I only mention it because users actually do behave strangely this way. Every field you show them loses a percentage of them. It's weird. Here's an experience

I only mention it because users actually do behave strangely this way. Every field you show them loses a percentage of them. It's weird. Here's an experience I had a couple years ago where a small tweak to remove a signup barrier more than doubled the number of people signing up: http://twiddla.blogspot.com/2007/04/1000-signups-on-day-one.html http://twiddla.blogspot.com/2007/04/1000-signups-on-day-one....