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>- I think I get what you're trying to do with the login / obfuscation system, but it's non-standard and that makes it somewhat confusing for me at first glance. perhaps sell the benefits on the homepage?

That's a great idea. I think it might be confusing for people at first, but somehow explaining how it's better will be very useful.

>- sell me on why this beats email

Centralised site. Communicate without email clutter. Easier to follow a site and receive regular email updates. It's similar reason that it's better to use Facebook than emailing your friends. Thanks for reminding us why we need to make this clear.

>- I like how quickly you can jump in and check it out

Great to hear. That's the kind of simplicity we're looking for.

>- why not auto-capitalize family name?

I'll add that.

>- do you really need time zone? if so, perhaps you could default via geo ip?

I was thinking the same, to try to assume via Geo IP. I'll look into it, but last time I checked, it was an insane amount of money to license.

>- the "keep my page" button is cut off in ffx 3

Ah, okay. I'll resolve that.

>- the "sharethis" option doesn't really make sense if you're trying to obfuscate these URLs...

Good point - we'll be removing those.

>- having the "post something" options as radio buttons seems kind of odd

We thought this would be a familiar user interface element for people to understand. Perhaps it's not – I'll think about what could potentially replace it.

Thank you very much for your valuable feedback! Cheers and happy holidays.



For timezone identification, the MaxMind GeoLite Country DB has plenty of accuracy and is free to use. http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country


For free geo IP, this might work:

http://geoip.dmwtechnologies.com/




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