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Your site seems to require Open ID and Firefox or Safari. Why ostracize a large number of people this way?

The reason behind Open ID is to limit early users number by a kind of simple barrier. We are not yet able to handle all users at this early stage. Early adopters are usually advanced enough to sign up for OpenID (especially given we have an affiliate program with myopenid)

The reason behind requiring Firefox or Safari is simple enough too. We have not enough time yet to support every (even popular) browser. We'd like to spend time doing essential things, not tweaking HTML and CSS these days. Again, early adopters are those who are relly interested in using our app at the early stages and they seems to have no problem using FF or Safari to access our application.

I am the affiliate coordinator over at Vidoop and just wanted to mention that we have an affiliate program as well. It is a simple sign up process and is basically the same as myopenid.com's affiliate sign up. Another point to make is that offering users a few recommendations to a few "good" OIP's is good practice and let's them know you are helping them select a reputable OIP. The sign up is at affiliates.vidoop.com

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