[delinka]

Gah. Yet another site that wants access to a social media account without explaining why.

OK, you had a "cool" idea. Took you a few hours to implement it. Now that you've implemented, please write some documentation (in the form of introductory information on your web site) explaining that you'll be requesting access to my Twitter/Facebook/WTFE account and why. And, no, typical marketing bullshit is not acceptable (e.g. "So that we can offer you the best possible experience" is not a good reason to want permission to post as me)

[Trufa]

In all fairness, if I am meeting with random people for lunch I would like to at least see who they are on the web, it is not any sort of guarantee but it's good to at least have an idea.

[siavash]

We found it way too difficult to find new and interesting people who wanted to discuss the same topics as we did. So we created this during a quick hack at http://startuplocation.com/hack just to get the discussion started. However, if you are curious as to how and what this does with credentials here you go: https://github.com/siavashg/lunchspire

[delinka]

Pointing me to the source as documentation is just lazy. Entice me to use your project. Excite me about your goals. Interest me in looking at your code.

Besides, from a security standpoint, I have no idea whether the code in that repository is actually the code running on the site.

[ThomPete]

Ligthen up. It's a project done in 6 hours. Judge it at that. Why do you need to be so hostile? Don't use it if you don't want to.

And no I have no affiliation with the guys and think it's totally fine to be critical, but give the guy a break you speak to them as if they are immature brats.

[derrida]

Why don't you ask for just an email address?

[indiecore]

To be quite honest it was probably mostly because he did it in six hours and adding a few lines to validate against facebook/twitter was quicker than setting up a whole account stack.