Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
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Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
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Re: Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
#2Facebook isn't as interesting anymore. I think the new trend is more privacy/less sharing.
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#3If you're adding user accounts, there's really no excuse not to include an email & password signup option. You can alienate a lot of potential users if you require Facebook connect and don't give the option.
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#4Given the overwhelming sample size of 37, I think we can all agree that this is statistically significant information which one should base big platform decisions on.
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#5Given the overwhelming sample size of 37, I think we can all agree that this is statistically significant information which one should base big platform decisions on.
You might have missed the second half of the post:
> This is a better test, because the signup screen offers both options with equal weight and we have over 70,000 organic signups.
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#6This statement can hardly be made with the numbers that participated in this.
In addition the article isn't very good and the No - Spam option speaks more to users being wary of the application than facebook.
This doesn't seem like the typical quality of article usually voted up on HN - I'd guess people just voted it up from the link title without reading (since people love to hate facebook).
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#7If you're adding user accounts, there's really no excuse not to include an email & password signup option. You can alienate a lot of potential users if you require Facebook connect and don't give the option.
Also, you're allowing yourself to become exclusively dependent on another company's platform.
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#8This statement can hardly be made with the numbers that participated in this. In addition the article isn't very good and the No - Spam option speaks more to users being wary of the application than facebook. This doesn't seem like the typical quality of article usually voted up on HN - I'd guess people just voted it up from the link title without reading (since people love to hate facebook).
The inspiration for the survey came from the numbers we were seeing on our site (across 10's of thousands of signups). There was a clear preference for signing up with email vs facebook.
The in person survey is too small to provide meaningful numbers, but it was useful to hear real people's feedback and sentiment.
I agree that it seems weird that people would rather give their email than facebook because they "don't want spam". But that's really what they said, so that's not speculation about their reasons. And again, the survey was asking people about their experience and feelings about sites they've signed up for, not just about our site.
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#9Unfortunately some companies are in bed with Facebook and it seems it gives them more than the additional users.
For example Spotify - still allows only Facebook signups. The first quote on signup page is of course >. I'm definitely one who spent additional time to look for an alternative.
Edit: As parbo noticed, they actually do allow email+password signups again. I completely missed the link when checking.
Re: Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
#10People also hate having to create a new username/password combination for every single web service they want to try.