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The signup you need is a Microsoft account. This is the same account you use for Xbox Live, hotmail/outlook, etc. We have found most people already have these accounts. It also works with organizational accounts so a good number of college email addresses work if your university has taken the time to set it up. Plenty of university professors have been trying out our platform with their classes. They have had little issues with the login barrier. The user that posted before me is correct that this is a calculated decision. Some of it is for security considerations but also just so we can return a user to their previous content and not have to field questions on 'where did my files go' when they weren't logged in before and so they didn't persist.

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