[LamaOfRuin]

I signed up for the US launch a while ago because I believe in this model, but I have heard nothing from them since, so my email is already in their database, so they won't give me "Instant access only today for Hacker News readers."

Ingenious.

[JeanMertz]

This is indeed an annoyance that we noticed as well. Send me a message at jean [at] blendle.com and I'll get this sorted.

[glaslong]

If you're using gmail, the + alias seems to work for signup.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12096?hl=en

[LamaOfRuin]

That's really not the issue. Yes, I immediately used an email alias to bypass it, but that doesn't stop it from being a common and annoying issue with these types of access programs. I think of it the same way as people who kickstarted a product being told they're not getting access until a bunch of other people that signed up after it was fully funded.

[ff10]

I heard that email addresses are not particularly hard to come by.

[ryan-c]

They seem to be filtering certain email providers. I tried to sign up with sneakemail (a paid email service) and the reg system told me "Please sign up with your personal email address." - when I entered a password. :-(

[clarkenheim]

Could you not just use another email address?