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> As a developer I want to use this to persist and sync data between devices. It provides a unique identifier I can use for the user before they trust my app en
by wtbob 12y ago
> As a developer I want to use this to persist and sync data between devices. It provides a unique identifier I can use for the user before they trust my app enough to want to login.
Email address, allowing me to use '+' as a mailbox extension. I'll use wtbob+yeldarbsite@example.net. Done.
> We have found that a significant number of users will just quit the app if presented with a "sign up or login" with Facebook screen at the beginning of the flow.
Yup. I refuse to log in with Facebook anywhere but…Facebook.
> With this, they don't have to give us any personal data and can start using our app right away.
I'd still be using Facebook to log in, so no thanks.
> regarding the user side, the problem for a lot of users isn't that they don't trust Facebook.
I don't. In fact, I trust your website with my per-website email a lot more than I do Facebook.
- nulltype 12y agoOkay, but how do I prevent spammers from signing up with randomly generated email addresses?
- marcosdumay 12y agoOk, now you are being honest about it. This is a real problem, and I don't know the answer to that either. There must be better ways than making Facebook the toil taker of the web. If it makes anything better, I'm one of those people that run away once you ask to log-in with Facebook, and that change won't make me start using it.
- eastbayjake 12y agoI'm guessing that Facebook can put far more resources into random-email-spam-account mitigation than any one company using Facebook Login. You'd face this same problem rolling your own auth/login system.