Email Registrations
January 11th, 2006 by MikeI think this will become a series of posts on usability or at least incompetent practices I encounter on the web. I just followed a link to Fool.com and was asked to register (only an email address) before continuing to the content (”it’s free!” they said). I entered asd@asd.com (literally), I was thanked by the Fool team and was off to the races.
What good does that do any of us? You get a fake email and I had to drive over a speed bumb before getting to the content. If you are going to ask me to register, at least confirm the email before giving me access. If you believe your content deserves an email address, get an email address. Otherwise you are just wasting everyone’s time.
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