I completely agree accounts and logins are a big ugly barrier for
uptake. We have been doing work in a similar direction, but it's not
nearly as clever... basically we're planning on doing the front page
as a fully working demo (with sort of tutorial built in) and if you
configure something you like you can create an account to save it...
I think this is a very cool idea... An interesting extension of this
would be something like generating a URL that you can hand out to a
friend that gives them the right to collaborate on your jug, but then
also revoke if you feel like it. No login or signup for them either...
- Luke
On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
Another thought on the no-login-thing:
You could just register an unconfirmed email address with your
persistent session ID. Then if you don't have the session ID you
can request it by entering an email address. If you accidentally
post your secret URL (with the embedded ID) then you could support
changing the ID with email verification.
For something like Melkjug, a more public mode might be nice too, as
session IDs are very personal. But I think that would just be
something like "publish this jug" which would give it a URL like http://melkjug.com/jugs/my-jug
, and then all the links would be under that, and it would be
orthogonal to the private session ID from that point on. But from
there you could still support certain operations via session ID
again (where an administrator session ID is attached to the public
jug). All of which is really very much like a login, but without
logging in, which I think for something like Melkjug could be big
advantage in uptake. It's also reasonably translatable to Open ID
at some later date, in some ways more easily than a typical user
account system.
Ian
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