Comments on: Don’t Make Registration Difficult

By: Naser

Naser — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:42:29 +0000

hEH..Although I must say that Folkd looks quite good… might be a better startup than others

By: Richard Q

Richard Q — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:15:26 +0000

“Unless Folkd is something very special, it won’t get my attention again.”

Don’t you think this is a little bit unfair? You cannot judge on a thing you don’t know yet – and they already changed that password issue.

By: Tracy Coyle

Tracy Coyle — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:20:21 +0000

Problem one: I clicked on your link and it took the same time i read your first 7 comments to load; two, what does the site do? Why would I bother to register?; This is like asking to see your driver’s license before letting you inside a restaurant that won’t tell you what kind of food they serve…

By: pwb

pwb — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:22:03 +0000

Stoopid. Maybe for financial services or company passwords, but certainly over-kill for a lame-o Web 2.0 service.

To all the dimwits who think it’s not secure enough, enforcing passwords that average people need to write down or save on their PC is quite a bit *less* secure.

I guess they go the point and changed the requirements: http://www.folkd.com/blog/?p=3

Maybe it was all part of the plan to generate traffic.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:55:46 +0000

Ha, the exact same thing happened to me today. I usually sign up for everything I can get my hands on (that reminds me, whatever happened to Allpeers?), but I let that one go for the exact same reason you stated.

And yes, it’s not a bad thing to have secure passwords, but I just don’t like people telling me how to create my passwords.

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:23:19 +0000

Honestly, if you had written, “This site won’t let me use a sufficiently strong password. Guess I won’t be coming back.”, that I could get behind. There’s tons of sites that won’t let you use special characters in passwords, and worse, tons of sites that specify a maximum length for your password. Those are what I really object to, because it’s typical done to squeeze a plaintext password into say, a varchar(15) (instead of say, a salted MD5 or SHA1 hash where the length of the hash is the only thing that matters). This indicates to me that the authors of the site don’t know the first thing about security.

By: Ryan Zielke

Ryan Zielke — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:06:17 +0000

I think its great to start having more strong passwords. I think people aren’t aware how easy it is to get into areas when people aren’t taking the appropriate measure. It is nice to see someone doing something about that.

By: Christian J. Koch

Christian J. Koch — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:46:51 +0000

Its good to see some web companies have a good sense of security!

The password was no problem… I’m use to choosing complex passwords for everything, no matter what the service

By: Nick Pang

Nick Pang — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:57:04 +0000

that’s the standard password rules i’ve encountered on a yahoo-owned web site. they must be using the same validation open-source code!

it makes you think twice (or thrice in my case) before picking a simple password. it took me 3 tries before i realized what they’re asking for. i had to write down the password somewhere – it was too hard to remember and also case-sensitive.

By: Rogel

Rogel — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:22:44 +0000

You are too harsh. I tried the registration and it was easy and user friendly. I don’t know if the service worth it, but I’m now registered:)