On: Why are 95% of blogs abandoned?

[cbs]

I like this idea, I've had a thing or two I wanted to write on, but didn't want to setup a blog. I've actually thought of building something similar myself.

So, excited about this website, I clicked on "Write a post". Oh, you want to tie to my twitter account. Nevermind.

[mol2103 → cbs]

Why not connect your Twitter account? We won't post anything on your behalf...perhaps we should have made that clearer :/

[guga31bb → mol2103]

I neither have nor want a Twitter account, but even if I did, there's no reason to want to link it to this service.

[cbs → mol2103]

>Why not

Why In the first place?

I plain old don't want to use my twitter account for this, or be forced to create a throwaway account on a completely unrelated service just to have a throwaway account for yours. And all because you can't be arsed to do any real auth, or allow users to post without accounts at all, which given the nature what you've built makes a whole, whole lot of sense. If I want to have to to make an account as a prerequisite to posting a one-off blogpost, I'll go get a blogger account.

I don't care if you promise a whole huggy bunch not to do anything with my twitter account. I don't trust you and I sure as hell don't trust your website's security.

[hugopeixoto → mol2103]

This is why (in my case):

You asked for permissions to * See who you follow, and follow new people. * Update your profile. * Post Tweets for you.

This is a no-no for me. I believe you can specify that you want read-only access, which would solve my problem.

[Aga → mol2103]

For what it's worth, the need for a Twitter account was a no-go for me too..

[JonoW → mol2103]

Sorry me too, you're asking for too many permissions, why not just read-only if it's auth only?

[getsat → cbs]

> Post Tweets for you.

Hahaha, no.