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Yep, it's a Ning thing. I'll see if I can cut out some of the signup options, thanks for the feedback.

EDIT: Just removed b-day, gender, and location. Thanks again, sorry for the poor 1st impression.

Hmmm, it's still asking for birthday and gender when I try to re-register.

Strange, I just tried to register as as new user and the only options were for username, password, and birthday. I think b-day is mandatory for legal reasons around online child protection laws.

It asked for gender and location on the second page of the registration. Now that I look at it again, it's not mandatory; but that's not very obvious.

Anyways, cool idea, it's just a shame that Ning's signup process is so convoluted.

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