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6 pointsashleyhindle4 comments

Howdy!

I made this this morning in around 6 hours from domain availability to 'launch' and I'll be writing a blog post about that soon.

See if you can become the King of Gif Fight Club!

What's with the creepy, invasive Twitter tie-in?

Hi Astrodust,

Twitter is there for authentication so you can't 'vote hack' as easily - it was also much easier to integrate than a full user account system/email verificatoin.

Also, somebody else mentioned this (in a less abrasive way) - what is it about the Twitter auth that's so creepy and invasive?

For me, I'm not a Twitter user and would rather not be a Twitter user, so your app is instantly inaccessible.

Also, I fail to see why this would need to be able to read my tweets or those who I follow, assuming I even am a Twitter user.

I suppose it's not much worse than relying on Facebook or Google to authenticate, but it's not like it wouldn't be hard to create a bunch of Twitter accounts to vote hack with. Plus, let's be honest here: it's a site where you vote on funny moving pictures. This isn't the bloody U.S. Presidential Election; if you're worried about vote hacking at this stage, you're probably overthinking things.

Just my two cents/pence/$FRACTIONAL_CURRENCY.

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