Forcing people to register every time you click on a story link is ridiculous, pointless and hugely frustrating. Pissing off potential early adopters with this sort of weak user experience is exactly how *not* to build a userbase. And, to be perfectly blunt, it's as embarrassing as it is plain stupid in this day and age. I'm not going to give a service any personal details until I'm happy I like what it has to offer in the first place. - Pete via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Dude (pete), sorry. we had to make a choice -- go beta yesterday when we felt like the service was ready for more users to give us feedback on features, or wait 2 weeks more to get rid of all the registration requirements that we had built up during alpha. We'll be making this as light an experience as possible w no forced reg in the coming weeks. the good thing actually is it has enabled us to grow nicely past 24 hrs without being entirely killed. - Jason Goldberg