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by carlosdp 2247 days ago
If I can just offer one bit of feedback, if you just type any email and password in the "Sign in / Register" page, it just creates an account for you if it doesn't exist.

There's a ton of reasons you don't want that, and should probably have a separate "sign up" flow for email/password login. Here's a few:

1. It's not at all clear you can actually do that. One guy in the comments below thinks you can only sign up using Github/Gitlab/etc.

2. Many of us have multiple emails, what if I don't remember what email I used for your service? Every time I try the wrong one, it'll just create a separate account, and it'll take me a few minutes to realize this isn't my account, but I just created a new one.

3. No double "password confirmation". Some sites skip this step now, so I guess it's not required, but not having it is part of why people will think this isn't a sign up field.

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That makes a lot of sense, thanks for pointing this out! I assumed that asking people to verify their emails would be enough but it never hurts to make things clear.

I'll make those changes as soon as possible.

Yeah, I was extremely confused at not finding a way to sign up with just email, and was about to leave when I saw this comment.