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Comment by wspeirs | Hacker News Reader

Why do I have to create a new account for this site? I have Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc; consider using one of those site and OAuth to provide a more frictionless experience for first-time users, especially considering your site requires me to come back X days later to really see it work. My $0.02...

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I much prefer an email and password style login especially for new sites. I typically try a service with a burner email account, then I can easily walk away from it all without continuing to get email. Plus if you end up selling my address for spam I know who you are...

If your target audience is HN users, consider this comment. However, I've found in my analytics that most users don't care about the type of login.

You can't please everyone. If a website has only username and password, there's a complaint. If a website only has OAuth, there's a complaint.

why not both?

that puzzled me too o.o

"most users don't care about the type of login"

Majority of the population get paid, minority of the population go pay.

Same theory works here.

I don't mind creating an account, but I'd let users try the product without one. I don't want to go through signing up – no matter if via OAuth or creating a dedicated account – just to find out the product doesn't suit me due to some details I could not find out by the page or video. Unless absolutely unreasonable, I think you should always allow users to test your product anonymously.

How do you remember which one you created an account with?

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