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Re:Login Screen – behind the scenes by bluesaunders on Thursday October 11, 2012 @11:24AM (#4641168)
The gravatar is a nice touch, but it works even if my email is not signed up with your service, which felt a bit misleading.

I got the sense of, "this is the correct email address to login with because the system recognized me" when in fact it was the wrong email.

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Re:Login Screen – behind the scenes by simontabor on Thursday October 11, 2012 @11:46AM (#4641292)
Good point - the reason for it is we wanted it to be entirely independent of our users db for security/privacy reasons (and simplicity!)
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