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Not a terrible idea probably, but sophisticated users might be put off by the popup signup.

I don't care enough yet about your service to give you my personal information OR to even bother disabling Javascript which I assume defeats the popup.

Let me poke around without signing anything.

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I simply clicked "I'm already registered" link and the pop-up was gone!

Note: I didn't register.

I noticed that later. But the first time I visited, I got really annoyed at the popup, then looked for a red X, didn't see one, and left angry.

Only came back because this is on Hacker News and the meta discussion is interesting. The service itself is dead to me.

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