[tbran]

I also recently signed up, and totally agree that it was a little bit of a PITA.

I will say, however, that a lot of the difficulty appears to be tied to the privacy aspects. I think it's the only service I checked out that didn't require an email or phone number to sign up. I think the privacy/ease of signup trade-off is okay right now, and I also think that Riot is trying to make it better.

Also, I'm successfully using it with non-tech-oriented family and it's been quite good!