How does OkCupid achieve the same thing? They use unique tokens in the URL's of their mails, so you are instantly logged in if you visit OkCupid through any URL in their mail. It's safer, and even easier than how PoF does it, because you can just click the link instead of having to copy/paste your password into the login form.
I think it's been shown that PoF is unprofessional enough times already to discredit this whole article. Judging the evidence, Occam's razor tells me Markus is an amateur who was in the right place at the right time with a poor product, and unlike Craigslist or other projects that started out this way, he hasn't improved it at all, and is riding the wave of success from his initial userbase.
How does OkCupid achieve the same thing? They use unique tokens in the URL's of their mails, so you are instantly logged in if you visit OkCupid through any URL in their mail. It's safer, and even easier than how PoF does it, because you can just click the link instead of having to copy/paste your password into the login form.
I think it's been shown that PoF is unprofessional enough times already to discredit this whole article. Judging the evidence, Occam's razor tells me Markus is an amateur who was in the right place at the right time with a poor product, and unlike Craigslist or other projects that started out this way, he hasn't improved it at all, and is riding the wave of success from his initial userbase.