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However, the site hits one of my hot buttons: harvesting email addresses. As a live person, all that really matters to me is a username and password. My experience suggests the long term potential cost of providing a working email isn't worth it just to try the site out on the off chance that it turns out to be a community worth joining.

I understand that it is a way of trying to handle spam on your end. Not providing an email address is a way of handling spam on my end. Offloading your problem onto the user, is the inverse of a useful business proposition. How does Hacker News manage to work without it?

Anyway, that's my issue not yours. Again, nice work.

I'm curious regarding how you see the site evolving. Will it be a platform for other authors too?