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bluesaunders on Oct 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Login Screen – behind the scenes

The gravatar is a nice touch, but it works even if my email is not signed up with your service, which felt a bit misleading.

I got the sense of, "this is the correct email address to login with because the system recognized me" when in fact it was the wrong email.

simontabor on Oct 11, 2012 [–]

Good point - the reason for it is we wanted it to be entirely independent of our users db for security/privacy reasons (and simplicity!)

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