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Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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rsamvit wrote: post #15
ghostfish wrote: post #4

Facebook login only? This is a disturbing trend I'm noticing with a number of new websites/services. I don't think I'm alone in saying I don't like allowing apps access to all of my Facebook data and timeline. I won't use anything that only takes a Facebook login. Any plans for a stand alone login or is the Facebook data necessary for matching you up with people to chat with?

Thanks for your feedback! We use facebook login because its the easiest way for us to get the basic data to provide intelligent recommendations. We have plans to roll out a separate stand-alone login soon, where you can fill out a profile with whatever information you choose to include

That sounds like a good plan, I'll check back then. I had a facebook back in high school, but got creeped out by some of their privacy issues and deleted it, this sounds like kind of a neat idea, though.

Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Post by 385668 »

lmm wrote: post #78

When I worked in the industry we saw a few people try user-user chat. It always ended up with users sending threatening/harassing messages to each other, the service provider needing to hire moderators, and then realising that paying someone to be the other end of the chat is just as easy as paying someone to moderate and more effective. So I guess what I'm saying is I hope you've figured something out to deal with t…

Have a spam filter that directs them to only be able to talk to other threatening/harassing users and let the problem solve itself?

Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Post by werdnanoslen »

ritikm wrote: post #42
werdnanoslen wrote: post #34

Integrate with common chat clients like google and I might've more interested.

We've gotten this request multiple times actually, so expect an integration soon!

I was one of those requests via your chat, just making it here too :)

Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Post by bherms »

koopajah wrote: post #80
bherms wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then you don't sign up... Startups aren't obligated to give us everything we want and they certainly don't owe us anything. I personally don't like signing up for services using my email and I don't like signing up using Facebook... However, I don't expect startups to cater to everyone with a non-majority preference. Either I make some sort of sacrifice to use their free service, or I don't use their free service.

Ok but this is a Show HN. If we want to give feedback and test the service we HAVE to use our facebook account and give our info when we don't want it and that's problematic.

Once again though, I don't think it's problematic. I often feel that a lot of times, people don't want to pay the entry fee or wait in line to get in (figurative analogy here) and then feel left out.

We're in the tech space... If I designed a new tool for XBOX Live stats and posted to Show HN, it would follow that you would have to 1) be an XBOX Live member and 2) give me your information... I see using Facebook sign in as an extension of Facebook and not the other way around.

Just a matter of opinion from all around, though, obviously.

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