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The site sure starts out on 'dark pattern' footing. To sign up, you can link your LinkedIn, G+ (who has that?), github, or Facebook accounts (seemingly, not twi
by gortok 12y ago
The site sure starts out on 'dark pattern' footing. To sign up, you can link your LinkedIn, G+ (who has that?), github, or Facebook accounts (seemingly, not twitter), but once you do that, they claim there may be a username or email address conflict (even though you haven't provided an email address) so they want your email address as well.
The proof is in the pudding:
https://twitter.com/gortok/status/547468794160238592 https://twitter.com/gortok/status/547468794160238592
They could just say, "Hey, we want your email address." Not "Gee, we don't know who you really are even though you linked your unique account to us; so we want you to provide your email address".
Not a good way to start our our relationship leetcode.
- cheapsteak 12y agoI just signed up via G+ (I may be mistaken, but can't everyone with a Gmail account signin using g+ ?) Did not get any message about email address conflicts Edit: Just tried signing up with Facebook (which has one of my other email addresses on file), still no message about email address conflicts, signed up and logged me with no issue. Tried signing up for another account with GitHub and did get a message about email or username conflict this time, but I was using the same email address on G+ as Github so it was a legitimate conflict.