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Re: New feature: Article rating
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:19:07 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Lorbaat wrote:
> >
> > Currently you *can* login "ONCE" by selecting "never log me out" (or
> > something
> > similar, I don't remember the exact wording). I logged in once at home, and
> > have never re-entered my passwd. When I come back and dial up, opena
> > browser,
> > and go to Lugnet, I'm still logged in.
>
> I use too many machines for this to be useful to me.
That must be a lot of machines. I use one at home (which happens to get
multiple IPs from dynamic IPaddressing from my ISP, but that makes no
difference in the way that the Lugnet server sees me, thanks to cookies) but I
use one of a pool of 20 machines at work. Fortunately, they're using an NFS
system for my /home directory, so my Netscape is actually the same on all of
them. Even if they weren't, I'd just jot down the passwd, carry it with me for
a couple of days, and apply it to each machine.
> Plus I lose my
> cookies (sounds kinda gross) often enough on the machines I DO use on a
> regular basis.
How does that happen? And is user error really something that Lugnet needs to
accomodate?
> > IMHO, the ability to change your passwd would be nice, but I'd rather see
> > wholly new features like article rating than that particular improvement on
> > an
> > existing feature.
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> Disagree strongly.
I guess we're just going to have to agree to disagree, then.
> If the spiffy new feature isn't usable because of an easy to fix
> limitation that prevents or hinders a large subset of the population
> from using it.
It's far from unusable. It happens to be above a threshold you consider
convenient for your particuslr situation. It doesn't prevent or hinder you
from using it; your own decision that it's more comfortable for you to forget
it than to take the effort to log in prevents you from using it.
This probably sounds like I'm calling you lazy in a roundabout way, which is
not my intention. I have no idea what kind of undertaking it might be for you
to actually get all the machines you use to be logged in and not drop cookies.
It might be truly garagantuan. But I'd be willing to bet you're in a very,
very small subest of the Lugnet community there. And even at that, you could
log in on one or two "primary" machines and use those exclusively for features
that require you to log in (which, AFAIK, are limited to changing your personal
info and rating posts.... not much).
I'd much rather see Todd's Lugnet Development Time spent on totally new
features. But, as I said, that's just my opinion.
> Again, fixed passwords are wrong. They are less secure and less user
> friendly. We can go into this in depth in .geek if you want.
I don't see the need to move it. We aren't talking about a theoretical case,
we're talking about Lugnet specifically.
eric
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| (...) Well, in that LUGNET should "accomodate" the ability to set your own password (something _every_ online store/site I use does) yes. And I doubt Larry is losing his cookies due to "user error". Saving your password in a cookie is nice, but its (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I use too many machines for this to be useful to me. Plus I lose my cookies (sounds kinda gross) often enough on the machines I DO use on a regular basis. (...) Disagree strongly. If the spiffy new feature isn't usable because of an easy to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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