[LRUG] Show LRUG: My weekend project

[Tom Blomfield]

Interesting discussion.   

I used the new Omniauth (v1.0) + Devise (1.5.0) for login, so actually it's really very simple to allow direct signup (or allow other forms of auth, like Google, Twitter, Stackoverflow etc).

I made the choice to disable (or at least hide) direct signup because I personally don't like having to create lots of separate accounts for sites I use only very occassionally. Especially if I'm concerned about how they to store my password. But I appreciate this preference may not be shared by others.

But I absolutely agree that I should really show more information before sign-in is required. Also, an "about-us" page is coming soon! The project was only started at about 2pm on Saturday, and pushed to production at around 11 last night.  

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On Monday, 21 November 2011 at 14:07, Alexander Bienz wrote:

> Personally I feel the same way, but for this site I thought what the heck and signed in anyway.
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> It told me that Facebook doesn't track anything from the site, so essentially it does just use Facebook for authentication, which meant I didn't have to create a new login for a site that I may not use very often.  
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> I actually really appreciated the simplicity of the login in this case, I'm glad I didn't have to create a new login for this site, as I probably wouldn't have bothered.
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> Creating login functionality is a fair amount of overhead in a project, if you can simply overcome it with the use of an alternative system then why waste time on making it yourself.
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> I can see that this is going to be more common place in the future, where sites would offer a couple of options, but all will be with external networks, Googe, Facebook, Linkedin.  
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> It's just our perceptions that should change.
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> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Ronny Ager-Wick <ronny at ager-wick.com (mailto:ronny at ager-wick.com)> wrote:
> > Second that - direct site login should be default IMHO, having various social network logins as alternatives.
> > I like the idea, though!
> > Look forward to check it out once you have normal site login and/or Google login.
> > There are lots of people who never have used Facebook, as well as a large number of people leaving Facebook every month, so I'm quite surprised to see it as the only form of login...
> > Ronny.
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> > > On 21 November 2011 13:10, Tom Blomfield <tom at gocardless.com> (mailto:tom at gocardless.com) wrote:  
> > > > What account do you prefer to use? Twitter, Github, Google? Or just sign-in to the site directly?  
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> > > Personally - I prefer to log in to the site directly, but if pushed, I'll use my Google account (for instance with Stackoverflow). However, I would really prefer to see some more of the detail of what I get when I register/log in. If I can't see an example of the menus, or a précis of the event details without logging in, I'm not sure why I want to register - even an "about MealMogul" page would help. _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat at lists.lrug.org (mailto:Chat at lists.lrug.org) http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org  
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