Ask YC: Activation on User Registration, important or a hurdle ?
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Don't do it unless it's an extreme case where you really have to.
We left it out. We wanted the user experience to be as frictionless as possible. Get people on your site as quickly and painlessly as possible would be my suggestion.
We left it out and haven't been bitten by it once. I'm not trying to tempt the evil eye, just give a data point.
On the signup form point out benefits they will recieve e.g. value-added newsletters (not spammy but of something they will want) and they will take more care to ensure they reg with correct details.
If users can clearly see or already find value in a site, they will reg with real details that don't need to be verified/activated by email.
Leave it out unless the other option is a CAPTCHA that makes me think harder than I should :-)
Leave it out. It annoys most people now.
Do you think it is important to have an activation email send on User Registration to activate and account. If you were look at a mass user base site which way would you go?
thanks