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I hear you. It's a temporary measure: https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_Why_do_I_need_to_authenticate_with_Facebook_to_receive_my_stellars_ https://www.stellar.org/
by gdb 12y ago
I hear you. It's a temporary measure: https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_Why_do_I_need_to_authenticate_with_Facebook_to_receive_my_stellars_ https://www.stellar.org/faq/#_Why_do_I_need_to_authenticate_.... Basically, it was an easy (but imperfect) way to start. We'd certainly love suggestions for other channels to distribute stellars.
- spacefight 12y agoThe signup with FB to get 5000 stellars pushed me off. Why should I give a totally new non-profit organisation access to my FB profile? I guess most of the devs here know, what that mean in terms of privacy.
- gdb 12y agoYep, for sure. The goal is to get stellars into the hands of as many people as possible, and so moving beyond just FB is definitely a priority. (If you want, I'd be happy to send you a few stellar to play with in the meanwhile.)
- borec 12y agoI absolutely hate Facebook but I have a Facebook account which I never use (mostly used to look up people). I tried to use this account during the Stellar registration process and I am getting "Facebook account is too new to qualify". Can you please help?
- gdb 12y agoOof, that's annoying. We probably can't tell the age on your account. If you send me your stellar username, I'll send some stellars over.
- 0x0 12y agoAren't fb user IDs assigned as increasing numbers? You could probably just decide on a cut-off user ID and treat all lower numbers as "older".
- ahupp 12y agoThey are increasing within any one user database, but there are many of these databases. So useridA < useridB only implies B is newer than A if dbid(useridA) == dbid(useridB).
- spacefight 12y agoThanks - same username as on HN.
- gdb 12y agoShazam! You have stellars.
- spacefight 12y agoThanks. Just out of curiosity, how did you get your Stellars?
- gdb 12y agoThe same way as everyone else — OAuth'd with Facebook :).
- patrickk 12y agoWould appreciate some also. The connect with Facebook button on the Stellar dashboard isn't working. Username is keanemachine ;)
- noso 12y agoME too I have same problem with the facebook button. Same username as this one i.e. noso.
- jhall 12y agoUnfortunately, I don't have a FB account either. It isn't clear that one is required at signup. Any chance of at least a partial allotment? Username is joninasheville. Thanks.
- maaku 12y agoI'm in the same boat -- same username as HN, but facebook login isn't working.
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- rydo 12y agoI've got the same problem as some other users here, my FB account was flagged as spam -- not that surprising since I don't use it, but it's annoying.
- gwynp 12y agosame problem here. I hope they provide other methods for doing this soon.
- ingenieroariel 12y agoCan I also get some stellar? Same username here and there. Thanks in advance.
- gdb 12y agoYep, some should be on their way shortly.
- ingenieroariel 12y agoGot them, thanks!
- simonebrunozzi 12y agoHow can I, instead, get in touch with you directly? simone.brunozzi then the weird character then gmail.
- yogo 12y agoSame username as HN, no Facebook account.
- guy_c 12y agoAppreciate having some stellar for my account too - 'guyc'
- Zhenya 12y agosame user name as here - don't have facebook
- ryan-c 12y agoWell, since everyone else is asking, my username is ryanc, and I don't have a Facebook account.
- byproxy 12y ago"ochoa" wouldn't mind some stellar sans Facebook account.
- tripzilch 12y agoThat'd be great, I don't have FB. My username is tripzilch, the same as on HN.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoSame here .. why does a currency exchange need access to my FB friends and photos? For all I know the whole thing has been set up as a ruse to show that idiot tech-heads will give away their ID and family photos for "magic beans" in the form of potentially worthless private currency. Of course I'm happy to beg for "money" .. so you're still reading gdb, please give me some stellar (username: pbhj). Thanks!
- mkaziz 12y agoIt was the photo's that did it for me. Basic profile info, I can accept. Photo's, no.
- rcsorensen 12y agoI'd love to see some https://keybase.io/ https://keybase.io/ integration. There's some nice overlap with the federation concept, even if the "one-account-per-physical-person" story isn't as compelling.
- Periodic 12y agoIt's hard to establish identity without using one of these centralized services. As someone without a Facebook account I'm also a little sad. I don't know if other centralized accounts have as many good ways to prevent new accounts from signing up. For example, Google and Microsoft accounts might not be so easy to associate with a real history. University accounts might be another way. Some people who don't like centralized services like Facebook and Google will still have a university email address.
- comp88th 12y agoHello, I tried signing up but kept getting the error message "Oops Please verify your facebook account and try again" I typed in my correct facebook user and password. Not sure why it is not working correctly. Please advise. If you can send me some stellars to play with meanwhile my user name is uprun478 Thanks