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My email client keeps crashing this evening for some reason, and what I want to say doesn't fit into the 'feedback' page you have there, so I say it here:

I'd like to use your site, but I don't have a Facebook account (removed it a couple years ago), and don't want to be bothered to remember what my twitter password (which I virtually haven't used once in the past years) was.

I understand why you might want to enforce a social network account (1. engaging people to be more social and bring their friends and 2. simpler management of accounts), but I personally have literally zero interest in what my friends like to watch, and have never and would never use Twitter/Facebook. Why can't I use your site? I know I'm not the norm, but you should allow everyone to use your service. If you're valuable to them, they'll bring their friends with them, and if they're not, then having their friends' usernames won't help you. Registering and keeping track of users is absurdly easy, so I think you should re-consider your choice of mandating social accounts.

(Sorry it's not relevant to this topic, just wanted you to know that there are people like me who shy away from any and every service that requires OAuth)



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