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Grasswire

19 points by shocks 12y ago

austenallred 12y ago
Oh wow, glad I saw the HN bots tweeeting that this was on the front page. (co-founder here). I'm sure people will be frustrated that there's a login gate. We don't like it either, but we had some members of ISIS come in and try to wreak havoc, and it was hard to follow their IPs, so we started requiring accounts so we could hellban them. Hopefully that's a temporary measure. We're learning there's lots we still need to fix and improve, but I'd love to hear your comments.
- devonoel 12y ago
  I was just about to comment on the login wall. You should consider at least including a tour, so people can see what this site actually is before signing up.
  - austenallred 12y ago
    Ya, it's at the top of the to-do list. Honestly didn't think this was going to take off so much, so didn't really care. But now it's become a priority.
- gelatocar 12y ago
  Sorry to hear that people have been trying to mess with your site, but why do you require an account just to view the page?
  - austenallred 12y ago
    Eventually we'll build out multiple states; we didn't have time to do that, so we just threw a gate on the whole damn thing. It's a temporary measure, fixing 10 things at once right now. Had 2,500 unexpected signups today, so things are a little hectic.
    - gelatocar 12y ago
      Fair enough, best of luck getting it all sorted.
wanda 12y ago
I swear I had an account on the old site. Or did I log in with Twitter? I forget. Anyway I'm glad I didn't have sit in a hype-building waiting list--unlike everything else these days--which I was afraid of each time I checked back to see if the site was back in action. Glad it's back though! Looking great I must say.
- xwowsersx 12y ago
  You probably did have an account :) We decided to deprecate the old accounts when we started rebuilding after our prototype. Hope it wasn't too much of an inconvenience.
sctb 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7954327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7954327
- austenallred 12y ago
  That was a year ago; was completely different
gcz92 12y ago
would love to see some sort of info or demo before having to sign up.

19 points by shocks 12y ago

Oh wow, glad I saw the HN bots tweeeting that this was on the front page. (co-founder here). I'm sure people will be frustrated that there's a login gate. We don't like it either, but we had some members of ISIS come in and try to wreak havoc, and it was hard to follow their IPs, so we started requiring accounts so we could hellban them. Hopefully that's a temporary measure. We're learning there's lots we still need to fix and improve, but I'd love to hear your comments.

devonoel 12y ago
I was just about to comment on the login wall. You should consider at least including a tour, so people can see what this site actually is before signing up.
- austenallred 12y ago
  Ya, it's at the top of the to-do list. Honestly didn't think this was going to take off so much, so didn't really care. But now it's become a priority.
gelatocar 12y ago
Sorry to hear that people have been trying to mess with your site, but why do you require an account just to view the page?
- austenallred 12y ago
  Eventually we'll build out multiple states; we didn't have time to do that, so we just threw a gate on the whole damn thing. It's a temporary measure, fixing 10 things at once right now. Had 2,500 unexpected signups today, so things are a little hectic.
  - gelatocar 12y ago
    Fair enough, best of luck getting it all sorted.

wanda 12y ago

I swear I had an account on the old site. Or did I log in with Twitter? I forget. Anyway I'm glad I didn't have sit in a hype-building waiting list--unlike everything else these days--which I was afraid of each time I checked back to see if the site was back in action. Glad it's back though! Looking great I must say.

xwowsersx 12y ago
You probably did have an account :) We decided to deprecate the old accounts when we started rebuilding after our prototype. Hope it wasn't too much of an inconvenience.

sctb 12y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7954327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7954327

austenallred 12y ago
That was a year ago; was completely different

gcz92 12y ago

would love to see some sort of info or demo before having to sign up.