Alan Coopersmith wrote: > So instead should we be encouraging everyone to move all webpage content > to the genunix wiki, with its less obnoxious authentication timeouts, and > abandon all use of opensolaris.org for everything but the source code? > Will that be less confusing for users than simply always requiring > authentication to change your ssh key and allowing long timeouts for > cookies for the rest of the site? (As Simon points out, I find nothing > confusing about Amazon remembering who I am when I visit, but making me > type my password before accessing my credit card.)
I think that's a bit of an overreaction, to be honest. And if you are happy with Amazon's model you'll be happy with ours - browsing the site will be unaffected, you'll only be asked to provide your password if you want to change anything. > Does anyone use the cookies to track metrics of how often our registered > users visit the site? With cookies forced to expire, the only users who > will login will be those who need to edit pages, and the vast majority > of our registered users will return to being anonymous. The vast majority of our users are anonymous, and we don't track browsing by cookie. Nothing will change in that respect. -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
