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Why they require login for tutorial pages in the first place?

The copy says it's some interactive thing with quizzes and such.

I didn't get any value out of the 'gamification' element. Would have preferred to have not logged in.

We're currently working on rewriting /learn to not require any login while still retaining the gamification element (in offline storage). Meaning that you get the best of both worlds.

Just to explain the reason there is a login at all, this is mostly for historical reasons. The original learnnextjs.com built by Arunoda was based on another project he created for teaching Meteor.

Anyway as said we're rewriting /learn, using MDX (http://github.com/mdx-js/mdx) for content and the quizzes will store the result in your browser.

Very cool! Makes sense that you got it for free from Meteor, great that you're iterating based on feedback.

> great that you're iterating based on feedback

Thank you for providing feedback in a friendly way, we're always happy to improve where possible! In case you're curious we have a WIP pull-request: https://github.com/zeit/next-site/pull/159

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