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Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Also, OpenID has been removed. How do I login with my Google account?

Simple, just do a password reset on your hn username and it forwards to your gmail account

Unless you can't because that box isn't there to do a password reset. Which, btw, is really frustrating as I just had to create a second account to write this. I used to use OpenID and now I can't login to my old account at all.

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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countdown to people selling HN invites like it's a damn torrent tracker

hopefully this maintenence takes care of the issue of the login page being unstyled. i always thought it was supposed to go in a popup on the same page, that would make sense given its unstyled markup.

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countdown to people selling HN invites like it's a damn torrent tracker hopefully this maintenence takes care of the issue of the login page being unstyled. i always thought it was supposed to go in a popup on the same page, that would make sense given its unstyled markup.

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Re: HN create account removed from login page

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This could just be maintenance. I can't imagine its good for YC's business model to shut down sign ups.

Please tell me more about YC's business model.

Convince everyone that node + mongo + backbone + bitcoin is the beginning and end of all software development, from systems software to scientific computing. Receive kickbacks.

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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This could just be maintenance. I can't imagine its good for YC's business model to shut down sign ups.

Please tell me more about YC's business model.

HN is mainly goodwill for YC (any VC would pay a fortune to have HN and its audience).

So the parent comment seems to suggest that it's damaging to the goodwill of the site to disable signups.

If this was a permanent change, I'd agree, but it may be temporary, and it's not totally disabled (you can still signup by submitting content, as someone else wrote).

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