The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
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The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
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Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
#2> Before I unintentionally start a flame war
This statement would be needed if anyone thought HN was an example of good design and usability, I don't think I've ever seen a comment here claim that, it seems everyone acknowledges that HN was built to work (as in, do the very minimum it can to exist) and nothing more. The lack of polish with HN is part of the charm really.
Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
#3Hmm, posting on a Saturday is not the best tactical time to get someone at HN to read this post... it'll have disappeared off the front-page long before Monday
Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
#4Hmm, posting on a Saturday is not the best tactical time to get someone at HN to read this post... it'll have disappeared off the front-page long before Monday
If he replies to this post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363) with it then it should get noticed, that post seems to be checked every now and again.
Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
#5Why not just create a new account and move on? Unless I am missing something.
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#6Why not just create a new account and move on? Unless I am missing something.
Because I have an invitation associated with the old account that I needed to RSVP.
Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
#7Hmm, posting on a Saturday is not the best tactical time to get someone at HN to read this post... it'll have disappeared off the front-page long before Monday
If he replies to this post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 ) with it then it should get noticed, that post seems to be checked every now and again.
Thanks for pointing that out. Cross-posted the link to the url in your post. Thanks
Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
#8call?
Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
#9Hmm, posting on a Saturday is not the best tactical time to get someone at HN to read this post... it'll have disappeared off the front-page long before Monday
In fairness, I would assume that pg and al. are clued in enough to know that HN's login and registration system is complete bollocks. They just don't care about it (presumably, they consider that there are more important things to work on than fixing this, which I'd say is probably true).
Re: The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
#10"Support staff". Heh.