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If I sign in with my Twitter/Facebook account, what do you do with it? Will things I say on WatchThis site show up on Twitter/Facebook? (I say this as someone looking to sign in and even clicking the Sign In button -- there's no indication of what will happen if I do it).

Right now it doesn't look possible to sign up without a Twitter/Facebook account.

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We're working on the possibility to allow the users to publish on Facebook/Twitter their comments and favorites if they want to. But we currently don't publish anything on Facebook/Twitter.

You're right, we should make it more clear.

We disabled the login/password login option because it's easier for our users (automatic nickname suggestion, no password to remember, future Facebook/Twitter publishing) and more interesting for us (user photo for instance).

Do you need a Facebook/Twitter account to use the site? I have neither.

I have both but without knowing more about the site have no interest in signing into your site with either of these accounts.

I see this complaint a lot. As programmers, what do you recommend people who are rapidly prototyping websites to do? I think using Facebook or Twitter as a signin is the easiest way to get user administration on your site. Is there another way people recommend?

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