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by mynameishere 6698 days ago
I guess I don't see the point. People are complaining about fuzzy images or whatever. I thought the interface was okay, but the question of where and how value is being added is not at all clear.

Also, go through your codebase, and anytime you see something like this:

"Please login to access 'Find Companies / Jobs"

...do a total re-write. I'm not logging it to an unfamiliar website, and neither are 95 percent of people.

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point well taken, since users can enter and edit the database of companies, how would you approach trying to keep some semblance of security for the database without knowing who is modifying it?
Anyone can see it, log in to write to it.
thats how it works. Then to see matched companies, an email is all that is required for registration to be able to create a profile (past and current employers) and then have Genotrope create a graph of related companies which show up on the find page.
Try to get past needing to create a profile. Let the user enter as much data as necessary and save it in the session. If they like what they see they can decide to create a profile.