Allow fevote to be used without registration.
Fevote is a really great service that I would love to use with my website....however, I feel that my users will opt to avoid using Fevote due to the mandatory sign up process before submitting suggestions.
If Fevote allowed people to post suggestions without having to register (i.e. they might just enter a temporary user name and their suggestion and that's all; then it would be voteable) I think it would be a much more popular and usable service.
I noticed that your website mentioned the API might be available sometime for us to make our own applications with, so I suppose that would solve the problem in another manner.
NoumenonTruth submitted 295 days ago to FeVote
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apantek - 295 days ago
I agree. This could be a really great tool, but when embedded in a site which ALREADY requires users to , I think that most people who were GOING to suggest something will not be enthusiastic enough to go the extra step and register on another website in order to do so.
People can using their Yahoo! IDs, Windows Live IDs, or OpenIDs. Do you think we should better emphasize those available options?
You also mentioned our API. Our Cross-Site API lets you automatically log users into FeVote. It's available to all sites that already have an authentication system. Specific information is here: https://fevote.com/api/1.0/ -- contact us to get set up.
We've considered letting unregistered users use FeVote by completing a CAPTCHA for each action, but that might be more trouble than it's worth for users.
What do you think? Feel free to comment.