User Registration Need Not Be Inevitable
Steve Outing,
Editor, Publisher,
Jun 25, 2004
I have long complained about user registration in news sites - readers may have notice that (with the New York Times excepted) I do not link from OLDaily to sites that require user registration. My reasoning is that user registration pages break the trust that the reader has to have with the integrity of links - when you follow a link, you should go where you expected to go. Registration pages break this trust, since they interrupt your access to the story you thought you were about to read. I understand that newspapers need revenue, and that they want to provide custom services to readers, but both objectives could be accomplished by supporting voluntary registration. Anyhow, author Steve Outing takes up the charge, arguing against this trend in his column.
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