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We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authentic
by lazy_nerd 13y ago
We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.
- netrus 13y agoWo don't you just use a captcha?
- lazy_nerd 13y agoyeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.
- officemonkey 13y agoMake sure to resubmit with [FIXED] so I can give it a shot.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- lazy_nerd 13y agoNope, the social login is just to prevent too many queries. We are planning to switch to Captcha in a day or two instead of social login.
- Kerrick 13y agoIf it's just to prevent too many queries, why does it require such powerful permissions for my Twitter account? - See who you follow, and follow new people. - Update your profile. - Post Tweets for you.
- HNJohnC 13y agoThat seems to me to be a terrible and Byzantine solution to a very easily resolved problem. So easily resolved in fact that I question whether this is really the reason why or are you harvesting data for some other purpose? I too never use my facebook or twitter logins for anything unless it's absolutely critical. It sounds like it could be fun otherwise.
- richardwhiuk 13y agoIf only there was some other way to implement rate limiting....