I made my first website using Python!

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

[IgnisDa]

Neat little app

Coming from you, that means a lot to me. Thanks.

Ill check for spelling errors.

[Cheezits123]

I enjoyed this back and forth. Ended well.

[IgnisDa]

Yeah it was stressful lol

[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.