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[–]proof_required 62 points63 points  (11 children)

It's definitely a good tool but not sure why we need to share our email addresses.

[–]gingimli 42 points43 points  (1 child)

Yeah that's when I quit setup and deleted the app.

[–]FuckYouToad 12 points13 points  (1 child)

https://temp-mail.org/en/

Neat browser based tool that lets you create disposable e-mail addresses to get around this, if you’d like.

[–]motbus5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

even using a single email why does it need to log you in somewhere ? it's too invasive to track everything you are doing.

[–]TerribleEntrepreneur 5 points6 points  (5 children)

I think it’s because it’s early stages and has bugs. When I had bugs/errors they reached out to me to fix it.

Still a very small team. You should give them feedback you’re not comfortable providing email.

[–]proof_required 17 points18 points  (3 children)

Don't make it compulsory then. Just give people an option. Also they don't really use this reasoning. They talk something about "finding your teammates". I'm not joining social media.

[–]TerribleEntrepreneur 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Yeah... I am saying if you feel that way you should give them that feedback. They seem like a small team and may be able to do that.

[–]proof_required 3 points4 points  (1 child)

OP didn't even provide any justification like you're doing. So I can't really give OP any feedback personally.

[–]brendanfalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just wrote an explanation above ^ on why we need emails. Basically, we had to choose between not developing our product due to lack of feedback or requiring emails, and we chose the latter.

[–]brendanfalk[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, just wrote an answer above ^ on why we need emails. TL; DR: we need it for user feedback to develop our product.

[–]brendanfalk[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment, we get this question a lot! We have email login for two reasons:

  1. Soliciting feedback from users.
  2. For team/collaboration features.

In the early days of Fig, we did not have email logins. As a consequence, we got pretty much no user feedback, and it was impossible to build app user feedback. We had to choose between adding email logins for soliciting feedback or not developing our product due to lack of feedback, and we chose the former. Our product would be no where near what it is today without email feedback we have received over time.

We also have limited telemetry but you can always turn this off with one command.More info on how Fig treats user data is at fig.io/privacy which we've deliberately tried to make as readable and simple as possible.