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Re: Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

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Post by bryne »

jasonkester wrote: post #43
alexeckermann wrote: post #42

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I agree that might be the case but actually the Twitter and OpenID authentication is much safer. 1) When you authenticate with Twitter or OpenID its all done on Twitter or your OpenID providers site. We cant snoop your credentials at all, you dont enter it on our site. 2) Sure authentication is an easy feature but this way we dont need to ask you for your details again, you let us talk to your service and use your ex…

You forget though that you've studied all this stuff. Casual users of your thing won't have. So when you say "Give me your Twitter username and password", they'll say no. It doesn't matter that it's actually safe. It certainly doesn't sound safe, and that's all that matters. Argue against it at your own peril. People are comfortable with user/pass.

You're blowing up a straw man. Quite a few people may actually have an active Twitter session and thus no active password entry even occurs. Open it up to Facebook Connect and it's more of the same.

You're comfortable with new user/pass and it doesn't sound safe to you.

Re: Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

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Post by mickeyben »

alexeckermann wrote: post #26
doug11235 wrote: post #25

The search function does not work for me. I typed in 'Baltimore' and received zero results. But when I browsed the listings I came upon Beehive Baltimore ( http://desksnear.me/workplaces/32-beehive-baltimore ).

Hey. We are onto this right now. Just having some issues with using a Google API service and request limits. Team Skype call is underway :)

Is it an issue with the geocoding limit ? if so why don't you geocode client-side ?

Re: Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

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Post by dannyr »

jasonkester wrote: post #38
alexeckermann wrote: post #36

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Yup we will be expanding the site soon. We built the site in 48 hours for the Rails Rumble competition. We kept it light as we could. After the judging and voting we will be adding in more features and options for login :) Although we think using Twitter or OAuth is the easiest way. 1 Auth and your email address, thats it. Thanks for your feedback.

How could implementing OpenID and OAuth for Twitter be faster to implement than a User table? Certainly you've built web apps before, and therefore have a login workflow that you can rip out and drop into a new site in the first 5 minutes of development? One other thing you're missing is that as a new user of your thing, I don't trust you enough to hand across my twitter username or openID. I'm more than happy to cre…

Hey, cut them some slack. This is for a weekend competition and if they think it is faster for them to implement OpenId and Twitter OAuth, it's their choice.

Give them the benefit of the doubt that it makes more sense for them to do this than an email/password authentication.

I don't think they are trying a big push for their site right now so they just need to do enough to make it work.

Re: Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

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Post by keithpitt »

newman314 wrote: post #44
bjeanes wrote: post #20

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We completely agree. We are currently discussing the best way to do this

Also, please show number of desks available at the "at a glance" page. http://desksnear.me/workplaces Right side can be reformatted to present more information. So something like "20 @ $30" would be useful.

Its on the list of things to do in our next release. We cant push any new features up for 5 days because of the competition were in.

Re: Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

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Post by dannyr »

jasonkester wrote: post #43
alexeckermann wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that might be the case but actually the Twitter and OpenID authentication is much safer. 1) When you authenticate with Twitter or OpenID its all done on Twitter or your OpenID providers site. We cant snoop your credentials at all, you dont enter it on our site. 2) Sure authentication is an easy feature but this way we dont need to ask you for your details again, you let us talk to your service and use your ex…

You forget though that you've studied all this stuff. Casual users of your thing won't have. So when you say "Give me your Twitter username and password", they'll say no. It doesn't matter that it's actually safe. It certainly doesn't sound safe, and that's all that matters. Argue against it at your own peril. People are comfortable with user/pass.

I'll argue to the contrary.

Lots of sites use Facebook Connect because it actually drives signups.

Where are you basing your argument that people do not actually want to give their twitter username and password?

In my experience, a lot of casual users do not actually care. We had an email inviter that was used frequently where people actually have to give out their Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail credentials.

You may be comfortable with user/pass but do not make the assumption that the rest of the world are. You may think you're mainstream but you're probably not.

Re: Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

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Post by keithpitt »

bryne wrote: post #51
jasonkester wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You forget though that you've studied all this stuff. Casual users of your thing won't have. So when you say "Give me your Twitter username and password", they'll say no. It doesn't matter that it's actually safe. It certainly doesn't sound safe, and that's all that matters. Argue against it at your own peril. People are comfortable with user/pass.

You're blowing up a straw man. Quite a few people may actually have an active Twitter session and thus no active password entry even occurs. Open it up to Facebook Connect and it's more of the same. You're comfortable with new user/pass and it doesn't sound safe to you.

I see what you guys mean. Hopefully when we can add features agin we'll able to implement these things. We had FB connect, but took it out because we didnt have time to test it enough. We also took out username/password auth because we felt it would complicate things - perhaps not?

Re: Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

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Post by keithpitt »

mickeyben wrote: post #52
alexeckermann wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey. We are onto this right now. Just having some issues with using a Google API service and request limits. Team Skype call is underway :)

Is it an issue with the geocoding limit ? if so why don't you geocode client-side ?

We have a fix in the pipeline that does :D But we can't push it up just yet...

Re: Desks Near Me - find great coworking places to work at

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Post by mechanical_fish »

tomjen3 wrote: post #41
jasonkester wrote: post #34

Please please please, let me create an account without having to jump through silly hoops like OpenID or Twitter. Your little website just isn't compelling enough for me to do that. I want to try it though, just to give you some feedback. Please let me create a simple login so that I can do so.

OpenID is easier than having to register for each site. And you have Gmail right? Then you have an openid account.

I have something like six Google accounts and a couple of Yahoo accounts and a LiveJournal account and three Twitter accounts and a Facebook account and a bunch of other things that come with OpenIDs.

What I don't have is any idea what OpenID I'm supposed to be using for any given service.

I've tried to just pick one, but the other thing I don't have is a desire to share my login history with any of the above sites, or to link my identity on any of those sites with my identity on New Fly-By-Night Site X without at least trying out Site X, and possibly checking its references too.

Something I do have is an automated workflow for handling usernames and passwords.

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