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   by jgill 19y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. Looks like the site needs better introductory material. The initial screen that you see was intended to give the user a preview of the site, then when they try to rate any show, they are redirected to the sign up
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   Ask YC: Feedback From Fellow Hackers On ShowFilter.com

   9 points by jgill 19y ago|5 comments
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   by jgill 19y ago

   Yes, something similar to OpenID and Googlecheckout. The problem would be that the Yahoo!'s, Microsoft's, and AOL's of the world would not allow Google to centrally manage all user IDs and registration information on the web (or they would
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   by jgill 19y ago

   Open ID would be a good solution if it was adopted on a wider scale and was more on it's way to becoming a trusted standard. I think many sites require extranenous registration information just because other sites request the same informati
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   by jgill 19y ago

   If you really want to get rid of sign up forms, having a large scale trusted and secure central repository for unique IDs/logins and 'commonly requested' information would eliminate the need for many sign up forms. The majority of web base
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   by jgill 19y ago

   I realized long ago that sometimes the one to build the ship isn’t necessarily the best captain. I’ve used the analogy a few times because it points out the difference in skills needed to perform the set of tasks involved in starting and r