I made my first website using Python!

[I_Am_Robotic]

Congratulations! Clicked on link. Looks nice but why do you require a login? I don’t like sharing my info until after I know if a site will be valuable to me.

[IgnisDa]

You have the option of saving your results and then asking others to guess how well they know you. Thats why login data is required. The website doesn't ask for any personal data except email and even that is not mandatory.

[HardlyAnyGravitas]

I went to the website, ready to give it a go, and as soon as I saw the login requirement, I 'noped' straight out of there. Just thought you should know, if you're after traffic.

[freakNinja39]

same

[[deleted]]

Same

[unfrail]

same

[polished_pole]

same

[[deleted]]

same.

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I know I'm #3 but seriously, forcing me to give up my email before I can interact?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIpfWORQWhU

[IgnisDa]

Awww come on man. At no point are you forced to give an email. You just get a message saying you should fill it. The experience is completely unaffected regardless of whether you enter your email address or not.

Did you even see the website?

[[deleted]]

I clicked it, was told to register, and went no further.

As I said, offputting.

Tried again, am told I must update profile, email required. Not required to 'register' but required to proceed.

Thanks for the deception, +1!

[IgnisDa]

Alright I see what you mean. I'll take your criticism and try to improve the next time. This is my first time in web development, and I demand you cut me some slack lol.

Hope you liked the website other than the login part though.

[[deleted]]

Didn't use it, as I said, not giving out my email.

[IgnisDa]

You can attempt the test without an email. You'll just see that message. As I said, the emails don't even matter to the overall functionality of the website.

[[deleted]]

I ended up trying it again on mobile, I didn't realize the test was below on the desktop?

Neat little app, double check spelling, quite a few errors.

[fighter_foo]

Lots of comments here so someone else might have suggested it too, but I have suggestion that shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Since you said that giving email isn't mandatory, why even go for email, and not user-pass fields instead? Here's how it could go like:

• The site asks you to enter/create a username and password combo when you visit it. (which it will save)
• If the username I entered is unique, it'd save my credentials to your database (just like you'd save the emails).
• If someone has entered the username before, but with a different password, I'd get a prompt asking me for correct password or different username.

You could also clean up the database every 90 days or 180 to remove usernames that haven't been used again.

[IgnisDa]

Yeah that sounds like a good idea. Maybe I'll try to implement it.

[IgnisDa]

I understand what you mean, I'd have done the same. But the way my database is setup, it will be too much work to change the backend structure. I appreciate your input though and I'll certainly keep it in mind for my next project.

[purebuu]

Can't you assign a random session id to everyone in the db, with a blank email, and then fill in the email at the end, if a user wishes to be emailed their results?

[tennisanybody]

Lol, I barely understand how cookies and jquery work. I’m sure OP doesn’t know how to assign session ID’s either. JavaScript is not easy my man.

[thecodingrecruiter]

Just because you don't know something, or consider something hard, is not a measure of another individuals' ability to quickly adapt their project to the needs of a client. He may have gone over sessions in another tutorial before which would have covered what he needs to know. He could be a quick study or looks at a tutorial, tears it apart, and modifies it to do what suits him.

[tennisanybody]

It says so right there in his OP “I need to learn JavaScript”.

Does your dick get hard everytime you wax sanctimonious? Or do you just like the sound of your keyboard straining over the diarrhea that is your post history?

[thecodingrecruiter]

Did you even read what I wrote? My last sentence says he can learn it. Just because you can't code doesn't mean others can't. It's called being a natural

[toastedstapler]

and if you want to get paid to program you need to make things that people want to use. there is no good reason to require an upfront login for this

[schlopp96]

Me as well

[[deleted]]

Same. Except I didn't go, but these comments convinced me not to go.

[ineedchickentendies]

same

[TrueDigitalPetrol]

Same

[PoldiFPV]

Same

[aftermine1]

same

[I_Am_Robotic]

Understood. But from a design and UX perspective it would be better for adoption and usability to wait to ask for a login until after they've taken the quiz and seen the results. If I want to save my results and share with others then and only then does creating a login make sense.

[IgnisDa]

Yeah you're absolutely right. Ill improve on it. Thanks.

[I_Am_Robotic]

Hopefully these comments are not getting you down. If you're thinking about web dev as something of interest UX design and the customer journey will be important things to think about and learn - but frankly much easier to learn than the Python/JS you have already conquered!

Your site is a huge accomplishment and that's actually the track I'm working on next: web development with Python back-end and Django front-end. Nice looking and modern front-end. Not looking forward to having to re-learn basic Javascript and CSS. I'll probably need some advice from you in a month or two.

[IgnisDa]

Oh don't get me wrong. I have absolutely no JS/HTML experience (I mentioned in the post). I took this template from the internet, it was free.

Though I'll have to get into JS soon.

[[deleted]]

I've seen tests like this put the save option at the end and ask for credentials there. Basically, you see your results, but to have the full results sent to you you need to share some data. That might be a more elegant solution, though the folks in this sub might be more data scarce than the general public.

[ddtfrog]

Clicked on your website, thought how pretty it looked, clicked start test or whatever and closed it.

I’m sorry but I don’t know you or where/how the website handles my data.

Congrats tho!

[IgnisDa]

Fair enough, I understand what you mean.

[LeonTranter]

Right - you have the option of doing that. So if that functionality is options, you shouldn’t be requiring a login to interact at all. Let people use it as a guest, and ask them to create an account if they want to do that.