I love applications. I love to try out new ones.
One of the biggest barriers many applications have is the sign-up process. You have to balance the information needed to create an account, with the effort a user goes through to enter that information. Many times the user looses in that tradeoff. I wanted to make the sign-up process as easy as possible for our apps. In fact, we need only 4 items from a user: first and last name, email, and a password. (And, by golly, we will soon combine first and last name into one field):
One Step Registration
Further, the goal of Raveal is for others to discover you. We spend quite a bit of effort in getting our Raveal profiles indexed with major search engines.
The side affect of these two things is that many “Search Engine Optimization” douche-bags have caught on and are creating accounts for spamming search engines. Of course, none of us here have any patience for these practices and shut down the accounts within minutes of being created. Luckily, the flow is just a trickle. However, I do fear that if the number of spam accounts increases, we’ll have to put measures in place that increase the amount of effort new users spend on getting setup. And that pisses me off!
So we’ll do our best to not mess up a good thing while keeping these spamtards out of our system.
About the author
Mike Wille - I'm the head techie here with a passion and hunger for all things digital. I got into programming because I love to create and couldn't cut a straight line in wood shop.