Your post was excellent, I was just considering the same. Creating a real account instead of just using the shared secret. But now it seems it isn't worth of doing. - Thanks! What I hate even more than registering? Sites which can't be properly accessed and evaluated before registering. Hacker News should redirect all non logged in users to this login page from all pages: https://news.ycombinator.com/newslogin?whence=news This is site X, we're really cool, register now. Exactly same rule applies to all of those crappy mobile apps. I want to know what it is all about well enough, before installing it, or I won't install it at all.