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Re:How GitHub No Longer Works by Macha on Thursday November 14, 2013 @06:52PM (#6736660)
The only one I recall it being mandatory on is Quora. Most offer Facebook as an alternative.

And as a result, I never used Quora.

Re:How GitHub No Longer Works by aryastark on Thursday November 14, 2013 @07:16PM (#6736791)
Spotify was doing it when I tried to join. They apparently changed it later, to not require Facebook. But, you know, first impressions being what they are, I'll never be a subscriber. Trust is hard to recover once lost. Guess Google is going to find that out the hard way.
Re:How GitHub No Longer Works by Semaphor on Saturday November 23, 2013 @11:58AM (#6786531)
Oh, it works without FB again? I joined when it was new but never used it much (niche musical taste). When I tried to login again a few (4-12) months ago, it wanted to force me to use FB so I just started ignoring them altogether.
Re:How GitHub No Longer Works by codezero on Friday November 15, 2013 @12:28AM (#6737899)
You can join Quora with email only, Gmail auth, or Twitter.