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Sometimes it's not the fact that you have to sign up but the way registration is done. "people will just pick their normal username and mash a laughably simple
by geeko 17y ago
Sometimes it's not the fact that you have to sign up but the way registration is done.
"people will just pick their normal username and mash a laughably simple password into the appropriate box"
It's not as easy as it sounds.
1) My username might be taken
2) Often, I have to go to my email and activate the account.
3) Entering and remembering a password is not as simple as it sounds. New York Times is a good example on how not to do it: http://twitter.com/vpdn/status/1620213111 http://twitter.com/vpdn/status/1620213111
4) Most of the time I don't see why I have to sign up.
- lucumo 17y agoThe NYT is a site where registration is unnecessary[1]. Registration was harder to do for them than it is to not have registration at all. I was talking about situations where you store data on a user and link more data to a user. Sure, you can do that using some kind of token in a cookie, but if you want to give your users a name at least some of the time, registration is easier. At that point "unregistered users" add more work. Your other examples are more a problem with the way registration is implemented, than with registration per se. [1] From a technical point of view. It probably makes business sense to them, although I'm unsure how.
- patio11 17y agomakes business sense to them It lets them publish a rate card which includes something to the effect of "46% of our pageviews come from US zip codes with median household incomes in excess of $80,000"