New Art Site

[psychoelmo]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:49:26 +1300, Pizbit <pizbit at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:13:46 -0400, William Ingram <will at lunarpages.com> wrote:
> > The registration requirement, is a simple email.
> >
> > I am doing this, because those who participate, will be given things
> > such as ubuntu-art.org mail address, and webhosting accounts.
> Ahh, makes sense to require registration for all that:) Just seems,
> dang I can never spell that word! Erm, means un-needed 'cept it ends
> in ary or something *g* to require registration for those who just
> want to quickly download a theme or image.
> 
> >
> > I will also be holding monthly contests soon, in which prizes will be
> > given.
> >
> > Another reason for this, is that I am also running a U.S. mirror for iso
> > images on this server, and I would like to gauge the bandwidth a little.
> >
> > Im am not sure why the registration is troublesome, as many sites
> > require registration to download, and certainly to upload.

> This is more a general thing than specifically aimed at your site so
> please don't take it the wrong way.
> gnome-look.org kde-look.org only require registration for voting and
> uploading I believe, all the downloading doesn't require registration.
> art.gnome.org not having registration at all it'd seem.
> Simple put it's 'yet another site' requiring registration that might
> never be used again, it gets tiring after a while. The whole basis for
> the bugmenot extension for firefox. :)
> I agree totally on registration for upload though.

agreed.

fact is, most people are turned off by mandatory registration,
particularily to browse something as trivial as desktop art or to
download a free file. nor will they care about a ubuntu-art email
address, hosting account, uploading content, contests, or anything
else that a server account actually makes sense for. all they want to
do is browse content and download what appeals to them.

registration for ppl who want an email account, hosting account, or
will upload content makes sense. requiring registration of everybody
who wants to browse past the index page does not.