[daveloyall]

    > To post or comment on Twincl site, just login with a
    > verified Facebook account. Alternatively, you may register
    > a new Twincl account, and subscribe to the membership with
    > a minimal fee. (Our point is to make the account less
    > disposable, which we believe is a key to pleasant community
    > experiences.)

$5/year or $2/three months.

If you live forever, that's an infinite amount of money.

cf. metafilter, which charges $5 one time to prevent disposable accounts.

[arthurtw]

You can use a verified Facebook account to join Twincl site for free. Ideally, we should use our own SMS verification process to prevent disposable accounts - maybe when we have money. Since Facebook does a decent job of fraud account prevention, we leverage their work for now.

Thanks for your comment. We'll take that into account.

[daveloyall]

I fully understand your desire to use FB to vet user identities.

I like the idea of twincl. Keep up the good work!

The overlap between the set of people that like twincl and the set of people that don't like facebook may be large.

You know what accounts I don't mind linking? These:

    * https://gitlab.com/u/sebboh
    * https://github.com/daveloyall/
    * https://stackexchange.com/users/2248650/daveloyall
    * https://plus.google.com/113507487161654826344

...Not that I'm a fan of G+, but I am happy to use that google account identity to sign into other services.

It's because that google account identity is tied to a work email account, too... You know what doesn't go on there? What I do on the weekends. That ends up on facebook even if I don't put it there... So leave that account alone.

[daveloyall]

It's worth noting that I am permitted more than one Google account, but not more than one Facebook account.

...There MAY be some rule about not having more than one G+ account, right? But, I don't really use that service. It was only included here because it's the only "profile" page I know of for that account.

[arthurtw]

Exactly. That's why we did not use Google identity service. Google accounts are disposable, while Facebook enforces one-account-per-person policy.

[daveloyall]

Weird. I don't know a solution.

It remains true that I refuse to use my Facebook account on the public internet. For the same reason that I don't 'friend' the whole internet. :)

Anyway, check if these accounts https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/accounts/ can log into your service. Cheers!

[fweespeech]

> Exactly. That's why we did not use Google identity service. Google accounts are disposable, while Facebook enforces one-account-per-person policy.

Facebook fails hilariously at enforcement of this.

[dragonwriter]

> Google accounts are disposable, while Facebook enforces one-account-per-person policy.

Facebook might claim to, but they don't do much of a job of it.

[arthurtw]

At least you must be careful when using multiple Facebook accounts from the same computer. It might cause your main Facebook account locked, and take you a while to have Facebook unlock it for you.

[pjc50]

You might live forever, but few social network websites do.