> "[Your ideas are] vastly inferior hack jobs, 0/10 stars..." [ very roughly :) ] All I'm claiming is that bitly could have offered stats without a login syste

> "[Your ideas are] vastly inferior hack jobs, 0/10 stars..." [ very roughly :) ] All I'm claiming is that bitly could have offered stats without a login system. IFTTT was just a proof of that concept, a gratuitous example, not some idealized form of stat tracking that everyone should run out and implement. You're probably right that the solution I thought of in around ten seconds sucks. I've spent more time on worse ideas. My real point is that login systems, despite their ubiquity, have their own share of downsides. Some of these downsides should be painfully evident today given the article.