logan wrote:> Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while,
> and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping
> up like a bad habit. My site, Newsforwhatyoudo.com was one of the
> guilty parties. We saw users coming back to the site repeatedly, but
> not signing up. The percentage that looked at the signup form and then
> bolted was uncomfortably high. It was time to kill the signup form.
> This blog post documents how we implemented gradual engagement using
> Ruby on Rails and restful authentication.
>
> For the full article, see
>
> http://blog.henriquez.net/2009/08/kill-your-signup-form-with-rails.html
+1
I actually ran into this recently with
http://www.open.collab.net/servlets/TLogin. Why would anyone require a
signup form for downloading open source software. That was so annoying
to me I simply refused to sign up and found another solution.
MySQL.com is also a little annoying in this regard, but at least they
have a link to bypass the signup to get to the actual download.
http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.40-osx10.5-x86_64.dmg/from/pick
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