HN create account removed from login page • Hacker News Board

Re: HN create account removed from login page

#51

Post by Mz » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:15 PM UTC

vladd wrote: post #19

georgespencer wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Er, no. HN is part of YC's screening and application process. You have to have an HN account to apply to YC and if you have been an active user, your comments here basically become part of the screening process. It is part of why HN is better behaved than a lot of forums: Being an asshole here can help close doors for some folks which are potentially worth million$.*

* At least, this was all true last I heard. I have not looked at their application or application rules/process recently.

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Post by Mz » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:16 PM UTC

I have been a tad out of the loop. Can someone clue me as to what LinkedIn thingy is being referred to?

Thanks.

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Post by thedufer » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:37 PM UTC

Mz wrote: post #52

I have been a tad out of the loop. Can someone clue me as to what LinkedIn thingy is being referred to? Thanks.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073309

LinkedIn's password database leaked earlier today.

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Post by Mz » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:38 PM UTC

thedufer wrote: post #53

Mz wrote: post #52

I have been a tad out of the loop. Can someone clue me as to what LinkedIn thingy is being referred to? Thanks.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073309 LinkedIn's password database leaked earlier today.

Thank you. I am short of sleep and just didn't put 2 and 2 together. Duh.

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Post by naner » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:55 PM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #8

pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet. edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174 , but I'm…

FYI Metafilter does the same thing.

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Post by teeray » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 11:38 PM UTC

pauljonas wrote: post #49

HN Search is broken too, or stopped updating circa 5 days ago… …makes the site _much_ less useful for me, I must confess.

seriously... I have it as an autocomplete in chrome: hn[tab] and I can get community-vetted stuff ^_^

Re: HN create account removed from login page

#57

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 11:43 PM UTC

RegEx wrote: post #38

nostromo wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was the day of the SOPA blackout IIRC. Redditors were bored and looking for their hit of lolcats.

Bashing Reddit on HN? SO BRAVE

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Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Post by poiu_ytrewq » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 11:56 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #4

Yeah, but if you try to comment on something, it will prompt you to create an account. Go ahead an log out of your account and try to comment on this link.

works!

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Post by SkyMarshal » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 12:09 AM UTC

muddylemon wrote: post #33

koeselitz wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wondered that for a while, too. But there is a forgot password link, actually. You just have to enter your username and leave the password field blank, and then hit "login." You'll then be presented with a link to get a newly-generated password in an email.

That's... intuitive.

It's not supposed to be, it's a hacker filter. Same with the color scheme, design, etc.

Re: HN create account removed from login page

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Post by andrewcooke » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 12:25 AM UTC

naner wrote: post #55

thaumaturgy wrote: post #8

pg (or possibly another admin these days) will remove the create-account functionality if HN suddenly becomes very popular, as with the LinkedIn thread. I'm trying to find one of his comments where he mentions this, but there are 8,511 to wade through, and the obvious searches haven't found it yet. edit: I may have misremembered; the first reference I've found was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3481174 , but I'm…

FYI Metafilter does the same thing.

they also change a minimal amount - $5 i think - that discourages idle registration. i think it works well for them. maybe hn should consider it (it's not for profit - it's for the psychological "bump").