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Is there a way to create an account and tell prismatic my interest without logging in with any social network account? I would prefer to keep things separate.

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Sure, you can create a "stealth" account that's not attached to any social networks. You'll miss out on our automatic interest suggestions and the ability to share out to your friends, but you can always attach those accounts later.

If you create a stealth account you'll get a canned set of suggestions, but you can still use search through our hundreds of thousands of topics and publishers to tell us what you're interested in.

Uh, so I created a stealth account on my desktop, so I could easily generate a random password. Then logged out, preparing to log back in so the browser would remember my account. But I can't find any way to log back in, only create another account. What am I missing?

What platform are you browsing from? There should be a login link at the top right of the landing page.

Oh, the main page seems broken in WebKit (I was using Safari, also broken in Chrome). I can see the login link with Firefox.

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