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> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, preferably without having to sign up, get a confirmation email, and other such barriers. You'll get more

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, preferably without having to sign up, get a confirmation email, and other such barriers. You'll get more feedback that way, plus HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638 > Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html This looks very interesting but Show HNs need to be usable easily without making an account

emaro 2y ago
You don't need to sign up. But I saw the play button only in Firefox. In Chromium the Play button wasn't there.
- numberless 2y ago
  Odd but still not within the guidelines as > HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops Is in them
  - pvg 2y ago
    It just isn't the case that you can't have a Show HN without signups - it's preferable for the friction-to-try be as low as possible but sometimes 'as low as possible' is, in the given context, still a fair bit of friction. Lots of Show HN's are in very early stages and unpolished, some use finicky/newish technologies, etc. If this particular one is too much of a hassle and you bounce off, that's fine but the suggestion the poster is breaking some sort of rule here is inaccurate.
  - cchance 2y ago
    what hoops? i clicked, play .. play now and got in... it crashed, on Arc (osx) but it started to load and i saw people moving around
  - Kiro 2y ago
    You click "Play now" and you're in the game. That's less friction than most Show HNs. You’re misinterpreting the rules and being overly zealous for no reason.
    - Perenti 2y ago
      No "Play now" button on Firefox for me, only "Sign up" and "Log in". No corporate webpages, only anti-social media links to invite people. No "FAQ", "About" etc links. Not human friendly.
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jonkuze 2y ago
you don't need to signup at all to play! thank you for the feedback
- Perenti 2y ago
  Firefox 133 no play now button at all. only "sign up" and "log in".
  - jonkuze 2y ago
    Thanks for the feedback... will look into testing further on Firefox.

emaro 2y ago

You don't need to sign up. But I saw the play button only in Firefox. In Chromium the Play button wasn't there.

numberless 2y ago
Odd but still not within the guidelines as > HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops Is in them
- pvg 2y ago
  It just isn't the case that you can't have a Show HN without signups - it's preferable for the friction-to-try be as low as possible but sometimes 'as low as possible' is, in the given context, still a fair bit of friction. Lots of Show HN's are in very early stages and unpolished, some use finicky/newish technologies, etc. If this particular one is too much of a hassle and you bounce off, that's fine but the suggestion the poster is breaking some sort of rule here is inaccurate.
- cchance 2y ago
  what hoops? i clicked, play .. play now and got in... it crashed, on Arc (osx) but it started to load and i saw people moving around
- Kiro 2y ago
  You click "Play now" and you're in the game. That's less friction than most Show HNs. You’re misinterpreting the rules and being overly zealous for no reason.
  - Perenti 2y ago
    No "Play now" button on Firefox for me, only "Sign up" and "Log in". No corporate webpages, only anti-social media links to invite people. No "FAQ", "About" etc links. Not human friendly.

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jonkuze 2y ago

you don't need to signup at all to play! thank you for the feedback

Perenti 2y ago
Firefox 133 no play now button at all. only "sign up" and "log in".
- jonkuze 2y ago
  Thanks for the feedback... will look into testing further on Firefox.