I have a fake FB account for this reason. It is amazing how many people will friend someone who doesn't exist
Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
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Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#12I'm sorry, but its just not worth expending the extra effort to get you signed up to my service. I can get millions of people before it even starts becoming an issue.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#13It would be interesting to see HN-ers that use facebook auth in their apps share some stats on how big percentage use it?
I too believe you should have your own auth system as a base, but maybe someone can provide some numbers proving that it actually is a waste.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#14I have a fake FB account for this reason. It is amazing how many people will friend someone who doesn't exist
If you put up a few photos of a good looking girl for the profile pic and a random album, it's quite easy to get over a hundred friends, and not too hard to get many hundreds if you post on a few of those friending groups.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#15What would you think of a site that lets you use Facebook to login, or charges a Metafilter-like token $5 fee?
Is charging for a token seriously a comparative option? C'mon, when did authentication become so difficult?
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#16I'm sorry, but its just not worth expending the extra effort to get you signed up to my service. I can get millions of people before it even starts becoming an issue.
I feel that's a flawed attitude. It's like reverse entitlement.
Were I a startup founder, I would make it my goal to ensure that EVERY. single. potential customer can use my site, within my capabilities.
(edit: I don't know why you're getting downvoted; you stated your philosophy as part of the discussion, which I don't think is a good reason to get downvoted.)
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#17Incidentally, requiring Facebook/Twitter on any iPhone/iPad app will absolutely destroy your ratings.
Take the recently released Gourmet Live app for example: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id391597058?mt=8
Although they made some especially poor choices in that app (you can end up navigating into sections of the app that you can't get out of without giving a Facebook/Twitter login, oops).
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#18This is by far my largest complaint with Quora.
Agreed. I've lost track of how many times I've gone to a Quora answer, thought 'I must take a closer look at Quora', gone to the root domain, realised you need a Facebook login, then just navigated away.
I even have a Facebook account somewhere - just don't like logging into another site like this for some reason.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#19I'm sorry, but its just not worth expending the extra effort to get you signed up to my service. I can get millions of people before it even starts becoming an issue.
I feel that's a flawed attitude. It's like reverse entitlement. Were I a startup founder, I would make it my goal to ensure that EVERY. single. potential customer can use my site, within my capabilities. (edit: I don't know why you're getting downvoted; you stated your philosophy as part of the discussion, which I don't think is a good reason to get downvoted.)
It is my goal. But not right now.
Re: Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook
#20This is by far my largest complaint with Quora.
I sucked it up and registered anyway, but I still hate it and it makes me loathe to use the site.