[fsav]

OK so the registering process should now be much easier (for better or for worse -- we'll deal with misuse as it shows up, as you said). It's not as good your comment and shimon's propose, but it should at least be much faster: no activation, direct to profile.

[TimothyFitz]

This is why I <3 HN.

Go to a website, comment on it and watch your feedback be used to evolve the website... in under half an hour! There are even comment threads where PG has a <5min read-hack-deploy-announce cycle on HN itself.

[fsav]

Well I still wanted to smoke test it locally before deploying the change, so < 5 mins would have been a bit hard :P