Agreed. I got rid of my FB account years ago.. and can't use it. What a shame.. least they can do is add a link below to sign up the regular way. Don't give me "we don't got time" excuse.. this isn't like building an iPhone app but not an Android version
No offense but the crowd they're targeting is less the HN crowd. Almost all of the people I know (18 - 25) still spend a lot of time on Facebook and most of their time on the internet is spent on Facebook. They have all of their likes on the service so as a launch strategy it makes a lot of sense to target FB rather than just email so the user doesn't have to input hundreds of likes.
If only there was an online service to automatically log music I listen to and perhaps tracks I particularly love.
Hey Jarek, Using last.fm is a great idea! We'll add that as an option for users signing up without Facebook and use it to pre-populate the artists you follow based on your most scrobbled artists on Last.fm.
Other ways to sign up are coming very soon, we just wanted to get this out the door as soon as it was usable.
I hear you! We've heard this from others as well. We will definitely be adding more ways to login than just Facebook.