[LRUG] Show LRUG: My weekend project

David Salgado david at digitalronin.com
Mon Nov 21 07:18:31 PST 2011


On a separate note, have you looked into the legal side of this, at
all? Is it actually legal to serve food & drink in your home and
charge people to eat it without getting licences or certifications or
whatever?

I know it sounds stupid, but if someone gets food poisoning or has a
serious allergic reaction, it's quite possible that lawyers could get
involved, which is rarely fun, and if your site is inciting people to
do something that isn't legal, I imagine there could be some liability
for you, as well.

I would have thought that all that is required is a disclaimer, but
it's probably worth thinking about.

IANAL

On 21 November 2011 14:55, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> Before taking all this "Boo! Facebook login!" feedback too seriously it's
> worth working out who your target audience for this is.  I suspect that they
> might not have as much concern about using facebook login as we do.  The
> flipside being that they are hugely unlikely to want to use github or
> stackoverflow to login.  Even if you can add 20 different auth providers,
> doesn't mean you should.
> On 21 November 2011 14:15, Tom Blomfield <tom at gocardless.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>> --
>> Tom Blomfield
>> +44 7767 484619
>>
>> www.gocardless.com
>>
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> 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.
>> It's just our perceptions that should change.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Ronny Ager-Wick <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.
>>
>> Michael Pavling wrote:
>>
>> On 21 November 2011 13:10, Tom Blomfield <tom at gocardless.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> What account do you prefer to use? Twitter, Github, Google? Or just
>> sign-in
>> to the site directly?
>>
>>
>> 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.
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