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Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by tootie »

jiveturkey wrote: post #23

There's an evil with social login in that you give up the knowledge of your social (presumably personal) network to random 3rd parties. That's even worse than email address. With password managers being essentially mandatory now, it's not too hard to create a new email/password based account for every new site. But recently I realized that I don't use my FB for anything. I have zero friends, don't allow friend reques…

I don't think password managers have as much penetration as you think and they only work on devices you own.

Social login doesn't necessarily give up that much info. Your social network knows who logged in to. The third-party only gets whatever info you accede to which usually is just an email address or name.

The huge bonus to users and site owners is that that site isn't storing a password for you. It's easy to screw up password storage.

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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wkrause wrote: post #22

I'm the creator of Langliter, which launched a little over a month ago. 40% email 30% Google 30% Facebook Google might be a little under represented due to a bug (was fixed within a couple days) that prevented some Android users from using it to create an account.

When you say email, you mean email as username plus a password? Or you mean like TOTP via email?

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by arsalanb »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #43
arsalanb wrote: post #7

I'm currently working on a project which has only social login (but allows you to choose between facebook and google) and this was a very deliberate move. For any given person on this planet, there is a higher chance that they use facebook or gmail over any other "service", so no need to offer support for 10 different social logins. Also, this is more about imposing a qualitative filter on the users who sign up. If t…

>>[if they won’t use social login do they really like you enough? I like to think of my users as apostles] Sounds a bit scary is this some kind of cult as a service offering? It’s well known that a significant percentage of people won’t sign up with a social login. What is it about those lost users that appears to assign them less of a value in your business model? Quality of customer is definitely a consideration in…

How is it "well known that a significant percentage of people won't sign up with a social login" ?

Re: Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?

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Post by wkrause »

tootie wrote: post #52
wkrause wrote: post #22

I'm the creator of Langliter, which launched a little over a month ago. 40% email 30% Google 30% Facebook Google might be a little under represented due to a bug (was fixed within a couple days) that prevented some Android users from using it to create an account.

When you say email, you mean email as username plus a password? Or you mean like TOTP via email?

Good point, I mean user name and password, with an initial verification email. If you use the email option, you can't get into the app without first clicking a verification link in an email. That caused a few headaches after launch when my transactional mail service didn't have a great delivery rate. Still the right thing to do from a security perspective. I do have a big "preview" option on the login page for anyone looking to kick the tires before committing to creating an account, which hopefully compensates for some of the added friction in the verification process.
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