutu 14y ago
I think it would be much more inviting if you could at least search for people without having made an account. As it stands I have no idea what kind of people I could talk to, so I have no idea if it would be worth giving up my email address.
Edit: Interesting idea, though. With social networks like Facebook you really need to have met in order to befriend — it doesn't encourage random meetings. When I was younger I would find likeminded people by chance on odd websites; I think that's become harder as I've grown older.
- HumanamuH 14y agoYes, I understand your point. I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users. I also haven't looked into how easy it would be to harvest profile pictures and profile data. Any thoughts on this?
- lubutu 14y agoPerhaps you could only share a limited amount of information to non-users, like the topics they'd like to talk about, and an "about you" or something. Just enough to catch one's interest.
- HumanamuH 14y agoInteresting idea. If one doesn't want to leak any profile information, one could only show the number of results to non-users but not the actual profiles. Of course, it's very hard to prevent any malicious use of the profile data.
- unconed 14y ago"I didn't want to share the user profiles with non-users." And yet, if someone wants to harvest profiles, they'll just sign up with a fake/throwaway email address, while legitimate users have to give up real information to do the same.
- HumanamuH 14y agoTrue. I'm not sure how to effectively prevent harvesting. Limiting the rate at which profiles can be fetched only goes so far.