Okay, so I’m finally in. No wonder I never bothered before. Let me count the annoyances:
(0) I’ve signed up to post to boingboing before, but my old userid and password were dead.
If you couldn’t import them to the new system, then maybe you shouldn’t be using it…
(1) Lots of whizzy javascript boxes, requiring me to use a virgin firefox to get it to work.
(2) Ditto icons and such that disappear against my preferred background, which is black.
(3) It took me some time to decide to click on the little man icon in the upper right.
Perhaps there’s something clearly labeled “login” all the way at the bottom, and I missed it?
(4) I sign-up for discourse.org, it sends me email, I click it, then I try to login at boingboing to post. This doesn’t work. It tells me I haven’t dealt with the email yet.
(5) I return to my email and find I have a second piece of email from boingboing with yet another link to click. Double authentication? Sure is nice to know that no one is going to be able to post embarrassing remarks at boingboing for me (that’s my job).
All in all, this is looking like the same wonderful user experience we have all come to expect from our Web 2.0 lord and masters. It would no doubt be easier if only I were willing to sign over my identity to facebook or google.
