Oh wow, glad I saw the HN bots tweeeting that this was on the front page. (co-founder here).
I'm sure people will be frustrated that there's a login gate. We don't like it either, but we had some members of ISIS come in and try to wreak havoc, and it was hard to follow their IPs, so we started requiring accounts so we could hellban them. Hopefully that's a temporary measure.
We're learning there's lots we still need to fix and improve, but I'd love to hear your comments.
I'm sure people will be frustrated that there's a login gate. We don't like it either, but we had some members of ISIS come in and try to wreak havoc, and it was hard to follow their IPs, so we started requiring accounts so we could hellban them. Hopefully that's a temporary measure.
We're learning there's lots we still need to fix and improve, but I'd love to hear your comments.