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by jbogp 12y ago
No they do not become non-users. They are still coming. Hell, the site traffic has never been so high recently although more than 88% are returning visitors. They are just satisfied with what they signed up for at the beginning I think.
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by jbogp 12y ago
I am still at the first step of this process ! I always assume I'll find the answer somewhere else anyway, which so far has always been the case.
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by jbogp 12y ago
Well my point here kind of is: most people agree with you. But if you do the website fully without login wall , don't bother putting in an optional login. People like it better without anyway.
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People hate to register, some follow-up thoughts(nospronos.com)
95 points by jbogp 12y ago|67 comments
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by jbogp 12y ago
Yes I did change it, especially in the rules ! Except "Brazil" because I needed to keep this international. By the way the French version is not the translation, it's the original.
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by jbogp 12y ago
Good point, but for something done in 3 days I didn't want to risk having left some SQL injection somewhere somehow and leaking people's email. But yes that's a good idea.
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by jbogp 12y ago
good point. wasn't sure. merci
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by jbogp 12y ago
Nah I don't actually. Just have a field in the db to know if they gave one or not, for statistics purposes...
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by jbogp 12y ago
I agree. I think the creepy feeling comes from the potential threat to your private life... I know Facebook and the others are trying hard to make it clear what permissions are involved each time you sign-up but the fact that you have to ch
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by jbogp 12y ago
I think the combining the "no registration at all" with an optional "send me the link via email" is really nice. Actually of the 5000 people who have "registered", more than half have given their email address.
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People (understandably) hate to register(nospronos.com)
192 points by jbogp 12y ago|176 comments
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by jbogp 12y ago
Yes... I though about this ! But I though that was more fair ! I mean if you get everything wrong before the round of 16, then you have no chance at all to get back in the game ! Here, at least you can still save face for the final rounds,
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by jbogp 12y ago
Well it means that on average people thought that this team would score 1.x goals during this game. I was also surprised by the small differences between teams.
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by jbogp 12y ago
You're right. There's no real privacy to protect with the urls... I'll change it even for private leagues. For the users however the "safe" url is useful otherwise people could guess other people's url and chan
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by jbogp 12y ago
Glad you like it ! Yes being able to chose a set of rules for each league would be a good idea ! I'll try implement it soon . If this is popular in the Spanish speaking world, I should try to translate it in Spanish. In case you are up
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by jbogp 12y ago
Tu peux détailler ce que t'entends par là? Genre des notifications "X vous invite à jouer à Y"? Non j'ai tendance à détester les applis qui font ça ! Par contre je vais rajouter un bouton de partage facebook pour le site
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by jbogp 12y ago
Glad I could help, I hope you and your friends enjoy !
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by jbogp 12y ago
Thanks ! Copy/pasted your suggestion. English is not my greatest strength. By the way I originally wrote everything in French. If some people prefer this just go to http://nospronos.com
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by jbogp 12y ago
I've created it for the Worldcup, but yes if I get a bit of traction I can make it work in no time for other football related events (Premier League, Champions league...) or even different sports (I'm thinking Wimbledon, Rugby wor
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by jbogp 12y ago
I wish I could ! Edit: Well Actually it would help if you could upvote my comment. At least it'd be at the top of the pile.
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by jbogp 12y ago
Sure, it's the scores for when the competition starts! So far the worldcup hasn't begun so everybody is at 0... But when the games are played the ranking will evolve ! See the rules for more precisions : http://nosprono
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by jbogp 12y ago
With my friends we wanted to have a nice friendly competition (no money involved) about the football worldcup by predicting the results. I though this might interest other groups of friends so I coded a website just for that in 3 days. Noth
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Show HN: Sports betting between friends(nospronos.com)
21 points by jbogp 12y ago|30 comments
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Snowden TV appearance during Putin's Q&A(businessinsider.com)
1 points by jbogp 12y ago|0 comments
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by jbogp 13y ago
I fully agree. Open Access journals are evil. Very nice analysis, has anyone been able to quantify the impact of the increased popularity of OA journals on the financial crisis? Also we should take into account the energy saved by all the s
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by jbogp 13y ago
Also HN ate your server apparently.
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by jbogp 13y ago
Also one of the most underrated game of those glorious times, Urban Assault : http://www.microsoft.com/games/urbanassault/
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by jbogp 13y ago
We should have stuck to our beloved Minitel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
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by jbogp 13y ago
Granted that's not patent trolling just yet, but that would definitely be a good first step towards it. I mean given that this patent was granted on the basis that the tech already existed but on capacitor screens and not touch screen
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by jbogp 13y ago
I swear every time I read one of those articles I die a little bit. I can't begin to apprehend the emptiness inside [insert patent trolling company] lawyers' souls after a day at work.

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