Hi beigelightning
Thanks again for your feedback. We are happy to announce that we took your suggestion and added signup through just email. Please go to https://sharecred.com/signup.
We are eager to hear your impressions. Please sign-up and let us know your thoughts.
Agreed that there is a catch-22 here (as I would imagine with any social network - if our friends are not on the network, what is the point in me joining?). As I mentioned in my post, it took me a while to join Facebook. And how long LinkedIN has been around, it feels like only the last couple of years people have been 'regular' on LinkedIN.
Having said the above, I wholeheartedly agree with you. In fact, we are working on a Wordpress plugin to let users cross-post to ShareCred simultaneously. RSS could be another great way, but we will have to work out ownership.
Frankly, I am glad that the discussion is about how to attract users than 'the concept does not make sense' - which was the first hurdle we wanted to get through.
Now that we are through it, I truly appreciate any ideas you (and others) can share.
Actually, in my earlier response, I missed the term 'mixed' in your comment.
Having realized that, I agree with you. I think it is right to characterize what we are doing at ShareCred as a mix of HN and Glipho (of course with additional features, enabled by the combination).
Theoretically, I agree with you. But since the conversation itself (comments, related posts, recognizing merit, etc.) is not the focus of Twitter - it is a good tool for emitting news, but not built as a platform/environment for meaningful dialogue or eco-system.
Point taken. We definitely will get a registration page going.
But please kindly note that there is not going to be any connection between your LinkedIN profile and your ShareCred activity. It is used only for login.
The reason we felt limiting to LinkedIN logins was a good idea is that it is one way to ensure quality participation. But now, we understand the concerns.
HN is very good for emitting news, but not necessarily built for a meaningful expression or format. HN serves its purpose well, but does not have the provisions you would want in a network - following topics, authors, seeing the top posts in an area, so on.
That is a very good observation. We do feel that Glipho is close to our use cases, but not where we want to take it ultimately. I think some fundamentals are different between us.
hi
Thank you very much for your feedback. Point taken. The reason (not saying it is the right one) we started with only LinkedIN was that it is seen as one way to keep the quality of the participation.
Trust us (you can ask - what is that?), there is not going to be any connection between your LinkedIN account and your ShareCred activity. It is just a way to login.
Having said that, we will seriously consider opening up registration.