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Comment by orph | Hacker News Reader

Dude, why on earth do you need all those FB permissions? hackpad requests only email, and the barrier is still too high.

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Future features. The goal is to give you a good place to org your friends and get the updates you are really interested in.

So, for the sake of potential future features that you think people might want, but haven't yet implemented, and don't really know for sure, you make it harder for people to use it now. For the sake of making it "future proof" you put hurdles in place to prevent people from using it now.

People using it now gives you a working group of testers for new features. Don't make it harder for them.

I believe I just ask for email, wall posting, and access to streams. I'll take a look at my config file.

Actually, let me be more clear. One of the core features is that we let you post to facebook directly from mindwallet. We then need to read your stream to let you know when you have new comments. The fb post and comments are given an inherent context by were in your mindwallt you post from. This extends the life of your post beyond the usual temporal stream. The perms we ask for are: 1: email to establish ownership of your mw account. 2: post to wall to let you do so. 3: read stream to show you new comments 4: offline access to show others in context comments when they look at your mindwallet.

I think I can remove friend's stream for now, but that is the only unimplemented feature.

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